University of Wisconsin Oshkosh - Quiver Yearbook (Oshkosh, WI)

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L STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, OSHKOSH.

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tU GEORGE S. ALBEE, President, (University of Mich.’ School Supervision. History of Education. ROSE C SWART, University of Wbeonsin. Inspector of Practice Teaching. EMILY F. WEBSTER, Oshkosh Normal.' Mathematics. LYDON W. BRIGGS, Treasurer. Civics, Hook-Keeping, Penmanship. HARRIET E. CLARK, Oshkosh Normal, Boron School of Oratory. I'oiee Culture. Elocution. NANCY M. DAVIS, Oshkosh Normal- Geography. MARY E. APTHORP, Iowa College. Latin. HARRIET CECIL MAGEE, Ml. Holyoke College. Drawing. Social Culture. GEORGE M. BROWNE, Westfield Normal. Biology and Chemistry. WALTER C. HEWITT, Michigan Normal.' Conductor of Institutes. School Economy, Observation. JOSEPHINE HENDERSON, Allegheny College.' Composition, Khetoric. ADOLPHUS H. SAGE, Cornell University.' Physics. HENRY M. GODDARD, 'University of Michigan. Geology, Physical Geography. JULIA R. MARVIN, 'Boston Normal School of Gymnastics. Director of Gymnasium and Lecturer on Hygiene. A. ROSS HILL, Cornell University. Psychology and Pedagogy. FREDERIC R. CLOW, Harvard University.' History, Political Economy. ELLEN P. PEAKE, University of New Brunswick. English Literature, Library tradings. BENJ. MACK DRESDEN, Wooster University, Oshkosh NormaLi German. GRACE HEWARD, Potsdam Normal and Conservatory oi Mime. I 'orat Mntir. EMMA G. SAXE, Oshkosh Normal. Associate Mathematics. LILLIAN G. KIMBALL, Associate English Language, trading. FRANCES D. GUION, Cornell University. Associate Elocution and English Language. KATHERINE S. ALVORD, University oI Michigan. Associate History and Mathematics. MRS. MARY CLEMENS GODDARD. ‘ianisf. Instrumental Music. MODEL DEPARTMENT. JENNIE G. MARVIN, Oshkosh Normal. Principal and Critic. Grammar Grades. PERSIS K. MILLER. Cortland Normal. Assistant. Grammar Grades. HENRIETTA J. TROMANHAUSER. Stratford Normal. Ontario.) Teacher and Critic. Intermediate Grades. BERTHA M. KNIGHTS, Mankato Normal. Teacher and Critic. Second primary Grades. JENNIE WILLIAMS, University o Michigan. Teacher and Critic. Eirsf Primary Grades. APELLE HAMILTON, Oshkosh Normal. Secretary and Librarian. Teacher o Stenography. MARGARET J. ALDEN, Oshkosh Normal. Assistant Librarian.

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r «§c6oof tefor . I N a work devoted to n v ”iT the lifeof an institution. the sober facts which may have (frown cold if not dead, the effort to fan the ashes of the past into a living flame by rehearsing achievements which the present (feneration counts as mere common-places, is unenviable, if not unprofitable. Hut the editors seek to come into closer contact with the alumni to whom those events were well known, and “a (treat part of which they were. For this reason we may be pardoned for sketching some salient features attending the inception and development of the Oshkosh Normal during the era of pioneer ideals and narrow beginnings. The early settlers of Wisconsin brought, among other belongings, a firm faith in the necessity of a well supported system of public schools. Hut the seeds of professional training for teachers had only l een sown in Massachusetts and New York when these men bade good-bye to the old homes. The fruit of such sowings, mingled with tares, came some years later. Hut the news of the professional awakening in the old states was borne to ready ears before the primitive cabins gave place to dwellings in which competence delights to comfort itself, and people were not easy with the primitive ways of the schools so long as there was promise of something better. Karlv in the fifties the legislature voted moneys for support of normal training lor teachers of the public schools, which were distributed among various educational institutions that consented to give rudimentary instruction to “teachers classes. In this an eastern precedent was followed, and does not appear to have been lacking in wisdom. In IHnfi the first normal school was established at Platteville. followed by one at Whitewater in 68, and one at Oshkosh in '71. The jsipular Institute hud stamped its image for good and ill over the face of the State and throughout most of the northern states. The first normal schools of the east had essayed to prove their distinctive place in a scheme of education by taking somewhat crude material, judged by academic standards, and imparting a brief didactic course in methods, which though founded upon correct principles, could not be so planted in the minds of the learners, both from brevity in time and lack of extended logical training in those taught. They went forth to honestly and earnestly talk of devices as principles and. worse still, sure that the gospel of the profession was included in the dicta of methods, which might not be lightly questioned. To rip. scholars, whether skilled or unskilled as teachers, this attitude was. very justly, trash and a stumbling which is still bearing fruit of prejudice against even the most philosophic efforts to develop a thorough training for the work of teaching. When the system of normal schools was first inaugurated in Wisconsin, there was altogether another phase of 11