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...nineteenth anniversary of the opening of the New York City Normal College was celebrated Thursday...
...buildings and connections. Under his curatorship, also, the Museum of Comparative Zoology has been so arranged and remodelled as to leave to Mr. Agassiz's successor, should he resign, as he at present intends, a thoroughly manageable institution with a distinct policy and an income adequate for the normal expenses, including expenditures for research and publication...
...late George Peabody left a sum of $3,500,000 for the promotion of popular education in the South. The most fruitful result of this generous gift is the Peabody Normal College, at Nashville, Tenn. As early as 1873 the trustees of the Peabody fund decided to establish a normal college in the South. Application was made to the Tennessee Legislature to charter such an institution, the trustees promising to contribute liberally to its support. In 1875 the bill was passed and in December of the same year the college opened with Dr. E. S. Stearns as President...
...college of William and Mary at Virginia, influenced by the invasion of the normal idea in the South, has now become a non-sectarian. The courses have been greatly changed and the college has a decidedly "normal" trend. Every student is obliged to teach two years in some public school in the State, and in return his tuition fees are paid as long as he remains at the college. The degree of Licentiate of Instruction is conferred after the completion of the first two years. The college numbers at present...
...walk from the centre of the city, is an open reservation about a quarter of a mile square, partly laid out as public grounds, partly occupied by public buildings. Here on the western side is the hospital Evangelion, and higher up the hill a plot of ground for a Normal School, the building for which has not yet been erected. On the eastern side is the old monastery of the Asomaton, now occupied as officers' barracks, standing picturesquely in the midst of trees, one of the few groves in Attica, the successor of the ancient sanctuary and gymnasium of Cynosarges...