Principal David Page Dies
1848 January 1
Principal David Page dies. 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 recipient of a Normal School diploma to teach in the State of New York.
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Exec. Comm. Minutes, Jan. 1, 1848, Vol. 1, p. 70; French, p. 92