Millersville University - Touchstone Yearbook (Millersville, PA)

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19 3 1 T H E I O I C II S T O N E • • • • Seniors First Term Select Plays of Aeschylus A Play of Terence Acoustics and Optics Mental Philosophy Second Term A Dialogue of Plato A Play of Plautus Mechanics Moral Philosophy Text hooks were furnished for cash at Philadelphia retail prices. Students desiring to do so could rent their hooks by paying one cent a week for each hook, provided that they were returned clean and uninjured: if returned otherwise the full price of the hook was charged. From an 1863 64 catalogue: “Millersvillc is a pleasant, rural village, situated three miles from Lancaster city. A fine turnpike road connects the two places, and omnibuses leaving Reese's Motel, near the Railroad Depot, connect with the principal trains. The fare from Lancaster to the school is fifteen cents.” And concerning the government of the school there is hut one rule, viz:— Do Right. The reason upon which is founded the particular regulations which it has been thought necessary to adopt may he found upon making an application of the two following principles: First, No student should he allowed to trespass upon the rights or privileges of another. Second, Privileges that all cannot enjoy should he granted to none. Several of the student regulations im- Miriam Frantz Ismauttr, Pa. Lyk r Ft i a . r posed during the Civil War and continued until quite recently were: 1. Kach student is recommended to provide himself with slippers, that in passing up and down the stairways or through the halls, he can walk quietly. No one must indulge in loud talking, whistling or other unnecessary noise in the buildings. 2. The use of tobacco in any form is strictly prohibited in the buildings or about the grounds. 3. The students shall repair to their riMuns at the ringing of the hell for evening study and not leave them without the permission of the teacher in charge; and, in twenty minutes, from the ringing of the retiring hell, all lights must he extinguished, and all noise cease. 4. Students are allowed to walk for exercise in the vicinity of the school, hut no one, otherwise, will absent himself, without permission from the Principal. 5. It is expected that the ladies and gentlemen of the In-st it lit ion will treat one another with politeness, hut no conversation between the sexes must take place in the I-ecture Room, in the Recreation Rooms, or in the Halls. At the close of the evening lectures or society meeting, all will repair immediately to their respective rooms. Neither sex will he expected to trespass upon that portion of the building assigned to the other. 6. No lady or gentleman attending this Institution, will walk or ride with a person of the opposite sex, except in case of necessity; and, then, only with Anne Frey lAincaiter, Pa. Ticon Iy-one

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John W. Fox Lebanon, Pa. T II K I O V : II S T O N V. March. Pennsylvania perhaps has not the honor of being the first State to conceive it: hut the good old Dutch County of the State which has given a demonstration of its practicability and utility. The little village of Millcrsvillc has the proud honor of being a pioneer and a prime leader in the Normal School movement in this State.” The reader may wonder how much the students were charged to attend this Normal School during its early existence. The school year was divided into two cfpial sessions, the first session beginning on the first Monday in April and continuing for twenty-two weeks, the second session beginning on the second Monday in October, and also continuing for twenty-two weeks. The students had three weeks of Spring vacation und five weeks vacation in the Fall. The charge for tuition in the common or higher Knglish branches was $7.50 for a quarter of eleven weeks.Studentswereeompelled to pay for all extras, such as language, music, etc. laitin, Greek, German and French cost $2.50 each. A course in oil painting was given at $6.00 extra: drawing ami penmanship $3.00; music lessons on the piano $8.00; use of the instrument,$.00. Hoard was $2.00 a week. Light and washing. $.25. How many students today would approve of this required Classical Course as copied from the 1858 catalogue? “This course is designed to prepare teachers for Classical High Schools. To he admitted to the Freshman Class, a student must possess a thorough knowledge of Geography. Knglish, Grammar. Ruth C. Fox Palmyra. Pa. 19 3 1 Arithmetic, Elements of Algebra. History of thcUnited States, Latin und Greek Grammar, Caesar (two hooks). Virgil (four hooks of the Acncid), Greek Reader, and two hooks of the Anabasis. The fol-I o w i n g are the studies of the several classes: Frksiimf.n First Term Anabasis Sallust and Ovid Higher Algebra Rhetoric Second Term Iliad Livy Geometry I Five Hooks) Zoology or Hotanv Sophomores First Term Memoruhilia Cicero Geometry Completed General History Second Term Herodotus Horace Trigonometry ami Surveying Chemistry Juniors First Term Select Plays of Sophocles Juvenal Conic Selections and Analytical Geometry Geology Second Term Select Plays of Euripedes Tacitus Astronomy Differential and Integral Calculus Twenty

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1 9 3 1 T II K T O I CHS T O N E • • • the permission of the Principal. No per mission will be given for parties or excursions composed of the two 6cxcs. “The Male and Female departments are entirely separate, and will be judiciously controlled. Both sexes, however, meet in lectures ami in recitations; and we think the presence of each has a beneficial effect upon the other. From the catalogue 1865-66, concerning state appropriations to students and graduates. “By a recent Act of the Legislature, the following appropriations are made by the State to Normal Students and Graduates: 1. Each student over seventeen years of age, who shall sign a paper declaring his intent ion to teach in the Common Schools of the Slate, shall receive the sum of Fifty cents per week toward defraying the expenses of tuition and boarding. 2. Each student over seventeen years of age. who was disabled in the naval or military service of the L'nitcd States or of Pennsylvania or whose father lost his life in said service, and who shall sign an agreement us above, shall receive the sum of one dollar per week. 3. Each student who upon graduating shall sign an agreement to teach in the Common Schools of the State two full years, shall receive the sum of Fifty Dollars. 4. Any Student to secure these benefits must attend the school at least onn term of twelve consecutive weeks. These benefits arc to be deducted from the regular expenses of board and tuition. The Normal School continued to Sarah Gemmill Sunnyburn, I'a. flourish and each year found the enrollment becoming lurgcr. Today the enrollment is approximately 600 students. With the steady increase in enrollment year after year came the necessity for larger quarters. A building program was started and each decade something new was added. The courses and methods of instruction were constantly changed to meet the demand. The continued strides of the school were due not a little to the combined efforts of the seven men who headed and head the Institution. Dr. James P. Wickersham was the first Principal of Millersvillc State Normal School and remained at the head until 1866. when he resigned to become the State Superintendent of Schools. He was succeeded by Dr. Edward Brooks, who served as Principal for a period of seventeen years, until 1883. Professor B. F. Shaub was then elected and remained for a period of four years. Dr. E. Orem Lytc served as Principal from 1887 until 1912. a period of twenty-five years. Dr. P. M. Harhold, now head of the Department of Education at Franklin and Marshall College, served as the school head until 1918. Dr. C. II. Gordinier was Principal from then until 1929, when Dr. Landis Tanger, former Superintendent of Reading Schools was elected as President. Much credit must be assigned these men. some of whom gave the best years of their lives to see Millersvillc advance i nd take its place among the best colleges. Helen L. George Ismdenburg, Pa. T went y-two