Hart--Irving Harlow [Extension Faculty and Archivist]

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1 Untitled
College Eye 48:29, p.2
Disagrees with statements made in the New York Times concerning American college students.
2 The mystery of Shakespeare's elm
Alumnus 36:4, p.11
Searching for tree planted in 1916 to honor Shakespeare.
3 A struggle for existence, 1876-1890
First 75 Years 0:0, p.38
Normal School established with only minimal legislative support and without other support such as land grants; 1876 biennial appropriation was $14,500 followed by very slow growth to $30,200 for 1888 biennium.
4 Academic ranks
First 75 Years 0:0, p.48
Faculty ranks established early.
5 Attempts to implement the Normal School idea in Iowa
First 75 Years 0:0, p.3
Description of efforts to train teachers in Iowa prior to the founding of the Normal School in 1876.
6 Budgetary procedure, 1876-1925
First 75 Years 0:0, p.41
College continuing appropriation increases over the years.
7 Change of name from Normal School to College
First 75 Years 0:0, p.17
Students and faculty petition President Seerley for a name change; Board acts favorably.
8 Changes of salary policy
First 75 Years 0:0, p.68
Music faculty move from fees to salary; radical change for retirees.
9 Compulsory retirement (1934)
First 75 Years 0:0, p.74
Policy requires faculty to retire at end of year at which they reach 70; meets strenuous protests.
10 Consultative Service
First 75 Years 0:0, p.130
Began in 1916; continued with faculty members spending one or two quarters in field.
11 Continuing appropriations, 1890-1925
First 75 Years 0:0, p.39
1890 biennium includes "annually hereafter" provision; beginning of more generous appropriations.
12 Correspondence study service
First 75 Years 0:0, p.128
History of correspondence study.
13 Curricular revision in 1914
First 75 Years 0:0, p.101
List of majors revised and expanded, minors required, credit system changed from term to hours.
14 Curricular revision in 1949
First 75 Years 0:0, p.103
Results of revision include required general education, reorganization of education courses, and an increase in the graduation requirement from 186 to 196 hours.
15 Curricular trends, 1917-1949
First 75 Years 0:0, p.102
Professional education requirements decrease.
16 Department of Rural Education, 1915
First 75 Years 0:0, p.118
The College established a department devoted to rural education and sets up demonstration schools; the Iowa Club carries out studies relating to rural education.
17 Detached service (1916-1930)
First 75 Years 0:0, p.72
Older faculty members carried on salary with only nominal duties.
18 Early tenure policies
First 75 Years 0:0, p.70

Early practices were nominally annual appointments, but, in practice, were permanent.

