Word: normal
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
There was a time at the University when religion was looked upon as a mere ornament to life and something quite outside the range of normal, active men. But the influence of Brooks House during the past twelve years has done away with this idea. One of the most striking things about the University community today is the alert interest that so many men take in some one other than themselves. A religious life exists here which should reach out and unite the whole University--and Phillips Brooks House must supply the common ground...
Baker, J. M., '12, Harvard College, South Chatham, State Normal School, Bridgewater...
Harlow, R. L., '12, Bowditch, Cambridge, State Normal School, Bridgewater...
...travel five hundred miles "by walking and begging rides both in wagons and in cars" to Hampton Institute from which he graduated in 1875, later becoming an instructor in the same institution. In 1881 he was called upon to organize and become the head of a negro normal school at Tuskegee, Alabama, for which the State legislature had made an annual appropriation. Opened in July 1881 in a little shanty and church, the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute became under his administration the foremost exponent of industrial education for the negro race. Harvard University conferred upon him the honorary degree...
...alumni, interested in musical education, who feel that American universities do not afford sufficient opportunities for developing the musical taste of those of their members who are not especially devoted to musical studies. In order, therefore, to encourage an intelligent appreciation of music among young men who have a normal sense of its beauty, they have united on the following proposals...