Chicago State University - Emblem Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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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