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(1874-1919) (1920-1949)
(1950-1972) (1973-Present)
1874
• January 9: The first bill to create a Normal School for
northwest Missouri is introduced in the General Assembly.
1887
• July 6: Articles of incorporation are filed by Northwest
Missouri Educational and Scientific Association.
1889
• October 1: The Maryville Seminary is opened by Northwest
Missouri Educational and Scientific Association
1890
• The cornerstone of “Old Seminary Building”
is laid.
1905
• March 25: The bill creating the Fifth District Normal
School is signed by Governor Joseph W. Folk. It became a law on
June 16.
• September 12: The first meeting of the Board of Regents.
1906
• January 4: Frank Deerwester is selected as president.
• June 11: The first student, Eliza Munn, is enrolled.
1907
• May 27: Homer Martien Cook is named president; Mr. W.A.
Rickenbroke becomes registrar.
• September 16: A Normal School football practice is organized.
• October 12: The cornerstone of the Administration Building
is laid.
1908
• September 24: Work on the Administration Building is halted
because of lack of funds.
• December 17: Faculty members learn that they will not
receive salaries because state funds are depleted.
1909
• May 13: Faculty salaries will be restored and the construction
on the Administration Building will resume August 19.
• July 19: Dr. H.K. Taylor is elected president after the
resignation of President Cook. But then Mr. Cook withdrew his
resignation. For four months the school had two presidents.
1910
• February 2: First issue of Normal Index (school newspaper)
is published.
• May 4: Dean Colbert sees Halley’s comet at 4 a.m.
• September: Administration Building opens.
1911
• July 10: City water is cut off from the Normal School.
The school uses water from a well west of the building (people
are forbidden from watering horses at that well).
• July 27: Students saw the first talking picture at the
Fern Theater (the story was told as the pictures played).
1912
• January 15: Classes are canceled (school is out of coal).
• December 9: President Taylor recommends opening a drive
from the entrance to the school grounds on Fourth Street to run
north to intersect Seventh Street.
1913
• May 19: Resignation of President Dr. H.K. Taylor accepted.
Ira Richardson, head of education department, is elected president.
• July 25: The Bachelor of Pedagogy degree (for two years
of work) will be dropped and a Life Diploma will be given without
a title.
1914
• March 18: Board of Regents forbids fraternities or sororities
to be formed on campus and that existing groups be dissovled.
• November 23-30: A week of vacation for students while
faculty visit schools in the 19-county area.
1915
• April 9: Indoor track meet in Room 114.
• August 4: Small diplomas replace the big ones, which had
signatures of all the student’s instructors. Some students
refuse to have the ones without signatures.
• October 22: First Walkout Day.
1916
• January: A Drury basketball coach gives the school’s
athletic teams the nickname “Bearcats.”
• May 17: The senior play, a production of George Bernard
Shaw’s Pygmalion, is determined to be “too advanced
for Maryville.”
1917
• May 15: Mike the Dog dies.
• June: The first Tower yearbook is published.
• June 6: The first degree class graduates, and for the
first time, caps and gowns are worn at commencement.
1918
• January 9: The Stroller makes its first appearance in
The Green and White Courier.
• July 17: A Service Flag for students and faculty serving
in World War I is dedicated, with 137 stars on it.
1919
• March 15: A tornado strikes the Administration Building,
doing more than $13,000 in damage.
• December 9: The Board of Regents votes to keep college
in session despite a coal shortage. The school day will begin
at 12:30 p.m. and close at 4:30 with no evening activities.
(1874-1919)
(1920-1949)
(1950-1972) (1973-Present)
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