SUNY College Cortland Digital Commons @ Cortland

College Catalogs College Archives

1921

1921-1922 College Circular

State University of New York College at Cortland

Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.cortland.edu/collegecatalogs - ,2-2

CIRCULAR OF INFORMATION STATE NORMAL AND TRAINING SCHOOL CORTLAND, N. Y.

1921-1922 University of the State of New York Department of Education

Acting Commissioner of Education FRANK B. GILBERT, B.A., LL.D.

Assistant Commissioners GEORGE M. WILEY, M.A., Pd.D., LL.D. For Elementary Education

AUGUSTUS S. DOWNING, M.A., Pd.D., L.H.D., LED. For Higher Education

CHARLES F. WHEELOCK, B.S., LL.D. For Secondary Education

LOCAL BOARD OF MANAGERS

HON. WILLIAM H. CLARK, Chairman THEODORE H. WICKWIRE, Secretary HON. GEORGE M. CHAMPLIN, Treasurer

HON. ISRAEL T. DEYO HON. ORRIS U. KELLOGG DR. R. PAUL HIGGINS JOHN W. SUGGETT FRED M. BRIGGS MRS. MABEL F. WICKWIRE MRS. OLIVE E. DUNN CORTLAND, NEW YORK

CALENDAR

School Year 1921-22

First term begins Wednesday, Sept. 14, 1921. First quarter ends Friday, Nov. 18. Thanksgiving recess Nov. 24-27 Christmas vacation begins Wednesday, Dec. 21. School reopens Wednesday, Jan. 4, 1922. First term ends Tuesday, Feb. 7. Second term begins Wednesday, Feb. 8. Third Quarter ends and Spring vacation begins Thursday, April 13. School reopens Monday, April 24. Fourth quarter ends Friday, June 23. Commencement Tuesday, June 27.

School Year 1922-23

First term begins Wednesday, Sept. 13, 1922. STATE NORMAL SCHOOL 5

FACULTY

HARRY DeW. DeGROAT, A.B., Pd.D., Principal, Williams College, State College for Teachers Science and Art of Education

WILLIAM A. CORNISH, A.B., Yale University Mathematics, and History of Ed ucation LYNN E. BROWN, B.S., New York University Psychology, and Superintendent of Schools of Practice

ULYSSES F. AXTELL, A.B., Colgate University, Columbia University Elocution, Methods of Literature, and Logic

ROSS E. BOWERS, A. B., Pennsylvania College, Syracuse University Natural Science, Supervisor of Nature Study and Physiology

HARRY L. EDICK, Oswego Normal School, Syracuse University Principal Intermediate Department Manual Training MINNIE M. ALGER, Boston Conservatory of Music Methods of Music, Directress of Or chestra, Supervisor and Model Teacher of Music BERTHA L. HILL, The Wheelock Kindergarten Training School, Teachers College Principal Kindergarten Department % ELLA M. VAN HOESEN, Cortland Normal School, Teachers College University of Chicago, Syracuse University Principal Pr imary Department, Supervisor and Model Teacher of Language

M. ELIZABETH MASON, A. B., Geneseo Normal, Syracuse University Ancient History, English History, American History and Civics, Methods of History BESSIE L. PARK, Cortland Normal School, New Haven Normal School of Gymnastics High-School Gymnastics, Methods of Physical Training, Supervisor of Gymnastics, Play and Physiology

CHRISTABEL ROBINSON, Oneonta Normal School Methods of Grammar and Composition, Supervisor and Model Teacher of English

EDITH TOLLERTON, Oswego Normal School, Teachers College Geography Methods, Supervisor and Model Teacher of Geography

IDA O. SLATER, Potsdam Normal School, Teachers College Methods of Language and Reading, Supervisor and Model Teacher of Reading and Spelling 6 CORTLAND, NEW YORK

INA M. HAYES, Plattsburg Normal Arithmetic Methods, Supervisor and Model Teacher of Arithmetic MARY I. RAVEN, B S., New Paltz Normal, Teachers College Domestic Science, Supervisor of Domestic Science and Domestic Art L ILL IA M. OLCOTT, Syracuse University Drawing HELEN KAVANAUGH, Geneseo Normal School, Palmer School of Writing Methods of Penmanship, Supervisor and Model Teacher of Penmanship and Spelling JENNY L. ROBINSON, B. S., Cortland Normal, Syracuse University High-School Music, Supervisor and Model Teacher of Music ESTHER A. BENSLEY, Syracuse University Supervisor of Handwork and A ssistant in Drawing MRS. LOIS W. McBRIDE, Cortland Normal School, Teachers College, Cornell University Assistant in Training School FLORENCE HOAG, Fredonia, Normal School, Teachers College Assistant in Training School LILLA L. MURRAY, Ph. B., Syracuse University Ancient Languages ELIZABETH TUCKER, A.B., Syracuse University Assistant in Science MARIA MARINI University of Padua, University of Ve nezia, University of Berlin French and German ELIZABETH STOCKING, A.B., Wellesley College Assistant in English MARION WILSON, Syracuse University Assistant in Physical Training MARGUERITE ROBINSON, A.B., B.S., Colby University, Simmons College Librarian and Assistant SARAH RANDOLPH, New Paltz Normal School, Teachers College Assistant Kindergartner CLARICE WELLMAN, A.B., B.S., Syracuse University and Simmons College, Albany Business College Confidential Clerk

