Jefferson newspaper reported "more than 150...of all ages and sexes, and...all shades and colors." In 1875, there were 285. In 1881, a report of the Free-Will Baptists indicates that at Storer there were 200 enrolled students, 62 graduates, level unspecified, and the total number who had enrolled at some time was 800. The report also says that the College had "sent out" over 200 teachers and 25 preachers. In 1882–84 there were 63 enrolled in the three-year normal school training. In its first 20 years, the school trained hundreds of teachers from West Virginia, Ohio, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. In 1895 there were 250 graduates of the Normal Department. In 1901 there were 49 male and 73 female students. In 1931 there were 130 students, 52 at the junior college level and 78 at the high school level. Over its 90-year history, about 7,000 students enrolled. The Storer College Alumni Association has a 70-page list on its web site. As of the later 19th century students came from 14 states and 4 foreign countries. Curriculum Storer's first program was the normal program, preparing teachers. In 1872 Storer started its first academic, four-year department, the Seminary Course [high school]; it taught classics, including Latin, Greek, and Shakespeare, along with astronomy, algebra, geometry, and botany. This program, which graduated twenty-five students, languished after 1896. An industrial department teaching woodworking, printing, and blacksmithing was added in 1886. Domestic science became required for females in 1893, and girls were required to sew their own graduation gowns. A separate department of Biblical Literature emerged in 1895. Starting in 1899, when Storer's second president started, for graduation students had to complete these assigned readings: Political philosopher Edmund Burke, who supported the American Revolution. Abolitionist American writer Noah Webster. English Romantic poet William Wordsworth. American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. American writer Washington Irving. English novelist and abolitionist George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans). The abolitionist American poet John Greenleaf Whittier. Shakespeare. Student life From the outset and as late as 1887, students "of any state of advancement", who could "give satisfactory evidence of good moral character", were admitted on any day of the session, and placed by examination. According to Storer's first catalogue (1869), students were to "receive counsel and sympathy, learn what constitutes correct living, and become qualified for the great work of life". Every student was required to have a Bible and to attend chapel,