Pennsylvania, colonial and federal : a history, 1608-1903 . Normal school. Of the principals now^ serving. O. Lyte has been president of the National Educational asso-ciation; Dr. D. J. Waller, jr., has been state superintendent; yi. Phillips declined the office when it was tendered to G. M. D. Eckels and Dr. J. R. Flickinger have been membersof the Pennsylvania legislature (the latter was also a member ofthe Colorado legislature) ; Drs. Noss, Maltby and Welsh havebeen engaged in Normal school work for several decades. Pro- 64 The Educational System fessor Rothermel has ach
Pennsylvania, colonial and federal : a history, 1608-1903 . Normal school. Of the principals now^ serving. O. Lyte has been president of the National Educational asso-ciation; Dr. D. J. Waller, jr., has been state superintendent; yi. Phillips declined the office when it was tendered to G. M. D. Eckels and Dr. J. R. Flickinger have been membersof the Pennsylvania legislature (the latter was also a member ofthe Colorado legislature) ; Drs. Noss, Maltby and Welsh havebeen engaged in Normal school work for several decades. Pro- 64 The Educational System fessor Rothermel has achieved a reputation for executive abihtyas principal of the Keystone Normal school at Kutztown. Pro-fessors Bigler, Kemp and Wier were more recently elected to theposition of Normal school principal. The buildings at Bloomsburg, Lock Haven and ^vlansfieldwere destroyed by fire. The first buildings at Kutztown werefaulty in construction and have been rebuilt and enlarged. Allthe schools have recently enlarged and improved their facilitiesfor practical Old Camel Back Bridge across the .Susquehanna at Harrisburg Built by Theodore Burr, 1812-1817; damagedby flood, March 2, 1902, and removed sameyear. Engraved for this work from a photo-graph in possession of Historical Society ofDauphin County, Pennsylvania A Separate School Department.—At first the department ofpublic instruction was under the control of the secretary of thecommonwealth, who was ex-ofificio superintendent of commonschools. A separate school department was a cherished idea withthe friends of education throughout the State, and had been ofifi-cially and earnestly recommended by almost every secretary ofthe commonwealth from 1838 to 1854. It had been warmlyurged by the educational meeting at Harrisburg in 1850. bv theState Teachers association and other educational was a growling belief that the magnitude and complexity ofour public school interests justified the creation of such a depart-men
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