The salary paid Miss Ida B. McLagan is largely returned to the treasury by musical tuition. Vocal music is taught all pupils free, but a fee of $12 per term is charged for instrumental music. Miss Maude Gilchrist, the last teacher employed, is a graduate of this school, going through its four years' course.

The Principal and his family, and three lady teachers, live in the main building, which has enabled the School to do without a Matron, thus saving the salary of such an employe.

The Institution now, including the new building, has a boarding department of the capacity of one hundred and thirty students, under the management of Col. Wm. Pattee, Steward.

The Board has met quarterly for the transaction of business, and

for the thorough examination of the School. The past year, during the erection of the new building, the Building Committee has been required to hold several special meetings.

All the school property is in good repair and excellent condition. The Board presents the following statement, showing the actual and imperative wants of the School for the ensuing biennial period:

1,500.00

.$ 33,100.00

For gas machine and fixtures..

For fence, sewers, walks, out-buildings, and needed improvement

of grounds...

Total..

The Board asks for just such an amount as is absolutely essential to conduct the School as it should be and keep up the property as it ought to be.

The special contingent fund, mentioned in the foregoing schedule, is needed for the payment of certain extraordinary expenses growing out of the lowering of the boilers. In order that the same boilers may suffice for heating both buildings, it became necessary to lower them, and in doing this it was found that the boilers were badly out of repair, costing some $3,000 to put them in a safe condition for use, and to lower them as required. The greater part of this expense could not be foreseen, and the Board considers it fortunate that the defective boilers were discovered in time to prevent accidents. There should be no hesitancy about an appropriation for this amount.

The new building will require the amount asked to furnish it ready for use.

The society rooms, in the new building, were left unfinished for the want of funds. The convenience of the societies require their completion, and for this purpose the sum of $600 is asked.

It will be a matter of economy for the State to provide means for purchasing a gas machine and fixtures. To do this the sum suggested will be necessary.

On account of the numerous repairs and improvements made from

time to time, exhausting the contingent fund and leaving many things undone, there are several matters that ought to be looked after. There are additional sewers required, and these are necessary to the health of the students. The fences are in a sadly dilapidated condition, needing rebuilding very badly. The walks ought to be relaid, and new walks are needed. There are several out-buildings that should be built, because they are much needed. For these improvements the Board asks $1,500.

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The teachers' salaries cannot be reduced. The new building will be occupied at the September term, this year, requiring additional teachers. To these additional teachers it has become necessary to charge a small tuition fee, which will be dropped as soon as the State furnishes the means to carry on the School without it. The Board hesitated long before consenting to this fee, but without it the new building would, in a measure, have to be unoccupied. The tuition ought not to be charged any longer than until the General Assembly can make the necessary appropriation to cover it.

The Board has not made these estimates high, with the expectation of any of them being cut down. They have been made after a thorough and careful examination and discussion of all the details. To try to get along with less will simply require the Board to struggle, and turn, and twist, to make the finances come out even. If the Board is economical in its management of the money affairs of the School, it ought not to be cramped for means essential to the conduct of the School.

THE NEW BUILDING.

Two years ago the Board asked the Nineteenth General Assembly to appropriate $30,000 for the construction of an additional Normal building. Much to the credit and honor of that Assembly the appropriation was made, and the Board, in the name of the people of the State, thanks the Assembly for so generously responding to that appeal.

The Board has the pleasure of reporting to the Twentieth General Assembly that the new building is now completed and ready for occupancy.

F. M. Ellis, Esq., Marshalltown, Iowa, was chosen architect in March, 1882. In due time he submitted plans, which were accepted. It was found that the building, according to these plans, would cost

more than the $30,000 placed at the disposal of the Board. The cit izens of Cedar Falls, with a generosity in the highest degree commendable, contributed $5,000 to meet the increased cost; and on June 29, 1882, the contract was let to J. M. Rice, Esq., of Austin, Cook county, Ill., his bids being the most favorable. The work proceeded promptly, and on the 8th day of June, 1883, the building was com pleted and formally dedicated with appropriate ceremonies. Much praise is due Mr. Ellis and Mr. Rice, and especially the latter, for the faithful discharge of their obligations. All the work was well done; and a great degree of satisfaction is felt with the building. It consists of a central portion, or nave, and two wings; is three stories high, with a good basement and high attic, and can truthfully be said to be four stories. The roofing is of slate. The central part is 45 feet by 78 feet, and each wing is 43 feet by 32 feet 6 inches. The extreme frontage is 113 feet. The building contains a chapel, 76 feet by 45 feet, which is finely frescoed (the expense of frescoing was met by the Faculty and students); a model school-room, 30 feet by 45 feet, a library, two society halls, chemical and physical laboratories, offices, cloak rooms, music rooms, and six recitation rooms. In addition to these are the dormitories, consisting of eight study parlors, and fourteen bed-rooms, that will comfortably accommodate thirty-six students. About one fourth of the floor space is occupied by dormitories. The building is well fitted with steam-heating ap paratus, pipes for gas in all parts, water tanks that supply wash-bowls and sinks and afford protection against fire. The sewerage, as far as completed, is good. There are two broad halls and staircases—one in each wing and corridors connecting them. It is a beautiful and imposing building, and well adapted to its uses.

The cuts herewith given will indicate what the building is more satisfactorily than a description.

The Board calls attention to the report of the Principal, hereto appended, for further details of the means in use and the practical working of the School.

As was said by the Board in its last report: "The State Normal School is no longer an experiment. It is a success beyond peradventure. It has been brought thus speedily to its present excellent condition mainly through the indefatigable and untiring efforts of the efficient Faculty, whose whole being has been so wrapped up in the prosperity and success of the Institution that they have been willing to labor

for such compensation as the Board was compelled to allow them, hoping and trusting that a generous State, as soon as it saw the great and noble work being done, would bring it within the power of the Board to increase the salaries to a fair and just compensation for the labor performed."

All that the Board then said it reiterates now, and with additional emphasis. The increased attendance of pupils growing out of the additional building, will put more work upon each member of the Faculty, and they should be better paid. It would be a deserved compliment to these faithful and efficient workers in the noblest cause that the State fosters and supports, to add, of its own accord, to the estimate for teachers' salaries a sum sufficient to make their compen sation equal to that paid for like services in similar Institutions in adjoining States.

Respectfully submitted,

EDWARD H. THAYER,

WM. C. BRYANT, Secretary.

President of the Bourd