Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-12-15
STATE NORMAL
NEEDS SET OUT
BY PRESIDENT
DIR. w. w. Parsons Calls for
More Buildings and Teach
ers With Higher Pay.
PLANS ASSEMBLY PLEA

(This is the second OF a series of three
articles dealing with the needs Of higher
education in Indiana and shows the prob
lens confronting the State Normal
Special to The Times.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Dec. 15.-New
buildings, higher salaries for teachers.
and more teachers are absolutely neces-
lsry to the success Of the Indiana State
Normal School here. and Of its branch at
MuneIe. DR.. W. W. Parsons, president
Of the school, declared In discussing its
needs for the future. The Legislature
viii be asked to make appropriations to
make these things possible.
conditions have very greatly changed
in recent years" DR.. Parsons said. Vast
" greater demands are made upon the
State Normal School than ever before
Not only Is the school maintaining the
parent Institution at Terre Haute, as in
former years. but it is also conducting an
extensive branch or division at Muncie.
The proceeds Of the tax for the State
Normal school are entirely inadequate
to meet its present needs. In order 20
hold its teachers, salaries must be sub
srantiaIIy increased, and to divide Its
Student-body into classes OF proper size,
many teachers should be added to the
present teaching force, both at Terre
Haute and az Muncie."
EACH SCHOOL
NEEDS MORE.
DR.. Parsons said several new buildings
are needed at each of the schools to
.reet the urgent needs Of a large student
body. He said an administration build-
ing with an auditorium large enough to
seat the entire student body is needed
at Terre Haute. He said under present
conditions It is impossible to seat more
than one-hsf, or at most three fifths, of
the students and that many are thus be-
ing denied the benefits Of daily chapel
exercises and OF lectures given the entire
school
DR.. Parsons statement follows:
The school is also in need of new.
modern welI-eQuipped gymnasiums for
men and women. The present gymna-
Sums are in che basement OF one OF
its buildings and are poorly lighted ana
ventilated, are OF insufficient size ana
not in any sense modern nor In harmony
with the demands Of modern physical
education.
Dohmitories for men and women that
shall set q standard in price and ac-
commOdstiOns are greatly needed.
TALKS ON SITUATION
AT MUNCIE.
At the eastern division, at Muncle,
the school has only one large building
for school purposes. In addition. II has
one dormitory for women, which accom-
mOdates about seventy young women
To carry on its work in an efficient
way the school needs Immediately Il
large 6Teproof library building. science
hall 4 modern well-equipped gymnasium
There exists at the eastern division. also,
the same necessity for dOrmitories as at
the parent school at Terre Haute. The
attendance at the eastern division is
uated as it is in the most populous dis
trict OF the State, Il may reasonably be
expected that this division Of the school
will increase rapidly In its attendance
from year to year. 1t has already out
grown its present quarters.
To pay the members or the faculties
living salaries and thus he able TO retain
them permanently as faculty members.
and to construct the buildings which are
absolutely necessary to carry on the
school on the high plane which il has
heretofore maintained, will require veiy
substantial increase IN the income OF
the institution. The law OF 1913 Fixed
the rate at 7 cents on each 500 Of tax
able property IN the State. The act OF
1919 authorized and instructed the State
tax board to reduce the rate SO that
the income world not be greater than IN
the previOys year.
The board nxed this rate at 2S-lO
cents for the support OF the three higher
State educational institutions. OF the pro-
ceeds OF this tax the Indiana state Nor
nal School receives one nth.
It is estimated that in the year 1871