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

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A Year of Progress Fach year the march of events in the annals of the school presents outstanding occurrences to which the student body and faculty ! x k hack in after years as high spots in its history. 'I he milestones which mark the year of 1917-1928, however, seem to record achievements of more far reaching importance than those of any recent year. 'ITic attainments of this year, in the main, chronicle the fulfillment of long cherished hopes and aims for the higher standards and standing of the school. With the opening of school last September, the new name of State Teachers College went into effect, replacing the name State Normal School. by which the institution had been known since its founding in 1869. The change of name in itself would mean little, but the recognition and assumption of full college rating and standards implied in the change of name signifies much and thrills us as a high goal at last attained. In February. 1918. at the annual meeting of the American Association of Teachers (Alleges in Boston, the school was accredited as a Class A teachers college under the standards of that Association, after an inspection of the college and its work had been made by an inspector delegated for the purpose by the Association. And in March, 1918. this school was accredited as a teachers college under the teacher-training standards of the North Central Association of (Alleges and Secondary Sch x ls at its annual meeting held in Chicago, after an inspection by its representative. Again the recognition by these associations of colleges means nothing in itself, but an opportunity to prove ourselves, and we arc asking every student and every alumnus to help us do this. We are but an infant in this family of colleges, many of whose members have old and honored traditions CXirs arc in the making, and we hope to make these traditions such that graduates generations hence may be proud of them. The year has not been one of professional and academic attainments alone. Our new training school is at last nearing completion and it will afford excellent and complete quarters for the training of elementary and junior high school teachers. ’I his building will be a laboratory for clinical work in education of teachers and will bear the same relation to the teachers college that a well equipped hospital does to a medical school. One of the finest things in the occupancy of the new training school, will be the liberation of the present training school quarters in the main building, for the classroom purposes for which they were originally intended. The college building will be used for college students only, and classroom work w ill be carried on in adequate and suitable quarters. This is a cause for rejoicing on the part of both faculty and students. 'The fact that we arc to have a new central heating plant, and that the campus is to be graded, improved and beautified with new cement walks and driveways will enable us to feel pride in the improved surroundings of our college. All of these improvements and changes simply indicate a larger life and a larger functioning in the way of service on the part of our institution. Greater opportunities will be offered to oncoming generations of students and larger service will be rendered to the public schools of the state through these greater opportunities for better preparation for their work on the part of the members of the student body. All of this places a greater responsibility upon us and we make sincere resolve that this institution shall function in an ever larger way in the development of character and sincerity of purpose, in a better scientific training for students and in contributing to the larger life of the state through our contribution to the improvement of public education. Pax 19