The Green Forest tribune., 1904-02-06
THE NORMAL PROSPECTUS.
Prof. w. D. Crawford Issues His
 Formal Announcement.

Long live the good school
 Giving out year by year
 Recruits to true manhood
 And womanhood dear.
 Brave boys, modest maidens,
 In beauty sent forth,
 The living epistles
 And proof of it's worth.
 On the fifth day of September, 1904, there will be opened in Green Forest, Ark, a Normal School and Business College. This school proposes to be thor oughly up to date in every re- spect, ability and scholarship of Faculty, completeness of equip ment, and thoroughness and ex- tent of the course offered
 Four departments will be main- tained this year, Preparatory, Normal, Scientific and Business. Special work will be given in Shorthand, Typewriting, Instru- mental Music, and Elocution.
 The Normal Department is in- tended to fit teachers for practi- cal work in the school room and will be in charge of 8 teacher of twenty years experience, grad uate under Dr. Baldwin, author of ''Art of School Management" !" Psychology, methods in teach ing, Reviews, ,and practical school work will be presented in an in- teresting as we'll as instructive manner.
 An experienced teacher from the Chicago University has been secured to take charge of the Scientific Department, and ample laboratory facilities will be pro- vided for the teaching of Chem istry, Physics, Astronomy, and other Natural Sciences.
 A graduate in Shorthand and Typewriting will give thorough work in that department. In fact each teacher will be a spec Hist in his work and fully alive to the interests of the pupils and school.
 A library of we'll selected vol umes to the number of moresthan a thousand including Encyclope- dias, Dictionaries Literature, and works of reference will be at the disposal of students and is a feature that should not be over- looked.
 Students of English and Amer ican Literature. United States, English, and General History, Geography, and kindred subjects will find much assistance in this library.
 The school will be open all the year round without vacation and students may enter at any time.
 A large brick building con- taining ten rooms is in course of construction and such addi- tional buildings will be erected as the needs of the school may require. Everything will be new and clean and thoroughly mod ern in every respect.
 Green Forest is situated on the St. Louis and North Arkansas Railway in the midst of beautiful hills and mountains, surrounded by the best fruit growing coun- try in America. The climate is almost perfection and no healtier spot can be found.
 No saloons or other places of vice exist in this part of the country, and the citizens are hos pitable, home loving, church. supporting. Always leading in in educational work, Green Forest is taking a deep interest in the Ozark Normal as to insure success from the start.
 The rates of tuition and board will both be as low as is consist ent with the quality furnished. Work can be given to few earn est students to pay part of their expenses and the only aristoc- racy recognized in the school will be the "Aristocracy of Work.''
 A catalogue giving course of study, rates, faculty, and all de- tails will be ready to mail some- time in May. For further infor- nation concerning the school 1 on1,l1r t0