Excerpt from The Normal School Bulletin; July 1908, Vol. 2: Southern Illinois State Normal University, Carbondale; Catalog Number; Announcements for 1908-1909 The citizens kindly offered the use of rooms in some of the business blocks, which the trustees accepted and the school went on with regu lar recitation work, with an actual loss of less than two days. In the meantime, a plan was proposed for a temporary school building, and in less than sixty days a building was completed containing fourteen rooms, and the Normal School began its wonted duties in this, its temporary home. The General Assembly, by an act approved June 27, 1885, appropri ated to replace the first building, then lying in ruins. The foundation and stone walls of the first story were utilized, thus saving from twelve to fifteen thousand dollars. The present building, which is the main building of the entire plant, is a magnificent structure, in many respects superior to the one destroyed by fire. It was dedicated Thursday, February 24, 1887, and occupied by the school with much rejoicing on the following Monday. 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.