President William J. Milne Dies

President Milne had inspired the transformation of the State Normal School in 1890 into a professional school of education, and when that experiment failed, lead the 1906 move to its new mission as a four year liberal arts college for training teachers. The change in the name of the institution from the New York State Normal College to the New York State College for Teachers represented the formal acknowledgement of the transformation of the school to collegiate status. The Milne School and Milne Hall were subsequently named for Milne.

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French, p. 167