LOUISE JONES Assistant in Physical Training STATE NORMAL SCHOOL 7

DESIGN OF THE CORTLAND NORMAL SCHOOL

The special function of this normal school is to prepare teachers for the elementary schools of the state.

Requirements for Admission Students desiring to be admitted to the course for elementary teachers must be graduates from a four-year academic course. The applicant must present either a regents academic diploma or evidence of graduation from a four-year high-school course approved by the Commissioner of Education. In addition to the completion of such course, the applicant must satisfy the following conditions: 1. The applicant must be at least 16 years of age. 2. The applicant must receive a formal appointment from the district superintendent of the district or the superintendent of the city in which he resides. No particular subjects are hereafter required for admission to the various courses of a normal school except such subjects as may be required for a regents academic diploma or for an approved high school diploma. Graduates of training classes if they entered the training classes on high school diplomas covering the minimum approved high school course and if they have taught one year since completing their training class couree may complete the professional course in the normal school im^Se^yeaisif they possess the required aptitude for training. The privilege of completing the course in years is not granted to students who completed the training class work in the fourth year of the high school, receiving credit for their training class work on their high school diplomas. Certificates .issued on the completion of two years of professional study'. Formal School students who complete the first two years of the new three year course of study will "be entitled to limited•certificates val id in the elementary schools of the state for a period of three 01 five years. This arrangement makes it possible for normal school students to enter the teaching service on the completion of two years of professional study- The additional year may be completed in part in summer session courses. COURSE OF STUDY FOR NORMAL SCHOOLS

Indicated periods refer to clock hours. Kindergarten-Primary (1, 2, 3) Intermediate (4, 5, 6) Grammar (7, 8, 9) Essentials of E nglish I 3 Essentials of English I 3 Essentials of English I 3 u Health Education 2 Health Education 2 Health Education 2 £ Arithmetic 4 Arithmetic 4 Arithmetic 4 <5 Hi story (European) 3 History (European) 3 History (European) 3 S Introduction to Teaching 2 Introduction to Teaching 2 Introduction to Teaching 2 en D rawing 3 Drawing 3 Drawing 3 m M usic 2 Music 2 Music 2 2 Observation 1 Observation 1 Observation 1 20 20 20

Essentials of English II 3 Essentials of English II 3 Essentials of E nglish II 3 ^ Health Education 2 Health Education 2 Health Education 2 £ Geography (General) 3 Geography (General) 3 Geography (General) 3 5 Penmanship 2 Penmanship 2 Penmanship 2 6 Music 3 Music 3 Music 3 w Psychology 3 Psychology 3 Psychology 3 English Literature (General) 3 English Literature (General) 3 English Literature (General) 3 § Observation 1 Observation 1 Observation 1 $ 20 20 20

Courses for Kindergarten-Primary, Intermediate and Grammar divisions identical first year. Differentiation begins second year.

Primary Reading 3 Drawing 3 Drawing 3 £ Health Education 3 Health Education 3 Health Education 3 to K indergarten Theory 3 Geography 3 Geography 3 g Music 2 Music 2 Music 2 ^ Nature Study 2 Nature Study and Elementary Science 3 Nature Study and Elementary Science 3 ^ Tech. of Teach. (School Econ. and Obser.) 3 Tech. of Teach. (Sch. Econ. and Obser.) 3 Tech. of Teach. (Sch. Econ. and Observ.) 3 .h Handwork 4 History 3 History 3 H 20 20 Tests and Scales 2 Tests and Scales 2 Tests and Scales 2 Sociology 2 Sociology 2 Sociology 2 History of E ducation 3 History of E ducation 3 History of Education 3 Kindergarten Theory 3 Music Appreciation 2 Music Appreciation 2 Music Appreciation 2 Industrial Arts (Handwork) 3 Physical Training and Games 3 Industrial Arts (Handwork) 3 Physical Training and Games 3 Elective and J. H. S. field 3 Participation 3 Participation 3 Participation 3 Health 2 Health 2 Health 2

