Bridgewater State Normal School Massachusetts : [catalogue] . Quincy. Shirley, Jessie Orr Quincy. Shortall, Margaret Teresa Abington. Sickels, Vera Abigail Nantucket. Simmons, Mildred Leslie Dighton. Smith, Lela Isabelle Quincy. Snow, Julia Frances East Dennis. Symmes, Ruth Stowell Winchester. Tilden, Maude Douglas Cohasset. Tisdale, Martha Louise Canton. Tourtellotte, Ruth Adams • . Hyde Park. Treat, Louise Jackson . Medford. Victory, Catherine Craig Abington. Ward, Alice Marl Middleborough. Whiting, Ruth Pride •. East Dedham. Whitman, Alice Whilena Winthrop. Williams, Flora Belle Cohasset. W
Bridgewater State Normal School Massachusetts : [catalogue] . Quincy. Shirley, Jessie Orr Quincy. Shortall, Margaret Teresa Abington. Sickels, Vera Abigail Nantucket. Simmons, Mildred Leslie Dighton. Smith, Lela Isabelle Quincy. Snow, Julia Frances East Dennis. Symmes, Ruth Stowell Winchester. Tilden, Maude Douglas Cohasset. Tisdale, Martha Louise Canton. Tourtellotte, Ruth Adams • . Hyde Park. Treat, Louise Jackson . Medford. Victory, Catherine Craig Abington. Ward, Alice Marl Middleborough. Whiting, Ruth Pride •. East Dedham. Whitman, Alice Whilena Winthrop. Williams, Flora Belle Cohasset. Wood, Ada Lorena Winthrop. Men, 0; women, 76. 14 STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, BRIDGE WATER. SUMMARY. ]VIen. W omen. Total. 3 12 15 20 24 44 2 396 41 6 Elementary course: — 22 22 46 46 - 76 76 Number for the year 25 225 250 6 110 116 Whole number admitted to the school 1,359 4,259 5,618 Number graduated last year 91 98 Whole number of graduates 905 2,817 3,722 Number of graduates from four years course 162 153 315 Number enrolled in the model school 212 234 446. The Fikst State Normal School Building in in Bridgewater, Mass., in 1846. 16 STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, BRIDGE WATER. Historical Sketch. This school was one of the first three State normal schools establishedon this continent. Hon. Edmund Dwight of Boston offered to furnishten thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Boardof Education for qualifying teachers for our common schools, on con-dition that the Legislature would appropriate an equal amount for thesame purpose On the 19th of April, 1888, the Legislature passed aresolve accepting this offer. The Board decided to establish threeschools for the education of teachers, each to be continued three year-,as an experiment, and on May 30, 1838, voted to establish one of theseschools in the county of Plymouth. On Dec. 28, 1838, the Board voted toestablish the other two at Lexington and Barre. Prominent men in Plymouth County spent nearh* two years
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