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THE MODEL OR TRAINING SCHOOL AT THE STATE NORMAL, TERRE HAUTE, IND.

THE STATE NORMAL TRAINING SCHOOL.

On the opposite page is presented a picture of the new building for the model or training school of the State Normal at Terre Haute. It is an admirable piece of school architecture, and is probably the best and most modern school building in the State occupied by children below the high school. When it was decided to construct such a building, President Parsons inspected a large number of new buildings in the East and elsewhere, and made a careful study of the needs of the Training School with a view to combining all the excellent features of these in the new structure at Terre Haute. It therefore represents the experience and thought of the school management and the skill of the architects and builders. The drawings and specifications were made by J. F. Alexander & Son, of Lafayette, Indiana, and the main contract was awarded to H. B. Walter, of Danville, Illinois. The building stands southeast of the main building on a piece of ground bought for the purpose, and faces on Mulberry street. It is constructed of red brick with limestone trimmings, and is about one hundred by one hundred and ten feet and is four stories high, including the basement. The first story, or basement, is only slightly below the surface of the ground about it, is thoroughly concreted so that it is perfectly dry and sanitary, and is well lighted and ventilated. The new manual. training department, established with the opening of the current school year, is to occupy this entire story. On the second and third floors are eight very large, beautiful school rooms. These rooms are fully fifty per cent. larger than the average school room, made so for the reason that, in addition to the children who occupy them, the schools are to be used for purposes of observation and training by normal school students. Special pains has been taken to have each of these rooms well lighted and ventilated. Each is fitted up with closets, bookcases built into the walls, real slate blackboards, demonstration tables with electricity, water and gas, and every convenience for the most effective grade school work. In connection with each of the eight rooms is a very large, well lighted and ventilated cloak room, containing a lavatory and flowing drinking fountains. In

the basement and on the third floor are closets, wash rooms and lavatories for each of the sexes, and every care has been taken to have these well ventilated, lighted, and perfectly sanitary.

The training school has been enlarged so that it now consists of the eight grades each in a separate room and in charge of a skillful, professionally trained teacher. On the second floor are two sets of large double offices to be used by the principal of the training school and the professor of observation and methods in the normal school. The building has wide, roomy halls on each floor, modestly but beautifully decorated, well lighted by electricity and perfectly ventilated. The building is equipped with the Andrews & Johnson heating and ventilating system, which meets perfectly the demands for heat and pure air. The fresh air is taken from the outside and by means of an unusually large fan is driven over steam heated coils through very large galvanized iron ducts into the various rooms and halls of the building. By means of these large warm air ducts and equally large foul air vents, it is estimated that the air can be changed in every room within six minutes. The automatic heat regulating system secures a uniform temperature, no matter what the outside weather conditions may be.

The fourth story is as yet uncompleted. It is to contain a handsome, large auditorium for the children which will comfortably seat the entire school, and in addition, three rooms which can be used in the future for class or lecture rooms.

The greatest care has been exercised to secure excellent plumbing, and this throughout is thoroughly sanitary and modern. The entire building is finished in dark golden oak, and with its wide halls and broad, easy stairs is unusually handsome. As the school is designed to be as far as possible a model school for the use of the normal school students preparing to be teachers, every effort was made to have this new building comport with the idea of the school, that is, be in every way a model school building. Thus far the building alone has cost in the neighborhood of $75.000, and it will require about $10,000 to complete it, thus making the entire cost of the building and ground about $100,000.

This school is the regular Eleventh District of the Terre Haute public schools. No effort is made to pick out special pupils to constitute the training school. The idea is to have as nearly as possible such conditions in these schools as would be met by the teacher when he goes out into the actual schools of the State to do his work. The schools for observation and practice are actual schools, and every problem is encountered that the teacher is expected to meet when he becomes a real teacher in the public schools and is thus thrown upon his own resources. The schools are open to all students for observation and study, and before the student graduates he is required to spend a prescribed period in actual practice, under competent skilled direction and criticism, in the various grades composing this school. With this new equipment, the State Normal School offers the very best possible facilities for thorough, careful preparation for the work of teaching.

That the building and school are considered models is evidenced by the fact that already the teachers from many surrounding towns and townships have made visits for the purpose of inspecting the building and studying the work of the various grades.

