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The Executive Committee, forerunner of our current University Council, holds its first meeting. The first members of the Committee were Colonel Samuel Young, chairman (Secretary of State and Superintendent of the Common Schools), Regent Gideon Hawley, Francis Dwight, Rev. Dr. Alonzo Potter, and...

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...

Principal Samuel B. Woolworth resigned effective Feb. 1 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 in...

Principal David Cochran submits his resignation to accept the presidency of Polytechnic Institute in Brooklyn, N.Y. At the State Normal School Cochran introduced object-teaching or Pestalozzianism to the school curriculum. The teaching method was used in a new Juvenile Department opened in 1861....

Executive Committee accepts President Alden's resignation effective at the close of the term. Alden’s contributions included the provision of equal pay for equal work regardless of sex and an insistence that English was as worthy of study as Greek & Latin. During his term the school accepted and...

President Edward P. Waterbury dies. 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...

The State College for Teachers closed for just over a month from October 8th to November 12th because of "epidemic of influenza." The State College News noted that the college calendar was "radically changed," due to the closure, but the event was not well documented in the college's records....