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 HISTORY OF RICHLAND COUNTY.

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��5. To put within reach of all a thorough, practical education, '' good enough for the best, and cheap enough for the poorest."

The courses of stud}' are :

Preparatory — emljracing a searching study or review of all the common branches, including also elementary algebra, rhetoric, elocution and debating.

Teachers — same as preparatory, with thorough training in methods of teaching, philosophy of education, school organization and management.

Business — a full course in book-keeping, com- mercial computations, penmanship, business correspondence and commercial law.

Musical — vocal and instrumental in all its departments.

Scientific — a full line of mathematics, natural science, Latin language, history (both ancient and modern), English literature, evidences of Christianity, and government.

Classical — This adds to the scientific course a training in (xreek, metaphysics and logic.

To these it is proposed to add, in the » early future, a preparatory course in law and medi- cine, so that young ladies and gentlemen may be prepared, in classes, to attend the regular lectures in legal and medical schools.

At this date (January, 1880), although the normal college has been in existence but little over a year, it has grown from thirty-two students at the opening, to one hundred and ten. repre- senting nearly every part of the State.

Classes have lieen organized in arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, calculus, geog- raphy, natural philosophy, chemistry, physi- ology, botany, geology and zoology, English grammar, rhetoric, elocution, literature and his- tor}', Latin grammar and Greek, penmanship, vocal and instrumental music.

lender its present efficient management the normal college, it is hoped and believed, will be a permanent success. All it needs is encour- agement and fostering care to make it one of the best of its kind in the State.

��In 1818, the first paper made its appearance in Mansfield. It was called the OUn. The following extract is from a letter of 3Ir. John C. Gilkison. its editor and proprietor : • The first newspaper printed in Kichland County was established in April, 1818. * * ^ It was what is termed a mediiim sheet, and was printed on what we Avould call, at this day, worn-out type, and an old Ramage press ; the entire establish- ment cost about $150. * * * It was car- ried on al>out a year, with three hundred and fifty or four hundred subscribers. * * * At the time the Ollce was first established. Rich- land County contained about one thousand voters, and the number of dwelling-houses in ^lansfield was al)out seventy-five or eighty.* chiefly log cabins and small frame buildings. A considerable proportion of the support of the establishment was from Huron County, there being at that time no printing office in that count}'.' In politics, the Olive advocated Whig principles. Shortly after it started. John Fleming became a partner of Mr. Gilkison. and the publication was continued about one year, when Mr. Gilkison sold his interest to Roliert Crosthwaite. who, in a few weeks, also purchased Flemings interest, and carried on the paper ver}- irregidarly eight or ten months, when he failed : and. for a time. iMansfield was with- out a paper. In 1823, James Purdy arrived in the town, purchased the establishment and commenced the publication of a Whig and Masonic paper called the ^lansfield Gazette. He purchased the establishment on credit, giving his personal notes therefor, took possession and employed John C. Gilkison as printer. He soon discovered that the type was too much worn to print a readable paper, and. mounting his horse, rode to Cincinnati, purchased a new font on credit and returned with it in his sad die-bags. Thus the first really permanent

��*Mr. Gilkison must have been mistaken about the number of houses. Mr. James Purdy, Mrs. Smith, Dr. Bushnell and other old residents place the number of dwellings at that time from eighteen to thirty.

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