The first year of Ball State : personal and policy conflicts, 1918-1919 : an honors thesis (HONRS 499)

Abstract

This paper discusses the various issues confronted between 1918 and 1919 by the Eastern Division of the Indiana State Normal School, which became Ball State Teacher's College. The primary emphasis is placed upon how the administrators and faculty approached and dealt with the controversies and conflicts during this school's first year of operation. Letters of correspondence between the Eastern Division and the Terre Haute Division of Indiana State Normal School were the most crucial resource by which the dialogue between the two schools was reconstructed.