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Excerpt from The Exponent, 1912 Whose is it \nhy is it there? A brief answer to these questions may not be uninteresting to some who, perhaps, have never asked them, or thought about them, except in the vague, wondering way in which one is likely to think of things re mote in time or place. The original of the portrait was Ira More, the first perma ent principal of this school, who in the early years of its exist ance determined its character, and established the enviable rep utation it has ever since held in the community, and as time has gone on, in wider fields. Mr. More's connection with normal schools began al most with their beginning. He was one of a group of earnest men who owed their inspiration to Horace Mann, and under that inspiration carried the normal idea into many states, founding mother schools, nearly every one of which had at its head a man who, in turn, was a source of inspiration to those associated with him as teachers or students. Most of these men were graduates of one or the other of the two normal schools founded by Massachusetts in'1893' at Bridgewater and Framingham. Some of them had no wider training, but Mr. More was a graduate of Yale, as well as of the normal school at Bridgewater, and to that fact, no doubt, he was in part indebted for the vorrect judgment and the clearccut speech so characteristic of the man. 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.