The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1912-09-06
STATE NOR
NAL OPENING
First Session Begins Mon
day 18th.
Auspicious Beginning Panned-out
look Most FIattering-OutIine of
Work for the Year-BulIdinq
and Equipment-Strong
Faculty.

The first session of the Tennessee
State Normal will begin Monday,
September 16, at IL m. The outlook
at this time is that the enrolment
ON the first day will be to the full
capacity of the institution. The out
look is very flattering. The School
Bulletin just issued has the following
to say about the school:
The establishment of the Tennes-
see Agricultural and Industrial State
Normal School for Negroes was au-
thorized by an act of the State Legis-
lature in 1909 under what is known
as the General Education Bill which
provided an annual appropriation for
the maintenance Of such school for
the colored people of the State.
The funds for the purchase of site,
buildings and equipment have been
derived from the following sources:
CD An accumulation of the an.
nual State appropriation since 1909.
(2) Davidson County's contribu-
ton of $4,000.
(3) Land for a portion of the site
and other valuable considerations by
Nashville citizens.
Control and Location.
The general management and con.
troll Of the Colored Normal, as in the
case of all Of Tennessees State Nor
NAL schools, are vested in the State
Board of Education and it is due to
their wisdom and liberal spirit that
this school is so happily located and
its material equipment Is so thor
Cughly modern and well appointed
for the purposes it is to serve.
The site selected by the Board is
one of the most desirable around
Nashville. The campus which is in
cluded in the corporate limits of the
city begins at the intersection of Cen
tennial Boulevard and 35th Avenue.
1t is on high ground amid healthy
surroundings and commands magnif-
cent views.
Electricity, water and car service
are supplied by the city.
Hadley Park, recently purchased
by the city for her colored citizens
is within short walking distance from
the school grounds.
Buildings and Equipments.
The buildings include a main, or
Academic building, two dormitories
for women and men, the trades build
ing with heating plant, residence for
the President, two barns and several
farm houses.
The main building is a modern
brick and stone structure, three
stories in height. In it are the Of
ffices, laboratories, recitation rooms,
library, reading room, Auditorium,
dining hall, kitchen and laundry-in
all, forty rooms.
The Auditorium with gallery will
accommodate seven hundred persons.
The class rooms are furnished with
modern desks and recitation seats
and the laboratories will be full
equipped with all needed apparatus
and supplies.
The Industrial Training Depart
mint occupies commodious quarters.
The Manual Training rooms WI be
fitted mp with the most mod IN emf
tial equipment, and the students in
this department will be taught to
make additional equipment as it is
needed.
The dormitories for women and
men are each three stories in height,
and built of brick and stone Each
contains two parlors, five bathrooms,
thirty-three large bedrooms With
closets. Every room is an outside
room and is furnished with shades,
dresser, table, chairs, iron bedstead,
springs, mattress and washstand
complete.
The dining-room kitchen and laun-
dry are supplied with modern equip
ment and are sanitary in every way.
All the buildings are lighted with
electricity and supplied with water
service from the city. They are
heated with steam from the central
heating plant on the grounds.
The whole property including cam
pus, buildings and equipment covers
one hundred sixty-hve acres and
represents an estimated valuation Of
two hundred thousand dollars which
the State is investing for the educa-
ton Of its colored young men and
women.
Education in Nashville.
The City Of Nashville is justly
called the "Athens of the South"
Among it's hundred or more insti-
tutions Of learning, which provide op-
portunity for all phases Of education
and of every grade from the Kinder
garten to the University, are includ-
ed the following excellent schools
for the Negro race:
Fisk University, Roger Williams
University, Walden University, Me-
harry Medical College, Academy and
Industrial School of the Immaculate
Mother, Daniel Hand Training
School and The Fireside School.
It is in such an educational atmos-
phere that the State Normal is To-