San Jose State College - La Torre Yearbook (San Jose, CA)

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school educaTion or iTs equivalenT To enroll in The school. The Board adopTed The resoluTion, and iT wenT inTo eTTecT in I9OI. When The school was TirsT esTablished, iT oTTered a one-year course oT sTudy. ln T876 a Three-year course was adopTed. WiTh The new admissions requiremenT in I9Ol, The school changed To a Two-year plan and remained ThaT way unTil I92l. The course was Then expanded To Two and a halT years, laTer To Three years, and Tinally To a Tour-year curriculum in l93O. A second caTasTrophe occurred on The morning oT April l8, I906. On ThaT daTe, The San Francisco earThqualce broughT hearT- ache and disasTer To The enTire sTaTe, as well as The college. The Normal School building, while sTill sTanding, was damaged by The quake, and again classes were moved To local schools in The San Jose area. PresidenT Morris Elmer Dailey appealed To The sTaTe Tor emergency Tunds and almosT immediaTely received 2529.000 By SepTember oT l906, The building was again ready Tor use. ln OcTober oT ThaT year, however, The Board oT TrusTees was advised by experTs To desTroy The old building and erecT a new one. As a resulT, a new sTrucTure arose in l9IO, The same main building in use Today. FirsT The Tire, Then The earThgualce, Then The sTill, small voice, which on July 5, I9I9, called Morris Elmer Dailey To The land beyond. l-le was head oT This insTiTuTion Tor nineTeen years. When we survey The lisT oT pasT school presidenTs, we cannoT help buT single ouT The name oT Morris Elmer Dailey, Tor special disTincTion. The presenT Morris Dailey AudiTorium was named in honor oT This greaT educaTor. The school's early presTige, growTh and inTluence on The educa- Tional liTe oT The sTaTe are monumenTs To him. l-le is remembered as a man loved by boTh TaculTy and sTudenTs. Following compleTion oT The Morris Dailey assembly hall in 1920, The college grew sTeadily, acquiring buildings Tor The arT deparTmenT in l924 and The women's gymnasium in I928. The growTh conTinued Through The presidency oT Dr. Thomas W. MacQuarrie, To whom much oT The college academic and physical growTh can be aTTribuTed. Since Dr. John T. WahlquisT became presidenT in I952, The insTiTuTion's expansion and developmenT have been phenomenal. WiTh greaT ToresighT, Dr. WahlquisT has careTully planned a program oT building expansion and enhance- menT oT academic presTige. ln Tour years, consTrucTion has included an engineering building, a music building, a speech and drama building, and addiT'ions To The men's physical educaTion

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was almosT compleTely desTroyed by Tire. Only The larger parT oT The old library was saved. The Tire represenTed a loss oT 5304.000 as well as The desTrucTion oT years oT work by The curaTor oT The museum, The boTany Teacher, and oThers. Once again The Normal School moved To a high school building. On The day aTTer The Tire, The Board oT TrusTees and The principal, Charles l-l. Allen, meT and compleTed plans Tor The reopening oT The school. By lvlay oT l874, a new building cosTing El5l48,936.36 was ready Tor use. AcTually, The sTaTe appropriaTed Sl00,000 and insurance covered 550.000, so The sTaTe was reTunded Sl ,063.05. The maior crediT Tor handling The Tinances and Tor overseeing The work wenT To lvlr. Allen, The principal. ln March oT l88l, The Legislarure esTablished The second oT The Normal Schools in Los Angeles CounTy. This school was acTually a branch oT The San Jose Normal School, wiTh The local Board oT TrusTees aT San Jose exercising conTrol over iT. In l887, The second branch Normal School lThird in alll was builT aT Chico and opened in l889. ThaT year, The sTaTe seT up a separaTe board oT TrusTees Tor each Normal School. ln l92l , The sTaTus oT The Normal Schools was changed by The legislaTure, and all oT Them were made Teachers' Colleges. ThaT year, a ioinT board consisTing oT school TrusTees, The governor, sTaTe superinTendenT, and college presidenTs was esTab- lished Tor The purpose oT uniTying The course oT sTudy, sTandard- izing TexTboolc reguiremenTs, and eliminaTing peTTy rivalries. ln ThaT same year The local boards were abolished. An annual meeTing oT STaTe Board Members wiTh local college presidenTs and oTher represenTaTives was arranged. Today's counTerparT oT ThaT early board is The STaTe College PresidenTs' Council. l-lowever, The goal oT eliminafing rivalry among The STaTe Colleges has never been aTTained. The basis Tor admission To Normal School was simple. Females oT TiTTeen years or over, or any male oT The age oT eighTeen or over, shall be enTiTled To admission as pupils in such Normal and experimenTal school, upon declaring in wriTing To The SuperinTen- denT oT Public lnsTrucTion his or her inTenTions To engage perma- nenTly in Teaching in The common schools oT This sTaTe, said The original acT. By 1870, The permanency clause was dropped. ln January oT l900, The Normal Board oT TrusTees heard a resoluTion submiTTed by SuperinTendenT Thomas J. Kirlc, raising The sTandards oT The school by allowing only individuals wiTh a high

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deparTmenT, The library, and The science deparTmenT. Under consTrucTion are a Three-sTory classroom building and an adminis- TraTion building. To be Tollowed by a caTeTeria, sTudenT acTiviTies building and possibly an arTs building. FuTure developmenr plans include exTension oT The campus To The easT and souTh. AlThough Too much emphasis cannoT be placed on The physical and academic growTh oT The college, no hisTorical slceTch would be compleTe or oT genuine sTudenT inTeresT unless iT Told oT The Tremendous expansion in The area oT sTudenT acTiviTies and sTudenT governmenT. One imporTanT phase oT sTudenT acTiviTy has been The develop- menT oT sTudenT publicaTions. The SparTan Daily and l.a Torre have rooTs in The old Normal PennanT. The school's TirsT real aTTempT aT esTablishing a publicaTion Tor periodic producTion. The PennanT was a monThly wiTh a special yearly ediTion, The predecessor To The presenT yearbook. ln IQIO, This monThly paper was replaced by a semi-monThly called The Normal Times, which concerned iTselT wiTh sTudenT aTTairs. This iournalisTic eTForT seT many SparTan Daily precedenTs. The paper's name was changed again To The College Times, Then To STaTe Teacher's College Times. Finally in I933, iT became The SparTan Daily. The Normal PennanT disconTinued publicaTion in l9IO and was Tollowed in IQI6 by La Torre. which is Spanish Tor The Tower. The name remains Today. The TeaTure magazine, l.yke, was inspired by a group oT l945 sTudenTs who TelT The need Tor such a campus publicaTion. ln I946. The TirsT issue oT Lycurgus appeared, and in December, I948, The name was shorTened To l.ylce. ln our hisTorical research on The sTudenT governmenT, we Tind Thar l-larrieT E. Q'uilTy became The TirsT presidenT oT The STudenT Body. STudenT governmenT never really goT going, however, unTil l909, when Loyd T. Bell became presidenT. AT ThaT Time, a new consTiTuTion was adopTed which gave sTudenTs conTrol oT Their own social acTiviTies. In I923, The name oT The governmenT was changed To AssociaTed STudenT Body. lTs income is derived Trom The sale oT sTudenT body cards and Trom a campus book sTore proceeds. The ASB has grown Tremendously. IT has esTablished a courT, many commiTTees. and class council, and iT has imainTained iuris- dicTion over sTudenT publicaTions and acTiviTies.