Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-08-16
IOWA STATE NEWS.
SCHOOL WANTS COIN.
The State Normal school Institution
Asks the State for Money for
Use at Cedar Falls.

President Homer II. Seerley, Of the
Iowa State normal school at Cedar
Falls, has filed the thirteenth biennial
report of that institution with Gov.
Shaw, the most remarkable feature
being the showing made in regard to
the growth of the institution. In
1857 there were 4S5 students and nine
teachers; In 1890 the students num-
bered 6S7 and the teachers Ia. while
In 1898 ths students were sSs and the
teachers -. In 1901 the school Il
able to report 2,017 students, or more
than any other educational institu-
tion in the state, and no less then 40
teachers.
President Seerley reports that the
auditorium for the training depart
ment for which the Twenty-eighth
general assembly appropriated $780,
200, is now nearing completion, and
that portion of it will be finished
and ready for occupancy on the first
OF the coming month.
For the first time in the history of
the normal school 1T is supplied with
sufficient number of class rooms to
enable its work to be conducted in
the proper manner. The building,
which is soon tc be finished, contains
six society halls, chapel seating
1850 people, and SO class rooms.
President Seerley asks the state for
the following appropriations:
Payment Of teachers annually, addi-
Library. for two years. ............... 1900
summer school for two years......... 1900
salary OF librarian and two assist
Military Instruction and expenses. i.s0o
Improvement OF grounds. ............ $500
Erection of chemical and physical
Laboratories ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 1900
Erection of gymnasium. ............. 1900
Erection of library building $1,000
Total asked for .................... SIG, 100
The report states that every care is
, taken to limit the enrolment of stu
, dents to actual teachers, or those
who intend to become teachers. This
is emphasized, because the normal
school remains faithful to its special
province determined by law as q
school for the instruction and train
ing of teachers in the common
schools. To give suggestive facts
concerning the students enrolled, the
school year of 19o0-19O1 has been Sc
i lected as suitable for the investiga-
ton, and 1t is shown that Of tho
2,o17 students enrolled in the teach
ers' department, 1876 had already
taught in the public schools, the av-
erage time devoted by this number
! being II terms. Mr.. Seerley points
, out that this fact enables the work
of the school to be more effective and
its results more marked, as each stu
dent who enrolls is ambitious to be-
come proficient and strong as q
teacher in all lines that are possible,
! so that he or she can occupy re-
munerative position as an educator
! after graduation.
i The management of the school call
i attention to the outcome of the effort
, to open the institution to the teachers
/ of the state for summer term Of sax
i weeks when the public schools are not
, IN session, and that this new feature
Of the work has become very popular
is shown by the fact that during the
fiscal school year the summer school
enrolled 925 students, while the year
before the enrolment was 925. But
for the few cases Of smallpox IN
Cedar Falls this year the summer en-
! roirnsnt would hape reached at least
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