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Catalog of 1876-77

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CHAPTER 63.

As stated before, this year we enlarged our catalogue; made lengthy remarks on the courses of study; spoke of the government of the school, the reunions, etc., etc. I will her insert a page from catalogue No. 6, page 21. I cut it from the catalogue on file and kindly request the editors of the Herald to preserve it for me, for some day I intend to donate my file of catalogues to the university. I know of but two complete files of catalogues of the school, the one in my possession and the one in possession of Mr. Agnew Welsh. Page 21 of catalogue No. 6 published June, 1876.

Expenses.

Statement of expenses per week at the Northwestern Ohio Normal school, two students occupying one room:

Tuition in Common Branches .62
Tuition in Higher Branches .77
Music and Penmanship extra.
Rent of room, furniture, bedding,
provided and cared for, .60 to .75
Good club boarding, 1.50 to 1.60
Book rent, say four volumes, .05
Light and fuel, .05 to .20
Total, 2.75 to 3.37

A fair estimate of your necessary weekly expense, including tuition, room and book rent, light and fuel, is, by self-boarding $2.25 to $2.50; by club boarding, $2.75 to $3.37; by private boarding, $3.65 to $4.25; and we hereby agree to furnish you the foregoing advantages on the terms here specified. If you furnish your own carpet and bed clothes, your expenses will be considerably less than the foregoing estimates. For the winter term tuition is about four cents more per week than above stated. For the short term tuition is $1.00 per week.

Please compare above estimates with those of others similar institutions. As to buildings, recitation rooms, society halls, furniture, libraries, apparatus, and efficient, live teachers, advantages are equal, if not greater, than those of any similar institution in the West. Our students are our best advertisements. Ninety-five per cent of those who once attended here, if they continue in school, return again. Every term has from 25 to 45 per cent increase over any corresponding term.

If matters are not as represented in our catalogue or circulars, or if, after a fair trail, you should not be satisfied with the work of the school, we shall refund your tuition.

Reasons why

The Northwestern Ohio Normal School should be patronized:

1. Because religion and morality are her foundation principles.

2. Because it is an institution where any person can pursue any study at any time.

3. Because her motto is economy, practicability and thoroughness.

4. Because her teaching is justly normal.

5. Because she seeks the moral and physical welfare of her students.

6. Because she stands upon her own merits--not being endowed.

7. Because she trains and selects her own teachers.

8. Because her literary society, the Philomathean and Franklin, are unsurpassed.

9. Because her recitation and study-rooms are capacious and pleasant.

10. Because her determination is, not to be surpassed by any other Normal school in Ohio in any of the modern conveniences.

The school was growing finely, the enrollment the last year was 449 showing a growth of 92 over the previous year. We had purchased, the last school year, $580 worth of apparatus. Among the pieces procured were a good microscope, a good air pump, gas generators, electrical machine, etc. We already had a good level and transit.

The Summer term, the first of the year was larger that usual. The Fall term opened well notwithstanding it was exposition year. I enrolled 36 in the reading class. I sent to the editor of the Herald leaves from my class register of 1876 bearing the names of the members of the class in practical arithmetic which numbered 95 and will also send the leaves bearing the names of the class in geography. It enrolled 81. Also have the grades of the members but will not send those.

Miss Young, J.C. Owens, R.N. Kelly, Hala Morrison, Frank Brown, Florence Gleason, Minerva Spangler, Lizzie Price, Jennie Christopher, Lizzie Patrick, Ella Stinson, Ella Wolfley, Eva Bowdle, Ella Southwick, Sue E. Reade, Laura Getty, Mary Jones, Ida Gardner, Eliza Wise, Mollie Bastable, E.O. Wickersham, Nannie Jacobs, Ella Huston, Hattie Montgomery, Viola Sellars, J.E. Thomas, G.W. Cunningham, S.G. Obenour, L. Smith, F.J. Durham, J.E. Hesser, J.W. Henry, J. Montgomery, J.W. Wynn, A.J. Huffman, George Walker, E.N. Ray, M.H. Bain, J.E. Rayl, N.C. Walker, W.P. Rayl, S.P. Kail, S.T. Thomas, J.R. Henderson, J.C. Guintha, S.W. Turner, Millie Cochran, J.A. Morrison, G.H. Barnes, W.O. Houser, E.W. Marshall, D.W. Sellers, G.K. Black, L.M. Slaymaker, J.L. Kirecofe, D.H. Crites, H.H. Folk, J.G. Harpster, S.E. Humphrey, G.L. Minbaugh. F.H. Roberts, Edgar Harrison, F.P. Shook, E.O. Wickersham, Sm. Rohr, J.A. Kerr, M.F. Eggerman, F.M. Owens, W.H. Wagner, H.S. Turner, Adam Burner, W.B. Gamlick, W.M. Guy, A.B. Morris, George Burchie, E.W. Wilkins, Ira Emery, Linda Burnes, Lavantia Marshall, Minnie Grafton, Emmlyn Gerrich, Josie Jordon, Elida Cunningham, Lydia Cochran, Mary Stallsmith, Nannie Johnson, Tiny Steiner, Alice Burton, Jane Littrick, Mollie Bell, Frank Bown, Minerva Spangler, Lizzie Patrick, Jennie Christopher, Eva Bowdle, Ella Stinson, Ida Gardner, Mary Jones, Leifie Getty, Sue E. Reade, Ella Southwick, Lydia Cochran, Jennie Schott, Nannie Jacobs, Hattie Montgomery, Eliza Wise, J.E. Thomas, G.G. Overnour, J.D. Shifferly, J.E. Hesser, L. Smith, F.J. Deran, A. Hume, F.M. Saum, J.W. Henry, J. Montgomery, A.J. Huffman, N.C. Walker, W.P. Rayl, S.P. Kail, S.T. Thomas, Ralph Diehl, W.L. Stark, E.W. Marshall, S.W. Turner, G.R. Flack, C.M. Slaymaker, H.H. Folk, F. Keller, G. Harpster, A.C. Johnston, F.P. Shook, C. Bailey, Jennie Baldwin, Hester A. Meyer, Mollie Bell, Josie Jordon, Fannie Johnson, Mary Stallsmith, Mollie Cochran, Jennie Moses.