Towson University - Tower Echoes Yearbook (Towson, MD)

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History of The Mairyiauci State Noirmatll Sehooi ARYLAND was the seventh State to make any move toward the education ol trained teachers. The Act of I865. providing a uniform System of Free Public Schools for the State of Maryland. made it one of the duties of the State Board cf Education to organize a State Normal School for the instruction and practice of teachers of Public Schools in the Science et Edttcation and the Art of Teaching and Mode of Governing Schools. There was great delay in opening the school due to the difficulty of procuring rooms. However. Dr. M. A. Newell was elected principal of the school and he after having visited institutions for the education of teachers in Pennsylvania. New Jersey. Massachusetts and Connecticut. devised a system- atic plan of operation. a complete curriculum for Normal School and the model and experimental school. The school was not opened until the l5th of January. l866. lt was located in Red Mans Hall. Paca Street near Fayette lincidentally one of the noisiest sections of the cityl. Although the school had opened with only eleven students. the number steadily increased until at the close of the season. June 8. there were fortyaeight names on the roll. There was good reason to believe that the school would reopen in September with largely increased numbers. At this time, each county was entitled to send to the Normal School. two students for each member of the House of Delegates and one for each Senator. thus making a total of I8-4 county students. Persons desiring to enter the school were instructed to apply to the School Commissioners of his or her county. Female applicants had to be sixteen years of age: male applicants, seventeen: and had to give evidence of good moral character and fair elementary education. If the quota for that county was nlled. the candidate had to apply to the State Superintendent. accompanying his application with a recommendation from his County Board of School Commissioners. Those candidates who pledged themselves to teach in the Public Schools of Maryland had nothing to pay for tuition or books. A limited number of students would be received without such a pledge on paying 325 a session and furnishing their own books. Boarding was to be had in the city at from four to five dollars a week. There were both Academic and Professional courses of instruction. The junior class. in preparation for work that was to follow, was given a review of all elementary subjects-spelling. reading. writing. arithmetic. geography. algebra. rhetoric. English literature. and natural science. Special attention was given to drawing. vocal music. calisthenics and to Introduction into Primary and Grammar Cmrades. The subjects embraced in the Professional courses were History of Pub- lic Schools and Popular Education. the Philosophv of Mind. Education as a Positive Science. Teaching as an Art, Methods of Instruction. Classification. Government and Discipline. the School Law of Maryland in relation to ?izens. teachers and school officers. duties and qualification of Public School eachers. Fil' I een

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1932 CRYSTAL A beginning of a library had been made. with expectations of additions each year. lt is interesting to note the names of students of M. S. N. S. at the time of Mr. Newe1l's administration with those of today. A few are: Maggie Lawrence. Sallie Gamble. Lizzie Spedlen. Fannie Markland. and Angie Downs. During this first administration. the location of the school was changed twice. In 1872. the school was established in the Athenaeum Club. Charles and Franklin. and in 1876. was changed to its third location. Lafayette and Carrollton Avenues. where it remained until 1915 when the school was moved out to Towson. Following Mr. Newe1l's administration. came E. B. Prettyman 11890- 19051 and G. W. Ward H905-19091. These two men continued the work with its ideals begun by Mr. Newell. During Miss Sarah E. Richmond's administration H907-19171 the Maryland State Normal School changed both its home and its curriculum. The General Assembly of Maryland at the session of 1912. passed an act authorizing the issuing of a loan of 8600.000 for the purchase of land and the erection and construction of a building. including dormitories. for the School. The buildings. which are beautifully located on the high ground on the west side of the York Road at Towson. Baltimore County. cost more than 3700.000 and occupy a portion of a site of 88 acres which was purchased at a cost of 383.735, Two courses were offered: the professional and the academic. The professional course of study in the Junior year consisted of Pedagogy. Psyf chology. Art of Teaching. Review of Grammar. History. Observation in the Model School, English. History of English Literature. Studies in English Literature. History and Civil Government. Science. Physics. Biology. Art. Drawing. Vocali Music. Vocal Expression. Manual Training and Physical Training. The second year of the professional course offered: Pedagogy. Psychology. Principles of Teaching. School Management and Law. History of Education. Review of Geography. Arithmetic. English. Practice Teaching. Science. Nature Study. History including the Constitution of the U. S. and Maryland. Art. Vocal Music. Vocal Expression and Physical Training. The Academic Department offered in its course of study for Juniors: English. Composition and Rhetoric. History. both Ancient andf Medieval, Mathematics. Algebra. Science, Physical Geography. Botany. Latin. Art. Draw- ing. Vocal Music. Vocal Expression. Manual Training. and Physical Training. In 1918. Dr. Henry S. West. who came here to Maryland. his home state. after an interesting period of teaching at the University of Cincinnati. developed supervision of the boarding students. A new note in the history of the school was reached in September. 1921. under Miss Tal1's administration. when the school accepted only graduates from an approved high school thereby eliminating the teaching of high school work at the Normal School and cutting the course down to two years. Later in 1927. the Legislature passed a bill requiring that all applicants to State- aided institutions in Maryland must secure the recommendation of high school principals. and still later in 1929 a law was passed admitting in full standing only high school students who had received 60? A and B grades in the last two years of high school, with 4092 C grades. fContr'n1.1ed on page 951 Sixteen