Let There Be Light: Football’s First Night Game

Posted by on Sep 18, 2023 in | Comments Off on Let There Be Light: Football’s First Night Game   On a pleasant autumn evening in 1892, Mansfield Normal School and Wyoming Seminary ushered football out of the dark ages by playing the greatest game never seen. The schools clashed on September 28 in what is acknowledged today as football’s first night game, although the primitive illumination scarcely pierced the darkness. Not only did the thousands of fans at Mansfield’s Smythe Park...
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Editor’s Letter

Posted by on Sep 18, 2023 in | Comments Off on Editor’s Letter Seventy-five years ago, unbridled industrial enterprise took its toll on the mill town of Donora in southwestern Pennsylvania when a low-lying smog of chemical toxins from the local steel and zinc plants enveloped the community. The Donora Smog of October 1948 claimed the lives of 20 people during the five-day crisis, later about 50 others, and caused long-term respiratory problems for nearly...
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The State Normal Schools: Teaching Teachers and Others

Posted by on Nov 29, 2013 in | Comments Off on The State Normal Schools: Teaching Teachers and Others In view of their complex, if not complicated, information systems, computers and advanced technology seemingly snatched from the next century, Pennsylvania’s “modern” state universities evolved from what were originally called “normal” schools. During the last century, both educational and social traditions have changed drastically; in fact, nineteenth century...
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