Chicago State University - Emblem Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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Campus

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College Building

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THE CHICAGO NORMAL COLLEGE ty dnd many studtntN The Chicago Normal College today with its fine fa vastly different from the first school of teacher-training. It was in 18 ' 6 that a department for training teachers was established by the cit for the first time. It was merely an additional course in the Central High School The following year Edward C. Delano was put at its head and he continued to direct the Normal School work in Chicago for t wenty years. In 1865 a practice school which had long been recommended was established at the Scammon School under the direction of Mrs. Ella Flagg Young. Pupils were permitted to enter the Normal School upon examination directly from the grammar schools. After 1872 all candidates were required to pass an examination, ' not only in the common branches, but also in the studies pursued in the first year of high schools, this being the highest re quirement, so far as is known, of any state or county normal in the countr it that time. In 1871 the school became a separate institution, but m 1876, because of m l cess of teachers, the school was closed. This excess was brought aKiut by the tlimint tion of entrance examinations. A training class for cadets was organi::ed in 189? in the North Division of the cit Three years later the Cook County Normal School, established in 1863, and the city cadet system were consolidated in the building of the County School, with the name of Chicago Normal School and under the control of the city Board of Education The Board had voted to accept the Cook County Normal School property and tn maintain the Normal School for the benefit of Chicago and Cook County with no change in its management. Colonel Parker was continued as the principal, serving in that capacity until his resignation in 1 899. Dr. Arnold Tompkins succeeded him as the head of the school, which position he held until his death in 1905. Mrs Ella Flagg Young then became principal, but in 1909 she became superintendent of schools and the post was again vacant. Page tii ' clvd