Pennsylvania, colonial and federal : a history, 1608-1903 . ome operative as soon as four schools com-plied with the conditions and applied for recognition was per-fected by a supplementary act of 1859. providing a way for therecognition of one school without waiting for the application offour schools. The carrying out of this legislation in regard to State Normalschools was a work of years. Planned on a colossal scale, theprivate parties who undertook to erect them were obliged to goheavily into debt. The attendance of students and the revenuedid not suffice to pay running expenses and intere
Pennsylvania, colonial and federal : a history, 1608-1903 . ome operative as soon as four schools com-plied with the conditions and applied for recognition was per-fected by a supplementary act of 1859. providing a way for therecognition of one school without waiting for the application offour schools. The carrying out of this legislation in regard to State Normalschools was a work of years. Planned on a colossal scale, theprivate parties who undertook to erect them were obliged to goheavily into debt. The attendance of students and the revenuedid not suffice to pay running expenses and interest on the like Abraham Peters of Millersville, Hon. Silas M. Clarkof Indiana, and Rev. D. J. Waller of Bloomsburg went securityfor large sums of money to save from the hands of the sheriff theschools with which they were connected as trustees! Time hasjustified their faith in these schools. The several schools grewin public favor, legislative appropriations lifted them out of press-ing debts, and to-day the State points with pride to the State 60. Richard Dale Lieutenant in Nirginia navy 1776; captured andimprisoned by British while in Revolutionarywar service, 1777; commissioned lieutenant1781; became captain 1794; commanded theMediterranean squadron 1801; died, 1826 The Educational Svstem Normal schools. A detailed history of the trials, struggles andsacrifices through which the several schools passed until theyfinally reached the era of prosperity, would fill volumes. Suchdetails must be left to the local historian. In order that the Statelegislature might be induced to come to the rescue by liberalappropriations, a change was made whereby six out of eighteentrustees were appointed by the State superintendent, and mort-gages covering the grounds and buildings were given in favor ofthe State to guard against the sale of the same in the interest ofthe stockholders or contributors. This finally made it difficultfor the trustees to make temporary loans. A few leaders of
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