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annual expenditure for all purposes of about $19,000. The 

 total enrollment of students is 406. The following statements 

 taken from the State Board of Control Report 6 show the scope 

 and character of the institution : 



"Glenville State Normal School. 

 "Historical. 



"The Glenville Normal owes its existence to an act of the Legisla- 

 ture, passed February 19, 1872, which provided as a condition of its 

 establishment that the citizens of the town provide suitable grounds 

 and buildings. This condition was soon met, but pending the purchase 

 of a building, the school was opened in the old court house on the 24th 

 of January, 1873. Later a two-story frame dwelling house was ac- 

 quired and remodeled, and for several years the school was carried on 

 in this buiMing. In 1885 the Legislature appropriated $5,000 for a 

 new building and a neat brick structure was erected on the site of 

 the old dwelling house. In 1893 another appropriation was secured 

 and the building enlarged to its present dimensions. In 1909, as the 

 attendance of the school had increased about three-fold during the 

 preceding four years, the old accommodations were found to be inade- 

 quate; so an appropriation of $35,000.00 was made for a new building, 

 which was completed and ready for occupancy in March, 1912. 



"Grounds. 



"The site on which these buildings is located consists of about 

 four acres of ground lying on the hillside north of the town of Glen- 

 vi'le, and within the corporate limits of the town. A part of this land 

 was acquired in 1885, when the first building was erected, and the 

 remainder was purchased in 1909 by the citizens of Glenville as a site 

 for the building then about to be erected. This purchase was made 

 with the expectation that the purchasers would ultimately be reim- 

 bursed by the State for their expenditure. This was done subsequently, 

 and the State Board of Control paid $2,361.75 for the lot, which is 88V 2 

 feet front and 321 feet depth. 



"Buildings. 



"There are two buildings, both used for school purposes. Both are 

 two-story bricks with basements. The equipment of the old building 

 is more or less worn and out of date, but the new buiMing is well 

 furnished with modern appliances. The chemical and physical labora- 

 tories, library and auditorium are in the new building. 



"In accordance with the appropriation of $37,000, made by the 

 Acts of 1913, for buildings and land, it being understood that the build- 

 ing to be erected out of this appropriation would be a dormitory, the 

 State Board of Control has, after several months spent in negotiations, 

 secured a site for the new building, which adjoins the present prop- 

 erty. This site consists of the Craddock property and the Lynn lot 

 immediately behind it. It was so late in this year before the site 

 could te secured that there has been no time to begin the construction 



"Third Annual Report, State Board of Control, pp. 689-690 and 696, 

 Part II; 1914. 



