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tion of the Institution as tlie first State Normal Scliool in Pennsylvania, on Dec. 2, IBoO. 

 The State has granted to it difterent sums ol" money, and incurred the exi>ense (.f sup- 

 plying certiticates and diplomas. 



Professor Wickersham resigned the Princii)alship in 18fi(i. and was succeeded l»y 

 Professor Edward Brooks, who has been connected with the Institution from the time 

 of its organization as a permanent school in ISoo. The prosperity of the school has 

 been so encouraging that additional buildings, costing about $28,000, were erected dur- 

 ing the past summer, (1868.) 



The Normal School buildings are large, the east front being 252 feet, and the south 

 front 160 feet, and conveniently arranged. There are boarding acconnnodat ions for 

 300, and school accommodations for 40'J students. The buildings are surrounded with 

 grounds to the extent of ten acres, which have been laid out and are used for play and 

 pleasure grounds. The new building is 90 feet long and 40 feet wide, four stories high, 

 and affords boarding accommodations for nearly a hundred more students. 



The Male and Female departments are entirely separate, each sex occupying a dilTer- 

 ent building. Botli sexes, however, meet at lectures and in recitatiims; and it is be- 

 lieved that the presence of each has a beneficial effect upon the other. 



The Institution already possesses considerable philosophical apparatus, and provision 

 has bean made to increase it. It possesses also a good cabinet of Mineralogical and 

 Geological specimens, and further contributions of this nature are solicited from its 

 friends. The ladies have a Hall 112 feet long and 30 feet wide, which is devoted to 

 gymnastic and calisthenic exercises. The gentlemen, also, have ample i)lay grounds, 

 and considerable gymnastic apparatus. 



By a recent Act of the Legislature, the following appropriations are made by the State 

 to Normal Students and Graduates: 



1. Each Student over seventeen years of age, who shall sign a paper declaring his in- 

 tention to teach in the Common Schools of the State, shall receive the sum of fifty 

 CENTS per week towards defraying the expenses of tuition and boarding. 



2. Each Student over seventeen years of age, who was disabled in the military or naval 

 service of the United States, or of Pennsylvania, or whose father lost his life in said 

 service, and who shall sign an agreement as above, shall receive the siun of one doll.\r 

 per week. 



3. Each Student who, upon graduating, shall sign an agreement to teach in 

 the Common Schools of the State two full years, shall receive the sum of fifty 



DOLLARS. 



4. Any Student to secure these benefits must attend the School at least one term of 

 twelve consecutive weeks, and receive instruction in the Theory of Teaching. These 

 benefits are to be deducted from the regular expenses of board and tuition. 



There are three courses of instruction: elementary, scientific and classical, respect- 

 ively designed to prepare teachers for Common, English High Schools, and High Schools 

 in which Greek and Latin are taught. Provision is also made in a preparatory course, 

 for students deficient in a knowledge of the most elementary branches. 



A Model School, taught chiefiy by the graduating class of the Nonnal School, is in 

 successful operation. 



Graduates in the Elementary Course are constituted Bachelors of the Elements, 

 graduates in the Scientific Course, Bachlers of the Sciences, and graduates in the Cla.ss- 

 ical Course, Bachelors of the Classics. Judicious arrangements prevail, by which, 

 after two years' successful teaching and ]irosecution of their studies, BacMors are ad- 

 vanced to Masters, and further distinguished by the corresponding professional titles of 

 Teachers of Elemental, Scientific or Classical Didactics. 



Among the attractions of tlie School are two fiourishing Literary Societies, conducted 

 by the students— the " Page "' and the "Normal." They hold weekly meetings. They 

 have together, about 2000 well selected volumes in their Libraries, all collected within 



