80 : BRaUCATION. 
$125,000. Built in the Franco-Norman ‘style, the edifice is one 
hundred and eighty feet in length, with a maximum width of ninety 
feet. It is two stories in height, and has a commodious basement 
and Mansard roof. Arranged with a large assembly room, twelve 
recitation rooms, separate apartments for library, apparatus, recep- 
tion, music, and wardrobe, this building can accommodate seven 
hundred pupils. The grounds embrace fifteen acres, and are in 
every way adapted for a State Normal School. The present number 
of students of both sexes is upward of three hundred. 
The following constitute the Faculty ; 
- Batpwin, Principal, Science and Art of Teaching, and 
Mental and Moral Science. W. P. Nason, English Language and 
Literature. J. M. Greenwoop, Mathematics, Natural Philosophy 
and Astronomy. S. M. Picker, Elocution, Logic, Book-keeping 
and Mathematics. Miss Harrie Comincs, Preceptress, Natural 
Science and Drawing. J. T. Smrru, Chemistry, Geology, History. 
Miss HELEN M. HALLIBURTON, Geography, 
LIE M. Bowen, Painting and German. Miss Mary F. Woop- 
WoRTH, Instrumental and Vocal Music. 
Non-Resident Lecturers—Professor JAMES JOHONNOT, Warrens- 
burg, Philosophy of Education. Professor G. C. SwaLiow, 
Columbia, Agriculture. Judge B Barrow, Macon City, 
Commercial Law and Political Economy. 
Assistant Teachers—Normal Students. 
THE WARRENRBURG SCHOOL, 
Was finally located and established August 10, 1872, although it 
With the 
settled location, and the reorganization of the Faculty, the School 
has been in operation temporarily since April 27, 1871. 
sets out upon a most promising and prosperous career. 
The building to be occupied in January 1873, is in the Lombard- 
Venetian style, one hundred and sixty feet long by eighty feet in 
width, four stories high, with basement and Mansard roof. This 
structure will cost about $200,000. Its general arrangement is like 
that of the Kirksville building. 
The following constitute the Faculty ; 
JAMEs JoHonNoT, Principal and Instructor in Principles and 
Methods of Teaching. L. H. CueEney, Vice-Principal and 
Instructor in History and Philosophy. HERMANN Krus1, Instruc- 
tor in Mathematics. Lucy J. Matrsy, Instructor in Language 
and Literature. Emma DICKERMAN, Instructor in Natural Science 
and Graphics (including Penmanship and Drawing). 
The sphere and object of these Schools is set forth in the follow- 
ing words, taken from the prospectus of the South Missouri, or 
Warrensburg School : 
‘* The great object of all Normal instruction is to give teachers 
a training that will make them intelligent and successsul in their 
professional work. It includes a knowledge of the branches 
taught, of the methods of teaching, and of the principles which 
underlie methods. In the organization and administration of the 
Warrensburg School, these objects will be kept constantly in view, 
and every other consideration will be subordinated to their accom- 
plishment. Pupils not prepared in the branches of science will 
first receive thorough and systematic instruction, for the purpose of 
giving them a broad basis of culture, which will enlarge their 
mental capacity, and will be of use in their future work. Instruc- 
tion in each of the branches of science will be accompanied by the . 
presentation and discussion of methods of teaching, so that students 
graduating from any study, will know the facts concerning it, the 
order in which they are arranged, the manner of presenting the 
subject, and the reasons why one method of presentation is better 
than another. 
‘‘ The principles of teaching will form the basis of the strictly 
professional course. In this course the laws of psychology will be 
objectively developed, and then applied to instruction. General 
methods, in harmony with these laws, will be devised, so that all 
systems of teaching may be founded upon intelligence. Special 
attention will be given to the natural order in the development of 
the mental faculties, to the methods of instruction best adapted to 
this order, and to the arrangement of the branches of instruction 
in conformity to the laws of mental growth. Intelligence, in 
regard to these particulars, will be considered of vital importance 
as tending, in the highest degree, to utilize mental effort, and to 
diminish waste. 
** The course of study will be ample for the double purpose of 
arousing and training the faculties of the mind, and of affording 
that knowledge which is of the greatest practical use. As the school 
has a specific object, and is limited by this object, no attempt will 
be made to rival the University in the extent and variety of the 
instruction given.’’ 
THE LINCOLN INSTITUTE, 
Originated, as a school for the education of colored people, with 
the Sixty-second Regiment United States Colored Infantry, while 
in Texas, January 1866. The regiment contributed $5,000 to the 
object. The Sixty-fifth Regiment subsequently increased this 
amount by the sum of $1,379. 
The Board of Trustees was organized June 25th, 1866, and the 
School was opened on the 17th of September following. Although 
under the immediate management of a special Board of Trustees, 
the appropriation made by the State places the School under the 
general supervision of the State Board of Education. The Bill 
constituting the Lincoln Institute a State Normal School for the 
training of colored teachers, was approved February 14th, 1870. 
The building for the accommodation of the School was occupied 
in June 1871. It is a neat, substantial brick structure, sixty by 
seventy feet, three stories high, with basement. 
The number of students in attendance is upward of one hundred. 
The following constitute the Board of Instructors: 
M. Henry Situ, A. M., Principal. Miss Atice M. GorpDon, 
First Assistant. Miss MaTitpA BLackKMar, Assistant. 