19 Establishment of the Iowa State Normal School at Cedar Falls, 1876
First 75 Years 0:0, p.6
History of the political process behind the founding of the Normal School.
20 Executive freedom and efficiency
First 75 Years 0:0, p.44
Survey of relations of the governing boards with Principal Gilchrist and President Seerley.
21 Executive salaries, 1876-1928
First 75 Years 0:0, p.65
Survey of president's salaries over the years.
22 Extension class work
First 75 Years 0:0, p.128
Extension Service offers courses for college credit.
23 Extracurricular activities
First 75 Years 0:0, p.146
Broad survey of the history of literary societies, campus publications, music and athletics, Greek organizations, and religious groups on campus.
24 Faculty participation under Gilchrist
First 75 Years 0:0, p.48
Early participation in governance was broadly spread, but limited in scope.
25 Faculty participation under Latham
First 75 Years 0:0, p.53
President Latham establishes new administrative and governance structures.
26 Faculty participation under Price
First 75 Years 0:0, p.55
Establishment of EPC.
27 Faculty participation under Seerley
First 75 Years 0:0, p.49
President Seerley expands consultation with faculty; departments authorized in 1908 to take January 1, 1909; establishment of office of Registrar; Codification Committee brings together rules and regulations of College in 1920.
28 First Board of Directors
First 75 Years 0:0, p.8
Governor Kirkwood appoints the Board, which then meets to accept the Normal School property.
29 Formal beginning of the Iowa State Normal School
First 75 Years 0:0, p.8
Board elects faculty and decides salary; adopts admission rules and length of terms.
30 Four-Quarter rural program, 1943
First 75 Years 0:0, p.120
President Price puts renewed emphasis on elementary education; four quarter curriculum seen as move toward increasing standards in rural teaching.
31 General and professional education in the curricula, 1886-1914
First 75 Years 0:0, p.100
Development of the curriculum under President Seerley.
32 Gilchrist and Seerley on additional normal schools
First 75 Years 0:0, p.12
Both President Seerley and Principal Gilchrist state that they support additional normal schools once the first school is adequately provided for.
33 Growth of the administrative staff
First 75 Years 0:0, p.68
Administrative staff grows to 253.
34 Housing of the Model School and its successors
First 75 Years 0:0, p.114
Brief description of buildings in which the school was housed.
35 Income from student fees
First 75 Years 0:0, p.41
Survey of revenues from student fees over the years.
36 Influence of the system of unified control
First 75 Years 0:0, p.92
Survey of ways in which the College has limited itself and is limited by outside influences to its role as a teacher training institution.
37 Influential factors before 1913
First 75 Years 0:0, p.117
President Seerley responds to critics of the College by establishing the Rural Education Department and the Extension Service.
38 Introduction
First 75 Years 39:31, p.ix
Professor Hart explains the organization of his history; presents the ideas that he chooses to treat.
39 Introduction of high school graduate courses, 1887
First 75 Years 0:0, p.15
President Seerley establishes a separate curriculum for those students who enter the Normal School as high school graduates.
40 Major in rural school supervision
First 75 Years 0:0, p.12
College establishes new major in 1949.
41 Normal School standards, 1876-1886
First 75 Years 0:0, p.14
Difficulties of relating Normal School degrees to those offered by colleges and universities.
42 Organization of Extension Service, 1913
First 75 Years 0:0, p.125
President Seerley announces organization of extension work at a meeting of teachers and superintendents in October 1913; Study Centers arranged; Professor Colegrove organizes the effort.
43 Origins of Extension Service at the Iowa State Teachers College
First 75 Years 0:0, p.124
President Seerley considers increasing call for assistance and advice from the College.
44 Part-time Service (1934)
First 75 Years 0:0, p.74
Retired faculty can accept appointment to perform some sort of service for one-third salary.
45 Practice teaching in the Iowa State Normal School before 1883
First 75 Years 0:0, p.105
Initial practices in student teaching.
46 Preparation for all fields of public school work
First 75 Years 0:0, p.87
Survey of ways in which the College curriculum changed to meet changing needs; description of degree, diploma, and certificate programs.
47 Preparation for all levels of public school work
First 75 Years 0:0, p.81
Initial curriculum recognizes need for preparation for all levels of teaching; surveys of effects of the College on Iowa; description of ways in which the College met Iowa needs.
48 Procedures in appointment and promotion
First 75 Years 0:0, p.62
Survey of practices involving faculty appointment and promotion.
49 Proposals for the unified control of the state educational institutions
First 75 Years 0:0, p.18
Description of the political atmosphere which led to establishment of a board which controls all state institutions of higher education; influence of Senator Whipple.
50 Proposed annuity system, 1931
First 75 Years 0:0, p.72
Attorney General rules against proposal.
51 Radio education
First 75 Years 0:0, p.133
Brief history of the use of radio in the educational program of the College.
52 Redefinition of the term rural education
First 75 Years 0:0, p.122
College has been occupied with rural education for many years; philosophical differences center around the idea of whether or not rural education is different from other education; decrease in numbers of rural schools may make question moot.
53 Rural education in the doldrums
First 75 Years 0:0, p.120
During the 1930s, rural education is absorbed into the general mainstream of education after the loss of its proponents.
54 Rural education under Gilchrist
First 75 Years 0:0, p.116
Principal Gilchrist reports that 92% of Normal School students taught school after leaving; only 10% of these students were graduates.
55 Sabin's report on rural schools, 1897
First 75 Years 0:0, p.117
Report outlines recommendations for improvement of rural education; the Normal School opens a summer session to help meet needs of rural teachers.
56 Salaries of men and women
First 75 Years 0:0, p.65
Survey of differences in salaries between men and women; differences remain despite protests of President Seerley.
57 Salary schedules
First 75 Years 0:0, p.68
Schedules, reflecting experience, longevity, and scholastic preparation, put into effect in 1948.
58 Salary trends under Latham
First 75 Years 0:0, p.67
Some ground lost during Depression; gradually made up again.
59 Salary trends, 1876-1931
First 75 Years 0:0, p.65
Quick survey of faculty and administrative salaries.
60 Scholastic and professional curricular content, 1876-1886
First 75 Years 0:0, p.98
Survey of the combined professional and general nature of Principal Gilchrist's curriculum.
61 Standards under Gilchrist
First 75 Years 0:0, p.59
Principal Gilchrist preferred successful experience in normal school or college in selecting his faculty.
62 Standards under Latham
First 75 Years 0:0, p.60
President Latham attempts to meet accreditation standards by improving faculty credentials.
63 Standards under Seerley
First 75 Years 0:0, p.59
President Seerley preferred public school experience in selecting his faculty.
64 Student government and social education, 1876-1886
First 75 Years 0:0, p.139
Description of rules and regulations relating to students in the early days of the Normal School.
65 Student government since 1931
First 75 Years 0:0, p.144
History of student self-government units.
66 Student government, 1886-1931
First 75 Years 0:0, p.141
Rules and regulations relating to students under President Seerley; establishment of offices of Dean of Women and Dean of Men; beginnings of student self-government.
67 Study Centers, 1913-1931
First 75 Years 0:0, p.126
Study Centers organized to emphasize methods of teaching subjects; taught by College faculty on Saturdays; well-received.
68 Survey of Extension Service, 1938
First 75 Years 0:0, p.131
Faculty committee studies Extension; aims and objectives outlined; name changed from Extension Division to Bureau of Extension Service.
69 Tenure trends
First 75 Years 0:0, p.70

Survey of years of experience of faculty.

