REFLECTIONS 
 
the normal School Bulletin 
 
 Published Quarterly By The Eastern Illinois State Normal School 
 
 [Printed by authority of the State of Illinois.] 
 
 Entered March 5, 1902, as second-class matter, at the post office at Charleston, Illinois. Act of 
 
 Congress, July 16, 1894. 
 
 No. 62 CHARLESTON, ILLINOIS Oct. 1, 1918 
 
 Campus Reflections 
 Eastern Illinois State Normal School 
 
 Charleston 
 

OUR SCHOOL 
 
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 For us arose thy walls and towers, 
 Their beauty, strength and grace are ours; 
 The hills and prairies at thy feet 
 For us in lovely landscape meet. 
 
 REFRAIN 
 
 So must our hearts remember thee, 
 
 So may our lives our tribute be, 
 
 Strong, true, and beautiful, and brave, and free, 
 
 So shall our hearts, our hearts remember thee. 
 
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 For gift of friends, for lasting gain, 
 For hard won joys that long remain, 
 For strength of victory possessed, 
 We thank the school we love the best. 
 
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 Across the years thy spirit burns 
 Across the land in love it yearns, 
 Enkindled with the light of truth 
 Made perfect in eternal youth. 
 
 Isabel McKinney 
 
PEMBERTON HALL— THE WOMAN'S BUILDING 
 
 A CORNER OF THE DINING ROOM— PEM BERTON HALL 
 
THE LIVING ROOM — PEMBERTON HALL 
 
 ANOTHER CORNER OF THE LIVING ROOM 
 
AN OUTDOOR GAME 
 
 THE GROVE AND A CORNER CF THE GYMNASIUM 
 
MANUAL TRAINING SHOP 
 
 MECHANICAL DRAWING ROOM 
 
A JUNIOR PARTY PLAY— 1918 
 
 SCENE FROM A SENIOR CLASS PLAY ON THE CAMPUS 
 
RANDOM SHOTS 
 
1917-18 BASKET BALL TEAM 
 
 AN EXCITING FINISH AT A FIELD AND TRACK MEET 
 
A GIRLS' GYMNASIUM CLASS 
 
 A CLASS IN PHYSICAL TRAINING 
 
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THE FORESTRY— SWEET CUM TREES AND SUGAR MAPLES 
 
THE SOUTH DRIVEWAY FR CM THE MAIN BUILDING 
 
THE SYMBOL OF SERVICE— FIVE GOLD STARS 
 
THE EASTERN ILLINOIS STATE 
 NORMAL SCHOOL. 
 
 ACCESSIBILITY 
 
 The Eastern Illinois State Normal School is located at Charleston, the 
 county seat of Coles County. It is easily reached from points in the central 
 and eastern parts of the state, for it is situated at the junction of the Clover Leaf 
 railroad with the main line of the Big Four, and is connected by trolley with 
 the Illinois Central at Mattoon. A car line runs from the stations to the 
 grounds. 
 
 BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS 
 
 The school is fortunately placed, on a forty-acre tract adjoining the city 
 on the south. The grounds were planned by a now famous landscape gar- 
 dener; and, as the photographs suggest, they provide always varied and de- 
 lightful pictures, which become part of each student's inheritance. They in- 
 clude one of the best athletic fields in the state, a small forestry, a school gar- 
 den, numerous tennis courts, a broad, grassy playground, and a grove of old 
 forest trees. Most of the grounds are laid out in the natural style, with shrub- 
 bery, a lily pond, and a small lake. So great a variety of habitat for birds 
 brings many species to the campus so that it has become almost a "bird reser- 
 vation". The approach to the main building is more formal, in keeping with 
 the dignified structure. 
 
 The four school buildings form a harmonious group, conveniently placed 
 close together. The main building contains, besides offices and classrooms, the 
 library, the assembly hall, and several laboratories. The manual training 
 shops have a separate building near the school gardens and the domestic 
 science laboratory is in the training school building. The training school for 
 teachers is composed of the eight elementary grades, each in a spacious and 
 well-planned room, with classroom adjoining. The gymnasium occupies a 
 wing attached to Pemberton Hall, the woman's building. This, perhaps the 
 most beautiful of the group, will accommodate a hundred girls. 
 
 EQUIPMENT 
 
 The Eastern Illinois State Normal School was established by act of leg- 
 islature May 22, 1895, to train teachers for the public schools of Illinois. An 
 adequate faculty and administrative force; specially equipped laboratories for 
 botany, zoology, physics, chemistry, agriculture, and domestic science; a spe- 
 
cial building devoted exclusively to the manual arts; an elementary school of 
 over two hundred fifty pupils representing eight grades under the direction of 
 the school, furnishing an opportunity for observation and practice teaching; a 
 library of more than sixteen thousand well selected books; a woman's building 
 comfortably housing a hundred girls — these features indicate how well 
 equipped the school is to prepare a large number of students for the business 
 of teaching. 
 
 COURSES OF STUDY 
 
 Courses of study are offered to meet the needs of varying groups of stu- 
 dents: for high school graduates a two-year course leading to a normal school 
 diploma; for those who have not completed four years of high school work 
 other courses, whose length depends upon the amount of preparation offered. 
 A two-year course is offered also to graduates of the eighth grade who wish 
 to prepare for teaching in the rural schools. 
 
 STUDENTS' LOAN FUND 
 
 Gifts from various sources have provided a fund from which deserving 
 students who need financial aid in order to complete their course may borrow 
 on easy terms. This fund is available to students who are completing the last 
 half of their course; for example, to a student pursuing a two-year course it 
 would be available in his second year. 
 
 ATTENTION HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES 
 
 There was a shortage of 30,000 teachers this last fall in city and country 
 systems alone, according to figures published by the Bureau of Education. 
 Positions at good salaries now await well-prepared teachers. The outlook for 
 those preparing to teach was never better than today. The Eastern Illinois 
 State Normal School will do its part in training teachers to meet the present 
 shortage. Preparations have been made to receive mid-year graduates of high 
 schools and to provide first term work in all junior required subjects in the 
 second term beginning January 21 , IQIQ. It will be possible for high school 
 graduates to fulfill by February 1, 1920, the requirements for a second grade 
 certificate without examination; and by August, 1920, it will be possible for 
 them to have completed the work required for graduation and a diploma, the 
 equivalent of a first grade certificate. Those who do not graduate from high 
 school until June, 1919, may begin the normal school course in the summer 
 school of that year and complete it by February 1, 1921. 
 
 HOW TO OBTAIN INFORMATION 
 
 The school is glad to correspond with prospective students as to courses of 
 study and credits. A catalogue of the school or a bulletin of the summer 
 school will be sent to any address upon request. Those who wish information 
 are invited to write to President L. C. Lord. 
 
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