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Title: Catalog and circular of the State Normal School, Bridgewater
Year: 1849 (1840s)
Authors: State Normal School at Bridgewater (Mass.)
Subjects: State Normal School at Bridgewater (Mass.)
Publisher: North Bridgewater, Mass. : (The School)
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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ents occupy one room. Each room has two closets, issupplied with furniture, including mattress and pillows, heated bysteam, lighted by gas and electricity, and thoroughly ventilated. InTillinghast Hall the rooms are supplied with two single beds, in theother halls with one double bed. No pains are spared to make thehalls a home for the students. The reading room is supplied withnewspapers, periodicals, and books for the use of the students. The regulations of the Board of Education require that the board-ers shall pay the current expenses, which include table board, heating,lighting, laundry, and service. The aim is to make these expensesnot more than eighty dollars a term for gentlemen, and for ladies notmore than seventy-five dollars a term. These rates are made on thebasis of two students occupying one room, and do not include boardduring the recess. An extra charge is made when a student has aroom to himself. This arrangement can be made when the roomsare not all taken. > o F I
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State Normal School, Bridgewater. 31 The assignment of rooms is made on the basis that those who havebeen longest in school shall have precedence in the choice of rooms.Tillinghast Hall is occupied chiefly by senior students. The assign-ment of rooms to students in the school is made just before the closeof the spring term. PAYMENTS. Forty dollars is to be paid by each gentlemen and thirty-sevenand a half dollars by each lady at the beginning of the term ; andthe same amount for each at the end of ten weeks from the beginningof each term. The object of this payment in advance is to securethe purchase of supplies at wholesale cash prices, thereby saving toeach boarder much more than the interest of the money advanced. FURNITURE. Each boarder is required to bring bedding, towels, napkins andnapkin ring, and clothes-bags. Each occupant will want, ordinarily,four pillow cases, three sheets, two blankets or their equivalent, andone coverlet for a double bed. Students occupying Tillinghast

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