Illinois State Normal University - Index Yearbook (Normal, IL)

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The Index, 1906 divided into' the classical, theological, and agricultural depart- ments. Mr. Howe was principal and executive head of the ele- mentary and secondary schools, including the grades, high school, normal school, and college preparatory departments. The engagement at Talladega occupied eight months of each year, and during the remaining four months, when be- cause of the climate northern people- cannot well remain in Ala- bama, Mr. Howe was pursuing his studies at various schools in the north. Special work was done at the Chautauqua Sum- mer School in economics and psychology, and at Cornell Uni- versity in Mathematics. Tn 1887 Mr. Howe was elected professor of mathematics in the State Normal School at XVarrensburg', Missouri, the largest of the three state normal schools in Missouri. Here he re- mained fourteen years, being promoted to the vice-presidency in TSQ6, and to the presidency after the death of Mr. Usborne which occurred in November, 1898. In 1888, by advanced credits on work done at the Gswego Normal School, Cornell University and elsewhere, and by ex- amination, Mr. Howe was awarded the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy by the Illinois Wfesleyan University. Then during a period of twelve years he worked on the non-resident post- graduate course of the same institution and in IQ00 he received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Some special work was also done at the University of Chicago during this time. In the fall of IQOI Mr. Howe was invited to come to the Illinois State Normal University to succeed Mr. Felmley as head of the department of mathematics. He has conducted this department during the 'nve years with credit to himself and great satisfaction to the hundreds of students and teachers who have taken his work. In 1893 Mr. Howe was married to Miss Lillian M. Stearns, of Kansas City, a former pupil of his at XVarrensburg. Mrs. Howe's mother was an Emerson and a distant relative of the author of the same name. Mr. Howe has been prominent in the church and social life of Normal and Bloomington. He organized and taught a bible class of thirty or forty young people in the Sunday school of the Presbyterian church at Normal until he was invited to be- come the superintendent of the Sunday school of the Second Presbyterian church at Bloomington. He is also a member of the Normal Literary Center and of the College Alumni Club of Bloominoton. g 8 XV1L1.1AM T. BAVVDEN. b 5

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The Index, 1906 Retrospect and Prospect. The lllinois State Normal University is about to enter on its hftieth year. Its past is rich in tradition, glorious in achieve- ment. Great teachers presided in its class rooms, its students went forth filled with high resolve. From Boston to the Golden Gate they have made a profound impress upon the educational thought and practice of the age. Change is the law of life. Educational institutions of the most venerable antiquity retain their prestige and their reputa- tion only as they respond to the instant needs of the humanity they serve. Hence the most worthy tribute we can pay to the virtues of the great souls of other days is not to copy after their prac- tice, but rather to press forward with their spirit. W7 e honor them not by dofng as they did, but by doing as they would do now. The last Eve years have seen much in the way of material advance. The annual appropriation for running expenses has risen from S3Q,5OO to 9E61,300, the monthly payroll from 33,- 250 to 34,280 The buildings have been improved and adorned, new equipment and apparatus purchased, the grounds beauti- lied with shrubs, vines, and flowers. The attendance in the regular terms is 21 per cent less than in 1900-01 3 but the low point was reached two years ago. The enrollment of the present term is Q5 larger than in May, 1904. The summer school has shown an astonishing growth from 444 in 1900 to 916 in 1905. For the summer of 1906 twenty- one additional teachers are employed. But mere expansion in number and resources is not the growth to be sought for. Quantity and quality are both factors of the final product, and in twentieth century education quality is to have the leading place. The old normal school made its reputation on the thoroness of its instruction in the common branches. Little else was taught in the common schools forty years ago, Now the field of education has wideiied, f,XX2e-Qseiigl Vf