Keene Evening Sentinel
Thursday, December 1, 1910
Page 7
ENLARGEMENTS LOOKED FOR
At Normal School in Keene in the
Near Future.
A meeting of the board of trustees of the New Hampshire normal schools, of whom the governor is chairman ex officio, was held recently in Concord to consider the matter of improvements and additions to the normal school in Keene toward the development of which the state has as yet done nothing in the way of the erection of buildings. The meeting was held with a view to recommending to the coming legislature suitable plans for the proper development of the state property in this city. Principal Jeremiah M. Rhodes of the Keene school was present at the meeting and the trustees have also employed suitable architects with whom they are in consultation.
The problems to be solved in the development of the Keene property will involve landscape studies as well as plans for such buildings as the establishment of a large state school will necessitate. By another year, without doubt, the number of scholars here will be much larger than can be accommodated in the residence now used for school purposes, with which the state was provided by the city of Keene to establish this school. Plans are being developed, it is understood, for a much larger school building and it is reported that the matter of providing dormitories for the pupils will also be taken up. As the school grows a dormitory building will be almost an essential, as proper accommodations for so many young ladies in private families are difficult to find and dormitories are preferred by the young lady pupils in many cases, as well as by parents. Other buildings may also be needed in the future in connection with the school.