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Page Hall on the Downtown Campus was named for Principal Page in 1929. Among Page’s achievements were designing a curriculum that remained largely unchanged until 1890, securing the support of the legislature for the new experiment in teacher training, and securing legislation that allowed every...

Principal Samuel B. Woolworth resigned effective January 4 to become Secretary to the Board of Regents and a member of the Executive Committee of the Normal School. As a Secretary of the Regents, Woolworth would introduce the Regents Exams. Woolworth would serve as acting principal of the school...

He was 58 years old. The first graduate of the school to lead it, Waterbury oversaw the construction of the new Willett Street building, guided the Alumni Association in its first fund-raising campaign for the Alumni Memorial Window, and after gathering information on graduate’s careers, wrote...

Arey's term as principal was marked by a dispute with the faculty led by Professor Rodney Kimball, the nature of which remains unclear. Multiple teachers submitted "papers" documenting charges against Principle Arey in early 1866 and multiple teachers resigned. The end result was that both the...

Acting President John M. Sayles recognized as president by Chairman of Board of Visitors Judge Newton B. Vanderzee. The Regents still take no action on the appointment apparently because they made it a practice not to hire presidents from the faculty of a teachers college.