Excerpt from Tenth Annual Catalog of the State Normal School at Springfield, South Dakota, for the Year 1906-1907 The State Normal School at Springfield was established by act of the territorial legislature in the year 1881. The state legislature in 1895 appropriated for the support and maintenance of the school forty thousand acres of land. In 1896 the citizens of Springfield erected a building on a tract of land donated by Hon. John A. Burbank, and presented it to the state. On the 23d day of September, 1897, the Regents of Education adopted a course of study and elected a faculty; the school Opened on Monday, October 11, 1897. In 1901-2 the main part of the building, of /which that built in 1896 is the west wing, was erected by the state. The Ladies' Dormi tory was built during the school year of 1904-5. 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.