Michigan State Normal School
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found: Wikipedia, viewed 09 April 2020History of Eastern Michigan University (Eastern Michigan University was founded in 1849 by the state of Michigan, and opened in 1853 as Michigan State Normal School. In 1899, the school became the Michigan State Normal College when it created the first four-year curriculum for a normal college in the nation.)
found: Yearbook of the Michigan State Normal College for 1900-1901, 1901 :page 15 (The Ypsilanti Normal School was the sixth state normal school in the United States and the first west of the Alleghany Mountains. The law establishing it was enacted in 1849 and its first class was graduated in 1854. The school has for a number of years been doing work of collegiate grade and the Legislature of 1897 in recognition of this fact authorized the State Board of Education to designate the school in the courses leading to life certificates and degrees by the name of the Michigan State Normal College.)
found: Eastern Michigan University, History Project, viewed 09 April 2020Richard G. Boone Hall (In the fall of 1893, Boone resigned from IU to become principal of Ypsilanti State Normal School. In 1898, he became president of the newly formed Michigan State Normal College, where he remained until 1899.)
found: A History of Eastern Michigan University: 1849-1965, 1971 :page 147 (The Act of 1897 which empowered the State Board to designate the Ypsilanti Normal as Michigan State Normal College with regard to life-certificate and degree courses was accepted as changing the name of the school. Boone thenceforth signed himself as "President of Michigan State Normal College")
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1980-03-03: new
2020-04-21: revised
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