We are in receipt of a beautiful booklet issued by W. W. Richardson, A. G. P. A. Pennsylvania Lines, Indianapolis, containing interesting descriptions of the various attractions that will be observed by teachers, students and others who may join the mid-winter outing to Cuba. The excursion will be conducted by Dr. Robert A. Hall and Edgar T. Forsyth, of Indianapolis, the former being connected with the Manual Training High School, and the latter with the Shortridge High School. The party will leave Indianapolis December 22d and will return January 2d. We hope that it may be convenient for many teachers to join this excursion, as a single ticket will cost only $75.00. It will include the following: Transportation for the entire journey; standard Pullman sleepers Indianapolis to Mobile and return; meals; an early morning street car ride over the "Highlands" of Birmingham; a visit to the old Capitol of the Confederacy at Montgomery; transportation, meals and

berth on the steamer going to Cuba and returning; carriage transfer from the wharf at Havana to the hotel and return; also, lodging at the Hotel Inglaterra during the entire sojourn. Those interested in this excursion should address either W. W. Richardson or the managers as indicated above.

The members of the Southern Indiana Superintendents' Club held their annual meeting at Connersville, and were greatly pleased with their observations in the schools there, which are under the supervision of Prof. Lotus D. Coffman. The following superintendents were present: J. W. Riddle, Lawrenceburg; G. P. Weedman, North Vernon; J. W. Stott, Brookville; J. H. Scholl, Rushville; J. L. Clauser, Mitchell; W. H. Sanders, Bloomington; H. B. Wilson, Franklin; T. F. Fitzgibbon, Columbus; C. E. Clark, Boonville; J. H. Tomlin, Shelbyville; A. O. Neal, Madison; C. A. Prosser, New Albany; T. A. Mott, L. D. Coffman, Connersville; W. S. Rowe, Greenville, Ohio; Dr. E. B. Bryan, President Franklin College; Lawrence McTurnan, Assistant State Superintendent of Public Instruction; Dr. E. D. Starbuck, Earlham College, and County Superintendent Calvin Ochiltree, Superintendent of Fayette County schools. A few distinguished visitors were present to give encouragement to the above-named gentlemen in their professional work. We refer to the following representatives: E. R. Smith, of D. C. Heath & Co.; F. A. Preston, of Allyn & Bacon; Edwin R. Jones, of Silver, Burdett & Co., and J. W. Atherton, of Charles Scribner's Sons.

Prof. G. B. Coffman, formerly superintendent of schools at Mooresville, Ind., is now in charge of the schools at Lewistown, Ill., having entered upon his first year's work there. He has introduced manual training and domestic science. He was superintendent at Mt. Pulaski, Ill., for five years. In addition to Mr. Coffman's successful supervision, he has established quite a reputation as an institute instructor, his especial lines being history and geography.

Miss Helen M. Servoss, who formerly taught quite successfully in the Peru

schools, is now engaged in teaching in Delaware County, her address being Muncie. She and fifty-six other teachers of that county visited the Indianapolis schools recently, and were delighted with their observations.

We respectfully invite attention to the advertisement of the Commercial College of Kentucky University, as Prof. W. W. Smith, one of the members of the faculty, formerly taught in Boone County, Ind., where he is held in high esteem.

Since manual training is something which is engaging the interest of many school authorities and teachers of Indiana, they may obtain some helpful ideas in this direction while attending the State Teachers' Association meeting at Indianapolis by spending a few hours at the new Winona Technical Institute. This school is occupying a place in the list of training schools of the country which is peculiar to itself. It is philanthropic in purpose, without expectation of becoming a payer of dividends. Its chief object is to help worthy young men out of the rut of wage-earners and place before them the hope which a skilled artisan possesses. Complete courses of instruction are given in each school of the institute, includ ing printing, lithography, electrical and foundry work, pharmacy, carpentry, bricklaying, house and decorative painting. A number of young women from Indiana and other States are in the school for librarians, and others are taking the course in art. Each school is well equipped with appliances, the plants of the printing, lithography and electrical schools being especially pretentious. This is perhaps the only trade school in the country where each student is required to study the Bible in connection with regular school work. A competent teacher of the Bible gives a certain number of hours each week to each school.

Winona Technical Institute occupies a tract of 76 acres, which for many years was used as an arsenal by the United States Government. The buildings are all well adapted to trade school uses, the electric power and light, the water supply and heat all coming from private plants owned by the institute. The campus contains many acres,

which is thick with native trees. The institute is within a few minutes of the heart of the city of Indianapolis on the East Michigan street street-car line, and all the schools will be open to teachers and others who attend the winter meeting of the association.

