Chicago State University - Emblem Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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378.773 C53«? Chicago Teachers College. 1916 Emblem. DATE DUE ebication tl)e principal anb Jfacultp of t )t Chicago i ormal College toe bedicate t )i Ijolumr, in appreciation for tfje patient sierfaice tfjep i atit renberet) us! anb in tfje fjope not onlp tljat tW boofe map in siome measure sifjoto tfje fruit= ful results; of tljeir effort, but tljat our entire future libes map serbe to express our gratefulness for tfje priceless grototl) in potoer tobicf) toe otoe to tfjeir untiring efforts.

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' She EMBLEM Chicago NORMAL College JUNE, 1916

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% ummmm ED □ o a a The College THE Chicago Normal College as it stands today with its splendid faculty, fine buildings, and large body of students, is quite a differ- ent place from what it was in its beginning. For when in 1856, a department for training teachers was established in the city for the first time, it was merely an additional course in the Central High School. Later the department assumed a more professional tone when it became a School of Practice in the Scammon School building under Mrs. Ella Flagg Young. Until 1870 no entrance examinations were required and students were freely admitted on high school certificates. The examina- tions then established were discontinued after five years, and then such an influx of students came from all over the country that the supply of teachers far exceeded the demands, and the school was given up for fifteen years. During that time high school graduates who passed sat- isfactory teachers ' examinations and cadetships were given positions. In 1893 the City Normal School, as it was then called, was reopened with Miss Theresa McGuire and our Mrs. Hardinge as instructors. Three years later, 1896, the property on which the College now stands was given to the Board of Education to maintain a Normal School for Chicago and Cook County. New ideas of education were worked out here, for Colonel Parker, the principal, was a radical and a reformer setting up against the old mechanical methods, a new spirit of fresh contact between teacher and pupil. Practical teaching under the guidance of critic-teacher and college supervisors was instituted. The kindergarten and manual train- ing departments had their start, and in 1906, the deaf-oral department under Miss Mary McCowen was established in the school. In 1905 the old Cook County building was replaced by the one now in use, and in 1915 was added the new Arts Building with its gymnasium and swimming tank providing for the physical health of the College and its fuller development. But by far the greatest infiuence in the College was the principal- ship of Mrs. Ella Flagg Young, beginning in 1908. Then it was that the school began to take the position of dignity in the educational world which it holds today under Mr. Owen ' s competent direction. It is well to remember that there have been big people on our faculty in the past and that there are now. Charlotte McCarthw