. "Our county and its people" : A history of Hampden County, the cause of good leaniing wededicate it. To the care and benediction of heaven we commendit. May it more than answer the sanguine hopes of its projectors,in furnishing teachers of a high order for many generations. The building was sixty-two by forty feet, two stories high,presenting an entrance at each end under high piazza roofs sup- ( 275 ) OVR COUNTY AND ITS PEOPLE ported by louie ooluiims. The Xonnal sehool was to occupy thesecond story, the teachers, and pupils desks being in the centralroom about forty feet sq
. "Our county and its people" : A history of Hampden County, the cause of good leaniing wededicate it. To the care and benediction of heaven we commendit. May it more than answer the sanguine hopes of its projectors,in furnishing teachers of a high order for many generations. The building was sixty-two by forty feet, two stories high,presenting an entrance at each end under high piazza roofs sup- ( 275 ) OVR COUNTY AND ITS PEOPLE ported by louie ooluiims. The Xonnal sehool was to occupy thesecond story, the teachers, and pupils desks being in the centralroom about forty feet square. At each end of this room a dooropened into a recitation room. The first story was similar in itsarrangement of rooms and was to be occupied by the school of thecentral district as an experimental or model school. In con-sideration of the town occupying these rooms with one of itsschools, W&stfield had appropriated .$1,500 to the building S. Rowe was appointed principal, a graduate of Bow-doin college and a teacher of cdusiderable experience. The whole. First Xonnal SlOiooI Buildiiif^Decli<atfil .^eptcmlicr. 3. 1841) number of applicants was Of these, 47 —20 young men and27 young women,—were admitted. The Normal school thus fairly started on its successful careerhad much to do. Its teachers and its students had all the enthu-siasm of those who are setting out on a voyage of discovery orentering untrodden ways on an exploring expedition. The writ-ings of Pestalozzi and his followers were studied. Descriptionsof German schools were carefully read as they had been vividlyoutlined bv Horace ^Nlann and bv others who had visited these ( 276 STATE yOLMAL SCHOOL schools. Idials wiTc foi-iind. c-liMiiurd. imiirovrd. That theteacher shoiUd teacli. and not tlie text-hook, was atfirnied, hut themethod of teaching the several studies re(|uired in the conunonschools was to be \\i-ouL:lit out. Wliili in aequirin^ knowledge,the traditional te.\l i)ook method was eon
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