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of the College John Aikxamwk Hi i.t. Kkitii 1007-1016 Hakky Aia-in KroWN 1017-1030 John Alexander Hull Keith was born in Illinois in i860. IIo wag graduate! from tin Illinois State Normal University in 1X94 ami received his degree of Master of Arts from Harvard in 1900. For six years he was professor of (tedagogy and assistant in jjaychol-ogy in the Northern Illinois Normal Seliool at DcKalb. The extra-eurrieular work of the school became more varied and active at this |»eriud. Most significant of all. Oshkosh raised its standards by nspiiring four years of high school training for all entrants except those in the Country School Course. .March 22. 1016. the Normal building burned. The new building, ...... now in use. was eom- pleted in 1017 and the library unit in 1918. During the World War a unit of the Student Army Training Corps was maintained, and patriotic activities dominated the school. Harry A. Brown was born in Liberty, Maine, in 1S70. He graduated from Hates College in that state in 1903, and from the University of Colorado in 1907. He did graduate work at Harvard University during the summer of 1914. His teaching experience in rural schools and in town and district sii| crintondcnclcg qualified him to Ik chosen as assistant state su|N rintendeut in New Hampshire for a |»criod of four y« ars. During the summer of 1921 he was invited by Dr. Judd to give two graduate courses in tin School of Education ai the University of Chicago. He reorganized the Oshkosh Normal on the basis of differentiated curricula designed to prepare for speeilie types of teaching servlet . In 192A occurred the most far-reaching change: the Normal School Is'canie a Teachers College with |K)wer to grant degr es.
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Past Presidents ( KOKOK Si m xkr Ai.hkk 1871-1898 Geo ye Sumner AI bee was born in Allegheny County, N. Y.. in 1837. Hi began teaching al tin age of eighteen, entered tin I'niversit.v of .Michigan in lMil and graduated from tin classical course in three years. He served as high school priuci|uil for four years. Such had b« en the training of the strong, patient, earnest, quiet man who came to Oshkosh in August. 1871. to begin Ids career of twenty-seven years-as the builder of the Oshkosh Normal School. President AI lice aliened the school on Tuesday. Scptcmlier PJ. 1871. with forty-three students and six teachers besides himself. His administration was marked by an uninterrupted growth of the school, the attendance reaching 1-d in 1NH7-9S. He guided faculty and students in a spirit of |ia ter mil Ism: and the climax of Ids |»criod of service was the celebration of the twenty-lifth anniversary of the founding of the school. Ill US 11 KM KY 1 l.M-SKY 1899-1907 Rufus Henry Halsey was born at Blooming drove. N. Y.. in ls5ft, and grew up In Brooklyn, receiving ids early education in the public schools and Adelphi Academy. He graduated from Williams College in 1877. then taught one year at Newton viile and live years at Adelphi Academy. In 1833 lie came to Oshkosh as priu ipai of the Idgli school. and in ism he liecninc super-intcmlent as well. In 1890 he left Wis -onsln t« take charge of the school in Blnghainpton. N. Y.. where he was serving at tin time of his recall to Oshkosh. Ills administration was marked by a spirit of co-operation. During Ids eight and a half years as president tin attendance declined slightly. It was Ids theory that itcrsoual acquaintance of the kind to lH-nellt Individual students could not be had with large attendance. His inlluencc aided in the stabilization of the school.
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