Chicago State University - Emblem Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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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

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J 7jf T ' vf -- ' ' ■ - iTT KTr s HlB ft ™ fii r 5 i !!, II iiflii |l li |jT -: -.,-ste ■■ In 1905 the Chicago Normal College moved into a new building on the site of the old school. All that remains of the old County Building is the weather-worn corner stone, inscribed with the date 1869 and the names of some of those instrumental in the erection of the building. Dr. William Bishop Owen was appointed principal of the college in 1909, and it was under his competent direction that the school did much of its expanding. The three practice schools, Parker, Hanes and Carter, which had been in vogue since 1902, were discontinued in 1920. They were succeeded by fifty co-operating schools, spread well over the city, to which students were assigned for a ten-week practice period. The Arts and Gymnasium building, with its wonderful shops, its gymnasium and Its swimming pool, was opened in 1915. It was at this time that the physical health of the College became a genuine factor Late in 1924 there was a general revision of the campus in line with the establishing of tennis courts and athletic fields for the schools lodged in the buildings of the college. A greenhouse containing three classrooms and several specimen rooms was begun and completed in the spring of 192 . Thus the science department was given a much wider scope. The Chicago Normal College of today includes five buildings and a large, beautiful campus enclosed by a stately fence from end to end. It has almost two thousand students enrolled in the Elementary, University-Teachers, Kindergarten, Household Arts, Manual Training, and the newly added Physical Education and Recreation groups. The new additions typify the progressive spirit of the college, ever widening Its scope of education and leading others onward in the march of educational progress and ingenuity. Few people ever realized that the college which had its humble be- ginning in a high school, as a special department, would ever reach the heights that it now rests upon, a respected institution of a great city. Page thirteen