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CHICAGO NORMAL COLLEGE YESTERDAY TODAY In the days of yore, when the dashing M. T. drove the fair co-ed to the prom in Father ' s best buggy, Cook County Normal School stood in the midst of twen- ty acres of natural park. An ele- mentary school was connected with it. The out-of-town students hoop-skirted to classes from the Students ' Hall, a boarding and rooming house. Thirty-ninth street marked Chicago ' s city limits. The Cook County Normal School was locat- ed at Normalville, just seven miles south of the Court House. What a metropolis was the Meat Packer of the World then! The township of Lake gave the
county the site for the school and $25,000 in cash, with the under- standing that it should be used for Normal School purposes only. The first high school was estab- lished in 185 5. Later a Normal Department providing a two-year course was opened. This, then, was the preparation ne e d e d for the full-fledged scho o 1 m a r m of 18 5 6. Requirements were raised slightly in 1872, when can- didates had to pass a simple examination. In 1875, the north, south, and west sec- tions of Chicago boasted high schools. The graduates burn- ed no midnight oil in preparing for entrance examina- tions, for these were not required of Normal School entrants of that time. From 1877 to 1892, Chicago had no public teacher-training in- stitution. If a high school gradu- ate passed the teacher ' s examina- tion, she entered the school as a cadet. When she had mastered the science of teaching, she was assign- ed to a room of her own. A train- ing class for cadets was opened at the Hoyne School in 1892. In 1896, the Board of Educa- tion assumed possession of the Nor mal School. Colonel Francis Park- er, served as principal of the Chicago Nor- mal School until 1899. The course w a s, at first, s i x months in length but it was soon increased to one year. A two- -j- |l year course was in- IJ ' augurated and kept for a long time. The three-year course is a ■ ' iV ' recent improvement. Now we have the Chicago Normal College, the Parker Practice, and the Arts and Gymnasium Buildings, and the students come tripping quickly from the Rock Island station at eight thirty-one, and rush to their first hour classes at eight fifty- nine. . jt a. » 9 «
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