Cullowhee, March 26—Twenty years ago in 1905, the institution which had been founded by Professor R.L. Madison and for 15 years had been known as Cullowhee High School was, by legislative enactment, given the name of Cullowhee Normal and Industrial School. This was in line with the earlier names given most of our institutions: North Carolina College for Women at Greensboro was for a long time known as the Normal and Industrial School, while Wake Forest College was first called Wake Forest Manual Training and Industrial Institute. But, with the change of time, comes the change, not to say evolution, of educational institutions. Cullowhee has, in recent years, been devoting itself more and more to training of teachers, and has never had any strictly “industrial” training. Thus its name has been a misnomer, and it was altogether fitting that the recent legislature should give the institution a title in keeping with the work it is now doing. The Cullowhee Normal and Industrial School is no more, but in its stead we have the Cullowhee State Normal School.
From the front page of the Jackson County Journal, Sylva, N.C., April 3, 1925
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