sentences:  Lowell State College
  
  Lowell State College, the precursor of today's University of Massachusetts Lowell, was established in 1959.The founding of this new state school was the culmination of decades of institutional growth that began in 1894 with the establishment of Lowell Normal School (a two-year training college for teachers), continued through the transition to the four-year Lowell Teachers College in 1932, and concluded in 1959 with the founding of Lowell State College.