Literary Societies of the State Normal School hold semi-annual exercises. The program included prayers, essays, music, oration, and an address from a clergyman. This is the first record of a literary society at the school. At the time two societies for males existed, the Excelsior Society and the...
1861 September
Primary Department created an Experimental School as a separate department. The department prepared students age five to seven using the Pestalozzian or object method of teaching. All female Normal School students spent one week in the department and one hour per week discussing the training...
1862 September
Normal School Company formed to fight in the Civil War. Led by Lieutenant, subsequently Captain, Albert N. Husted, SNS ‘45, and Captain Rodney Kimball, the Company fought at Fredricksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Wilderness, Spottsville, and Cold Harbor. Husted Hall was named for Husted in...
1863 January 23
Literary Societies hold semi-annual exercises. The renamed Independent Order of Normals (I.O.N.) [formerly Independent Association] and Ex Society, both male student organizations, again hold exercises with music, oration, prayers, and essays.
1864 September 19
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....
1864 December - 1867 January 8
Oliver Arey, A.M., is appointed principal by Executive Committee to start at earliest possible date.
1865 January 12[?]
The Executive Committee Minutes of January 12, 1865, suggest that Arey accepted the position in December of the previous year but did not begin working as the Principal until around this date.
