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fashion in which other states governed their schools. Once the division was completed, President
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Indiana House of Representatives and became the chairman to the powerful Ways and Means Committee. Eventually Pittenger persuaded the Indiana General Assembly to separate the Ball Teachers College's budget from that of the Indiana State Normal School. Noting that this is the
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University Avenue. The building was built in the Collegiate Gothic Style and was dedicated in Benjamin Burris' name in 1928. The building remains as a public school serving grades Kindergarten through 12th grade as well as housing the
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in 1919. Hines named Burris his deputy superintendent. When Hines was named the
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