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Javier S. Adrianzen, A.B., a student from Chiclayo, Peru, attends State Normal School funded by the Peruvian Government. He earns a Bachelor of Pedagogy in 1910. Adrianzen is the first known Latin American student. He designed the State Normal College Echo cover in 1907.

New York State Normal College commencement held at Trinity Methodist Church.

The first four year liberal arts class graduated earning Bachelors of Arts or Science.

New York State Normal College commencement held at Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church.

The Newman Study Club is founded, the first Catholic group on campus. Open to any woman interested in studying the life and writings of Cardinal Newman. Chi Sigma Theta Sorority, known as Kappa Nu Sorority from its founding on October 5, 1914 until it adopted the name Chi Sigma Theta on Feb. 17,...

The courses were scheduled to close at the end of the school year. However, in June it was decided that if there were at least twenty five students in a grade, then seventh and eighth grade students would be allowed to finish their courses.

School occupied the three building campus consisting of Science, Administration, and the Auditorium. In December 1927 the building were given the names: Husted Hall, Draper Hall, and Hawley Hall (now Dewey).

Borussia, a German study society, is organized.

The Athletic Association formed first by men and soon joined by women to promote all sports, but principally “basket ball,” to take advantage of the “well-equipped gymnasium” in the basement of the Auditorium (later the Hawley Building). The men played an inter-collegiate and high school schedule...

The dedication ceremony is held for the Downtown Campus with speakers Governor Charles Evans Hughs, Commissioner of Education Dr. Andrew Sloan Draper, and Regents Vice-Chancellor St. Clair McKelway. Draper, in his address, said the school would be “a pedagogical college. It is to give a liberal...

Men’s basketball played first inter-collegiate matches versus Albany Medical College and the Union College freshmen. The scores were A.M.C. 53 and S.N.C. 10 and Union 26 and S.N.C. 6. The rest of the games included matches against local high schools and the State Normal College fared much better,...

The second Soldiers Memorial Tablet, costing $411.71, is installed in the Administration Building (subsequently Draper Hall) entrance hall. It replaced the original tablet lost in the 1906 fire.