University of Northern Iowa - Old Gold Yearbook (Cedar Falls, IA)

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THE 0LD GOLD 191© 4 fntr July 1, 1909, introduced a new regime for the normal school at Cedar Falls. On this day the Board of Trustees held the last meeting, completed the records for the thirty-three years that the duty of management had been conferred upon its members, and accepted a formal receipt for the property of the State that was thus transferred by law to the State Board of Education. In this way the first system of management, which belonged to a remarkable period of educational development in the United States, passed into history. “The Iowa State Normal School,” so named by the first Board in 1876, was dropped as an official title for this educational institution, and “The Iowa State Teachers College” became the permanent designation by the act of the Thirty-third General Assembly. As a consequence, new books were opened, new plans were formulated, new notions of methods of conducting business were adopted, while a new era of development and progress was inaugurated. It was then that the institution put oft the old and put on the new; it was thus that it said good-by to its old friends who were known as tried and true, and welcomed the new friends who by legislative act assumed control, and came ambitious and hopeful to aid in producing yet better things for institutional development and improvement. The work of the year has been one of adaptation and reorganization, adjustment and management, discussion and determination, rather than any enlargement or expansion. Such a condition means conservation and intensive development more than an endeavor to increase courses of study or multiply activities and enterprises. The results have been the deeper grounding of the fundamentals, the more definite interpre- tation of the functions, and the greater appreciation of the standards and efficiencies that a college should possess. This year the departments have been conducted by Head professors who have had the authority to control and direct the work more fully than at any previous time. This plan of organization has systematized the management, and has given more responsibility to those selected as heads, testing thereby their capability as executives as well as their power as teachers. Such respon- sibilities have required a larger kind of success of such persons, because it has demanded growth in wisdom, in administration and in adaptability to others who arc subordinated, to a degree that the past has never known. Amid all these executive changes there has been a co-operative spirit shown, and a generosity of personality manifested, that needs to be seen to be fully appreciated. Prosperity has been very marked, good feeling has been general, and the good of the students has received unqualified attention from all the members of the Faculty. 9

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 NEW LIBRARY

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THE OLD GOLD 191© The outlook for the future of the Teachers College is very promising. Its Bachelor of Arts graduates have been granted admission to the graduate colleges of the best universities on the same terms as that allowed graduates of liberal arts colleges. Its new name has conferred dignity and honor, and brought it esteem at home and abroad. The business of the College has been judiciously cared for monthly by the Finance Committee, which audits the bills, hears requests, adopts policies, approves plans and investigates problems that need solution. The State Board of Education has taken charge of the inspection of secondary schools for the three institutions, and appointed an experienced educator for that work; it has brought about harmony in the standards expected for entrance to the Freshman class, it is unifying the business methods so as to make the conducting of the institutions simpler and more effective, while it has devoted itself earnestly and continuously to make each of these institutions better and stronger than they are at present. Its policy implies quality rather than quantity, intensiveness rather than extensiveness, effectiveness rather than largeness. PRESIDENT'S HOUSE 10