Excerpt from The Oak, 1929, Vol. 18 When, in the sixties, a small group of people interested in teacher train ng institutions drew up plans for a school at Indiana, their visions and dreams far exceeded their ability to realize them. About twenty thousand dollars were available in 1869, and with this as a start, the institution began to grow. On May 17, 1875, the school was formally opened. James P. Wicker sham, then State Superintendent of Public Instruction, was the chief speaker, and he congratulated the founders upon the excellency and dur ability oi that building which still stands as a reminder of the first president of the board of trustees, John Sutton Hall. In 1875 there was an enrollment of 306 students; in 1880, of 375, and in 1885, of 557. The present enrollment of 1400 shows the enormous growth which the school has seen. In 1893 a dormitory for men students was built but was burned to the ground on December 4, 1905. Plans for a new dormitory were immediately begun, and upon its completion, the new building was named Clark Hall, in honor of the board's second president, Justice Silas M. Clark, of the Supreme Court Bench. The cornerstone was laid on Monday, June 4, 1906, and several prominent men of the town were present as speakers. A tin box containing a baseball with the indiana-kiski score on it, the class roll, the list of trustees, the faculty, recent copies of the Indiana Evening Gazette and a Pittsburgh paper, and the picture and biography of the late Hon. Silas M. Clark, was placed in the cornerstone, on the face of which were carved the figures '06. In the same year the Model or Training School, containing eight rooms, was erected to the north of the main building. This building is known as Wilson Hall and was named in honor of the third president of the board of trustees, A. W. Wilson. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.