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Title: The Wisconsin blue book
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Wisconsin. Office of the Secretary of State. Legislative manual of the State of Wisconsin Wisconsin. Bureau of Labor and Industrial Statistics. Blue book of the State of Wisconsin Industrial Commission of Wisconsin Wisconsin. State Printing Board Wisconsin. Legislature. Legislative Reference Library Wisconsin. Legislature. Legislative Reference Bureau Wisconsin. Blue book of the State of Wisconsin
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Publisher: Madison
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ose. Institutes are regarded as important auxiliaries and feed-ers to the normal schools. At present one professor from each normal 6chcol is employedIn conducting institutes every spring and fall. The productive Normal School Fund now amounts to $1.458,0! 58 .of $111,1-10.81 inlSS3. It will be increased by the further sale of swamp lands, and willprove ample for the objects for which it is set apart. The fund for the support of normalSchools is further increased by amount received for tuition in model schools and prepara-tory departments, and for book rents ($13,000.55 in 1SSS), and by annual appr. ,($10,000) to aid in maintaining the school in city of Milwaukee. ENROLLMENT. The number of pupils In attendance during the past year at all of the normal Nhooli lathe State is as follows: NORMAL DLPARTMrXT. 08hko<=h 471 River Fnlis ICT Plattevilli* M Whitewater Milwaukee 215 MODKL DEPARTMKNT Othkoth iw River Fan H Platteville 1ST Whitewater Ill Milwaukee Total In all departments. 2.0S1
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STATE INSTITUTIONS. 301 PLATTEVILLE SCHOOL. Duncan McGregor, PRESIDENT. This school was established by the Board of Regent3 of Normal Schools, by virtue ofpower conferred by Chapter 216, General Laws of 1S»)6. On the iS:h of February, 1886, theBoard, after considering the several proposals for the establishment of the Normal SchooLsvoted to locate one of them at Platteville. Accordingly the building and grounds of thePlatteville Academy having been donated to the State and accepted by the Board, the schoolwas opened on the 9th day of October, in the same year. As the capacity of the buildingproved insufficient to meet the wants of the school, the Board proceeded to the erection ofa new and commodious structure, which was dedicated on the 9th day of September, Since the opening of the school about 1.S00 students have been enrolled in the NormalDepartment. The Graduates in the full course number 1G9, a large proportion of whom areteachers. Platteville is a city of about 3,000 inhabitan

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