The 1908 Biennial Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, Henry C. Morrison, reemphasized the need for more normal schools, pointing out that the normal school at Plymouth had an average of 37 graduates per year, and that Manchester no longer maintained its training school. He suggested a total of four new schools, including [...]
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Declaration of principles, Resolution 1906
The New Hampshire State Normal School was founded in Plymouth in 1871. By 1905, Concord, Manchester, Nashua and Portsmouth had their own teacher training schools, but all of these together were providing about 80 graduates per year, while the school districts of the state needed about 350 teachers per year. Most of the teachers [...]
Fifty-Sixth Report Upon The Public Schools Of New Hampshire
REPORT
OF THE
SUPERINTENDENT
OF
PUBLIC INSTRUCTION
(Henry C. Morrison)
BEING THE
FIFTY-SIXTH REPORT UPON THE PUBLIC
SCHOOLS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
___________________
CONCORD. 1910.
(P. 376-7)
CHAPTER V.
THE STATE NORMAL SCHOOLS.
PLYMOUTH
Involved in the primary purpose of the school, which is the training of teachers, are three functions, each of which is an important matter. They are, (a) the academic or theoretic side of the training process, sometimes loosely thought of as normal school proper; [...]