RECENT RECORD OF STATE LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, INDIANAPOLIS.

More than ever during the past ten months has the State Life vindicated its right to the title of "Indiana's Leading Life Insurance Company."

A comparative statement of the business for the first ten months of 1905 and that of the same period of the year 1904 is herewith presented:

Insurance in force Nov. 1, 1905..$72,338,945 Insurance in force Dec., 31, 1904.. 60,148,994

Insurance gain during 10

months, 1905 . $12,189,951 The above results are sufficient to justify a feeling of pride in every policyholder of the company, and the citizens of the State of Indiana. They indicate not only continued energy and activity on the part of the company's splendid corps of workers in the field, but a progressive and conservative management of all its affairs at the home office. In these days of strenuous finance, the advantages secured to a policyholder by the Indiana legal reserve compulsory deposit law can not be too strongly emphasized. Every possible right of the members of the company operating under this law is carefully protected, and every outstanding policy is rendered absolutely secure by a deposit with the State of Indiana of stipulated high class securities for its entire value.

Under the provisions of the above named statute, enacted by the Legislature of the State of Indiana in 1899, and in fact suggested by the management of the State Life, all investments of the funds of the policyholders must be made in accordance with statutory directions and subject to State supervision. Under such legal safeguards no policyholder need ever fear for the solvency of the company or for the integrity or economy of the company's management.

PROGRAM OF INDIANA STATE TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION AT INDIANAPOLIS, DECEMBER

27, 28 AND 29, 1905.

General Association Officers-Dr. Edwin Holt Hughes, president, Greencastle; B. F. Moore, chairman executive committee, Marion; J. B. Pearcy, permanent secretary and treasurer, Anderson; Miss Anna Albrecht, recording secretary, Greensburg.

Vice-Presidents-R. J. Dearborn, Oakland City; L. D. Coffman, Salem; G. M. Wilson, Danville; O. L. Woolley, Indianapolis; A. H. Douglass, Logansport; C. W. Knouff, Wabash; D. T. Powers, Rochester.

Executive Committee-B. F. Moore, Marion; Hamlet Allen, Washington; Jesse W. Riddle, Lawrenceburg; D. O. Coate, Shelbyville; O. M. Pittenger, Alexandria; Frank E. Cooper, Crown Point; T. M. Miller, Fort Wayne; W. C. Brandenberg, ex-officio, Indianapolis.

GENERAL ASSOCIATION.
Wednesday, December 27, 8:00 p. m.
Assembly Room, Claypool Hotel.

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d. From the standpoint of homeMrs. Sarah Tarney Campbell, Anderson.

Thursday, December 28, 2:00 p. m.

Tomlinson Hall.

Exercises in honor of James Whitcomb Riley, "The Hoosier Poet."

Note. This entire session will be given to the exercises in honor of Mr. Riley. A special souvenir program is in preparation and will be distributed at the meeting. Special invitations will be sent out to those interested who are not actively identified with the Indiana State Teachers' Association, and the general public will be invited to attend. Special music will be arranged and addresses will be given by Edwin Holt Hughes, Senator Albert J. Beveridge, Meredith Nicholson and others.

Thursday, December 28, 8:00 p. m.
Tomlinson Hall.

Music.

Invocation.

Music.

Address-Governor J. Frank Hanly.

Friday, December 29, 9:00 a. m.
Assembly Room, Claypool Hotel.

Music. Invocation.

Address "The Next Step in Securing Better Salaries for Teachers"-Fassett A. Cotton, State Superintendent of Public Instruction.

Address "The School and the People"-Dr. Robert L. Kelly, president Earlham College.

Address "That Boy and His Teachers"Bishop John H. Vincent, Indianapolis. Business-Reports of committees and miscellaneous business.

High School Section.

Assembly Room, Claypool Hotel. Wednesday, December 27, 2:00 p. m. Vocal Selection-Mrs. Virginia C. Dearborn,

Indianapolis.

"Conscience in High School Pupils”—Principal Hamlet Allen, Washington.

"The High School Fraternity”—Principal S. B. McCracken, Elkhart.

"Co-operation Between Parents and Teachers"-Principal Geo. W. Benton, Shortridge High School, Indianapolis.

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