Identifier: caleooms08bloo (find matches)
Title: Calendar of the Bloomsburg Literary Institute and State Normal School (charter name) sixth district, Bloomsburg, Columbia County, Pennsylvania. 1908-1909
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Bloomsburg Literary Institute and State Normal School
Subjects: Bloomsburg Literary Institute and State Normal School -- Periodicals
Publisher: (Bloomsburg, PA : Bloomsburg Literary Institute and Pennsylvania State Normal School, 1902-1916?) Bloomsburg, PA : printed at The Columbian Office (1902?-1916?)
Contributing Library: Bloomsburg University, Harvey A. Andruss Library
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branches are given opportu-nity to specialize to an extent sufficient to enable them to con-duct departmental work. The Model School The Model School, like the graded public schools, consistsof eight grades. Four experienced critic teachers in separaterooms have charge of two grades each. Thus the children re-ceive tlie close attention of skilled specialists, and the teachingby the Seniors is under constant and competent inspection.The children are also under the instruction of the regularhers in Physical Training in the gymnasium. //. The College Preparatory Department. The College Preparatory Department of the BloomsburgLiterary Institute and State Normal School is by no means adeparture. It dates from the original establishment of1 in (866, and is maintained in connection with theby special provision of the state charter.The community and the trustees of the Literary Instituteunwilling to allow the institution, which they had found-ed and fostered at and personal sacrifice, to be-
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AND STATE NORMAL SCHOOL 17 come a state institution, unless the provision to furnish theyoung people of the community with a broad, general educa-tion, could be continued. It has always been the policy of this school to urge upon itsstudents and graduates the importance and advantage of ahigher education than a Normal School is fitted to provide, andit is a source of pride and gratification to those in charge of thevarious departments, that the school is constantly representedamong the students of the colleges and universities of thecountry, by large numbers of its former students and graduates. The preparatory work done at Bloomsburg differs materiallyfrom that of the majority of preparatory schools. All thestrictly College Preparatory branches, as well as those of theteachers courses, are presented to the student with referenceto their didactic as well as academic values. This necessarilyresults in giving students a broader conception of these sub-jects than is otherwise possible, a

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