20 20 20 Library Library Library 2 Specialized Psychology Specialized Psychology Specialized Psychology (adolescent) 3 Elective Reading Methods General Science 3 Songs and Games for Children Participation § Music 3 -M Reading Methods Conference >> Participation Elective Drawing 3 G Conference Literature 3 History 3 Geography 3 Mathematics 3 w Economics 3 Participation 5 Conference 1

20 20 20 ^ Observation and Practice Teaching 10 Observation and Practice Teaching 10 Observation and Practice Teaching 10 .m Con ferences 2 Conferences 2 Conferences 2 g Children's Literature 3 Principles of Education 3 J. H. S. English 3 § Principles of Education 3 Penmanship 2 Principles of Education 3 o Handwork 2 Reading and Juvenile Literature 3 Penmanship 2

x 20 lo 20 20 Students entering Normal Schools in September, 1921 will receive normal life diploma on the completion of the work specified for semesters 1, 2, 3, and 6, (2 Years.) The individual school may develop its own electives which may include foreign language or any subject for which it is specially adapted. Such transposition of subjects as local demands require is permitted so long as the essential time requirements of the course are met. 10 CORTLAND, NEW YORK

Method of Appointment

The applicant should write to the normal school or to the Edu­ cation Department for an appointment blank at least three weeks before the opening of school. The principal of the high school should certify to the successful completion of the required high school course and the district or city superintendent must vouch for the applicant's character. The blank is to be filled out in dupli­ cate and should be returned to the Principal of the normal school. Before receiving an appointment the candidate must possess the evidence of proficiency mentioned above and must sign the following declaration, which is a part of the appointment blank: "In consideration of receiving free tuition at a normal school, I hereby obli­ gate myself to teach in the schools of the State of New York."

NON-RESIDENTS Non-residents of the state are neither solicited nor encouraged to enter this normal school, but in exceptional cases, such persons as especially desire to do so, and who comply with the requirements for admission, may be admitted by special appointment of the Com­ missioner of Education upon paying in advance to the treasurer of the local board a tuition fee of $20 per term of 19 weeks. The application for appointment should be made some weeks in advance in order to allow time for investigation of the candidate's qualifi­ cations. The Demand for Teachers Never has the demand for teachers been greater. In 1920 inexperienced teachers graduating from Cortland received an average salary of $1000 and experienced teachers about $200 more. No member of the class of 1921 had up to April 1st, accepted a position paying less than $1000.

THE TRAINING DEPARTMENT Aim. The aim of the training department is: I. To conduct the work as nearly as possible along the lines of well-graded schools. STATE NORMAL SCHOOL 11

II. To enable the students in training to observe the work of skilled teachers. III. To enable the students in training to acquire skill in teach­ ing by putting into practise the principles of pedagogy that they have learned, and adjust their natural and acquired qualifications to the needs of the child and his development. Organization. The training department consists of a kinder­ garten, the usual grades of the elementary school, divided into pri­ mary and intermediate and high-school departments. There are over five hundred children in the various departments of the training school, giving splendid opportunities for the students in training. The training school is in the immediate charge of a superintend­ ent, assisted by a departmental principal for each of the above, and sixteen supervising and model teachers. Observation. The students in training are required to spend, under close supervision and direction, and in connection with their work in theory, from one to two hundred hours in observation of the children at work and at play, and of the work of e xpert teachers with the children in the various subjects of the elementary course.

Teaching. Each student in training is required to spend in the actual work of teaching, from two to three hundred hours, or as much more as is necessary for them to show sufficient promise to justify their graduation, they having entire charge of a grade for stated periods each day and for at least ten weeks.

The student in training is held rigidly responsible for the dis­ cipline, progress, and management of his grade.

The program is so arranged that the students in training can spend a large part of their time during the last term of their course in the training department. This enables them to learn the me­ chanical part of the work.

