Kent State University - Chestnut Burr Yearbook (Kent, OH)

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THE 1944 CiicslTlut Btirr The Story of Kent State University In Nineteen Forty-Four, by the Student Body. Recorded by Jane McDowell, Editor . . . Herbert Koehn, Business Manager.

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-• £ -M. - - ►( - } •►- y »- ►- KENT STATE Its Past.. Its Present.. Its Future. TN the spring of 1910 a legislative act was passed by the General Assembly of Ohio ■ that authorized establishing two normal schools. Governor Harmon appointed a com- mission to select the site of the schools, and in December of that year Kent was chosen to be the home of one of these new institutions. Early the following year, 1911, the first board of trustees was appointed, appropriations were made for two buildings, and Dr. J. E. McGilvery was elected the first president of Kent State Normal School. The first years were not easy. Classes held in the spring of 1913 met in tents on the front campus because the buildings were not yet com- pleted. President McGilvery had his office downtown above the bank, and it bore no re- semblance to the fine office the present executive of Kent now occupies. It was bare, and cold and Dr. McGilvery says, . . . so many holes in the floor you didn ' t dare drop a pencil.