Dr. Harbold joined the faculty briefly as a professor of history and then left to obtain degrees from F. & M. and Harvard. He returned as head of the Model School in 1905, became superintendent of Lancaster County public schools in 1911, and returned once more as principal in 1912. He resigned in 1919 after a policy dispute with the Board of Trustees concerning the hiring of a faculty member. He became a member of the faculty of F. & M.