MARTHA CARR FIVE STAR Edition

Dear Martha Carr: My mother, who died recently, always bragged that both her parents (born in 1879 and 1871) had gone to college after finishing high school. In going over some of her personal papers, I discovered that my grandmother went to a "normal school" (not specified as a college) f...

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Published inSt. Louis post-dispatch
Main Author Carr, Martha
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published St. Louis, Mo Pulitzer, Inc 04.02.1993
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Summary:Dear Martha Carr: My mother, who died recently, always bragged that both her parents (born in 1879 and 1871) had gone to college after finishing high school. In going over some of her personal papers, I discovered that my grandmother went to a "normal school" (not specified as a college) for two years, and my grandfather "read for the bar." I looked in the World Almanac for "Normal School" and found nothing. Also, what is "read for the bar" and what college does one attend to do it? B.L. Your mother may have thought that any education beyond high school was considered to be "college," although neither normal school nor reading for the bar was necessarily done on a college campus. A normal school was a professional school, usually state supported, that provided courses to train people - primarily high school graduates - to become teachers. Although such a school may not be considered a college, per se, it was considered advanced education.