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Title: Annual circular of information
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Northwestern State College of Louisiana
Subjects: Northwestern State College of Louisiana
Publisher: Natchitoches, La. : Louisiana State Normal School
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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. The silo will be of 150 tons capacity. The milk roomwill be erected at a point halfway between the barn and thedining hall. The whole barn and dairy are in charge of anexpert dairyman. Swimming Pool.—For the use of the young ladies of theboarding club, a concrete swimming pool is provided. Its dimen-sions are 80x20 feet; its depth varies from 4 feet 10 inches atthe ends to 6 feet in the center. During spring, summer, andfall, the pool is emptied and filled several times per week. Thewater used is from the salt well near the power house. Thiswater is, in saline content and general appearance, almost iden-tical with sea water. Courses in swimming are offered to stu-dents during the spring, summer and fall quarters. The pool isprovided with ten dressing rooms, each of which has a showerbath equipment for the use of students before entering andafter leaving the pool. Light and Heat.—All dormitories, including the dining hall,are heated by steam, the Warren-Webster system being used.
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The Normal Quarterly 13 The main academic building is heated by air warmed as it en-ters the building fresh from outside. The Power House supplies electricity for lighting purposes,for the laundry, and for the operation of fans in the class-roomsduring the summer quarter. Electric irons are furnished freefor the use of students in several dormitories. The Infirmary occupies a large room on the second floor ofthe old Model School building. It is in charge of a graduatenurse, who is in constant attendance upon those who may besick or indisposed. Land.—Besides the original tract purchased by the town andparish of Natchitoches for the use of the Normal School, addi-tional land has recently been purchased. The school now owns267 acres of land. The campus occupies about twenty-five acres;the athletic grounds, eight acres; the garden, ten acres; the fields,thirty acres; the pecan grove, twenty-five acres; the remainderbeing in open and wood pasture. GENERAL EQUIPMENT. THE MODEL SCHOOL. As

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