70 The annuity system of 1944
First 75 Years 0:0, p.75
Contract with TIAA adopted; participation of current faculty is voluntary, but mandatory for new faculty.
71 The Board of Directors, 1876-1897; the Board of Trustees, 1897-1909
First 75 Years 0:0, p.27
Board members who had particular influence on the Normal School; duties of the Boards; difficulties involving selection of faculty.
72 The Co-ordination Controversy, 1912-1913
First 75 Years 0:0, p.19
Report recommends limiting College to two-year curriculum; after difficult struggle, the measure is put aside.
73 The critical years, 1876-1890
First 75 Years 0:0, p.9
Early enrollments; financial constraints.
74 The four-year college curriculum, 1904
First 75 Years 0:0, p.16
Normal School curriculum officially includes a four-year bachelor's degree.
75 The governing faculty
First 75 Years 0:0, p.48
Rights of early faculty.
76 The Inside Survey of 1917
First 75 Years 0:0, p.101
Results of survey published in bulletin.
77 The Laboratory School
First 75 Years 0:0, p.113
History of name changes from Training School to Campus School to Campus Laboratory School as well as a description of the changing philosophy of the school.
78 The millage levy policy, 1902-1915
First 75 Years 0:0, p.40
Over $870,000 results from millage; leads to construction of Women's Gym, Physics, Library, Sabin, Wright, President's House, Home Management House, and first unit of Bartlett.
79 The Model School, 1883-1886
First 75 Years 0:0, p.106
Difficulties in establishing and running the Model School.
80 The State Board of Control, 1898-1909
First 75 Years 0:0, p.31
State Board of Control exerts authority over Normal School governing boards.
81 The State Board of Education (since 1909)
First 75 Years 0:0, p.33
New governing board assumes duties; performance over the years.
82 The student-teacher controversy with Cedar Falls, 1918-1919
First 75 Years 0:0, p.111
Objections of some Cedar Falls citizens lead to withdrawal of College students from student teaching assignments.
83 The Training School, 1892-1928
First 75 Years 0:0, p.108
Normal School re-establishes training school; efforts assisted by increased population on College Hill.
84 1876-1951, the first seventy-five years
Alumnus 35:2, p.2
Professor Hart offers brief history of college; photo.
85 Do we rate in beauty plus brains?
College Eye 42:18, p.2
Summarizes results of study correlating beauty rating to GPA.
86 Letter to the editors
College Eye 40:19, p.2
Answering questions left unanswered in Dr. Guest's letter.
87 A tribute to Charles A. Fullerton
Alumnus 30:2, p.11
Recounts long record of service by Professor Fullerton to ISTC; photo.
88 Sara Riggs . . . For sixty years saw the campus grow . . . To greatness
Alumnus 25:1, p.6
Outline of Professor Riggs's record of service; photo.
89 An unsurpassed record of accomplishment
Alumnus 24:4, p.2
Professor Hart outlines President Latham's achievements in overcoming the Depression and making extraordinary developments in administration, curriculum, the campus physical plant, student social life, and scholarship.
90 Dinner planned for anniversary
College Eye 28:2, p.1
For ISTC Sixtieth Anniversary Celebration; to be held October 8, 1936.
91 Books
College Eye 24:33, p.2
A book review of "Industrial Art" by Effie Schuneman.
92 The Extension Division
Old Gold 0:0, p.36
Brief description written by Irving Hart; staff photo.
93 New plan is assailed; faculty and students raise objections; straw vote will be taken in near future
College Eye 14:23, p.1
Faculty and students express their opinions about new business plan for the College Eye.
94 Regarding the city championship
College Eye 12:24, p.5
Clarification of T. C. H. S. basketball stats.
95 Enlisted men receive Xmas boxes; "The Real Thing" funds give enlisted men a real Christmas
College Eye 9:12, p.1
Fifty-five boxes prepared by the Domestic Science Department were given to servicemen.
96 Summer Extension Service; Iowa State Teachers College
College Eye 8:28, p.5
Description of summer extension service instruction.
97 Faculty asks for military training; to begin work Mon., April 30th
College Eye 8:25, p.1
Committee on Military Training for Faculty Members outlines proposal for military education.
98 Professional
College Eye 7:31, p.3
Summary of work in Study Centers over the past year; photo.
99 Recent school legislation in Iowa
College Eye 7:18, p.5
Explains recent consolidated school legislation.