Word: normal
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...burning of the Southern Illinois Normal University entailed a loss...
Prof. H. Payne, of Michigan University, in an address before the Wisconsin State Teachers' Association, on "Education as a University Study," said: "There can be no collision between a normal school and a university chair of education, for a university cannot compete with a secondary school. The state needs many more teachers of a higher grade of scholarship than a normal school can supply. These teachers must come from the college or from the university...
...Louis and San Francisco, and they answer a good purpose and cost but little. This method of carrying the examination papers to the candidates, instead of obliging all candidates to travel to Cambridge, only dates from 1876; it has been gradually extended, and bids fair to become the normal method for large academies and for cities which possess schools capable of preparing boys for this university...
During the present month the annual commencement of the Woman's Normal School at Tokio, Japan, takes place. There will be about forty graduates. This school was established for the purpose of furnishing trained teachers for the academies and high schools throughout the empire...
Five of the buildings of the St. Augustin Normal School for colored students, at Raleigh, N. C., were burned yesterday. Loss...