No student in training will be graduated until he has proven his ability to teach and manage in a satisfactory manner the work of the schoolroom and has shown that his spirit and sense of responsi­ bility are such as should characterize a teacher. 12 CORTLAND, NEW YORK

GENERAL INFORMATION

Special Privileges of Normal Students Tuition and use of text-books are free, but students are expected to purchase such professional books as are needed in the course. Students will be held responsible for any injury in the case of text­ books furnished by the school. They are advised to bring with them for reference any suitable books they may have. The School Year The school year consists of 39 weeks divided into two terms. The first term opens on the second Wednesday in September and continues 19 weeks, with a vacation at Thanksgiving, and during the mid-winter holidays. The second term begins on the first Wed­ nesday in February and continues 19 weeks, with vacation at Easter. One week at the close of the year is given up to examinations and graduation. Students will be graduated at the end of each term, but commencement exercises will be held only at the close of the year in June. Transfers On concurrence of the principals interested, students may be transferred from one normal to another by the Commissioner of Education, for cause. Literary Societies There are four literary societies for young women connected with the school: the Alpha Kappa Phi—Theta chapter; the Cli- onian—Delta chapter; the Alpha Delta—Delta chapter; and the Theta Phi-Alpha chapter. They hold weekly meetings for the purpose of the individual improvement of their members in par­ liamentary practise, discussion, and literature. They are subject at all times to visitation by any member of the faculty, all meet­ ings being held under faculty supervision. For these weekly meetings there have been opened various club and lodge rooms where members of the faculty act as chaperones. Normal Students' Christian Union This is a purely voluntary non-sectarian organization of the stu­ dents of this school. It meets every Wednesday evening, promptly STATE NORMAL SCHOOL 13

at seven o'clock, and closes at eight o'clock. It is conducted by the students, but is under the general supervision of the authorities of the school. School Parties From eight o'clock until ten o'clock each Saturday evening when the school is in session, the Miller Club House is open to students for pleasure and recreation under faculty supervision.

Location Cortland is situated midway between Syracuse and Binghamton on the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western railroad. The Elmira and Cortland branch of the Lehigh Valley railroad, extending from Elmira to Camden on the Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburg rail­ road, passes through the city. This road forms a junction with the Auburn division of the Lehigh Valley system at Freeville and with the New York Central railroad and West Shore railroad at Canastota. Domestic Science The fully equipped kitchen of the Y. M. C. A. has been placed at the disposal of the Normal school for work in domestic science.

Library and Reading Room Students have access to a library and reading room supplied with well-selected bound volumes.The books have been selected with reference to the needs of each department of the school. Addi­ tions are made each year and great care is used in procuring such books as will be most helpful to the students who are training for the teaching service. The best magazines and periodicals—educa­ tional, literary, and scientific—as well as daily and weekly papers, are generally represented on the reading tables. The library is open nine hours each school day and two hours on Saturday. Stu­ dents have free access to the shelves, and the librarian or her as­ sistants are in constant attendance to aid students in finding the books to which they have been referred by the teachers. The aim of the librarian and teachers is to aid the students to cultivate a taste for good literature and to become familiar with the use of such books as will be most helpful to a teacher. 14 CORTLAND, NEW YORK

The New Building Early Thursday morning, February 27th, 1918, the building of the Cortland Normal School was burned to the ground. The fol­ lowing Monday school was in regular session under a new program. In the meantime not a single application for a transfer to another normal school had been received from the entire student body.

The first four grades of the training school are now held in the building of the Central School and the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth grades on the first floors of two of the churches. Oppor­ tunity is thus offered for observation and practice. Methods classes are held within a radius of half a block so that in passing to and fro many classes actually have shorter distances to walk than in the old building.

Some of the departments have better accommodations than were afforded before the fire. An emergency appropriation of $20,000 has provided ample facilities for continuing the work. A further appropriation of $50,000 for a site and an appropriation of $1,250,- 000 for a new building will make possible what is expected to be one of the finest buildings in the country. It is expected that the new building will be ready for occupancy September, 1922.

The price of board ranges from $7.00 to $8.50 per week, including rooms. Rooms can be rented also for self-boarding; they are fur­ nished or not as students desire; rooms can be rented for $1.50 to $2 50 per week, according to accommodations. Students can rent furnished rooms with the privilege of cooking their food for $2.00 per week. There is no boarding hall connected with the school.

Whenever practicable, students should reach Cortland the day preceding the opening of the term. On arriving, students should go directly to the Normal building if they desire assistance in se­ curing boarding places.

Further information can be obtained by correspondence with the Principal, HARRY DeW. DeGROAT. STATE NORMAL SCHOOL

At Commencement each year all graduates from professional courses take what is known as The Cortland Pledge I now publicly declare my faith in boys and girls. I will always by my practice endeavor to set forth the life that I would have those live whom I desire to influence. I will exalt truth and honor, I will despise meanness and deceit. I will endeavor to pity and encourage the weak, and to inspire the strong. In word and thought and act I will strive to be charitable to others. I will be loyal to my superior officers and to my associates. I will strive to be courageous, temperate, per­ severing, patriotic and true. I will with all my power try to treat the children entrusted to my care as considerately as I would my own brothers and sisters. Lastly, I solemnly promise that all my efforts will be directed toward making each day's work a little better than that of the day before.