"In 1869 the first school was established, being called Mosheim High School, for one year.

"In 1870 the name was changed to Mosheim Institute, which name was retained until 1897, when the name was again changed and the present (1915) school building was erected.  The Holston Synodical College, the new name for the Mosheim school, existed for nine years, when the name of the school was changed to Holston College and lived for two years.  The name then assumed was Cowden College, which name was retained until in 1910, which the citizens of Mosheim bought the building and gave it to Greene County for High School purposes.

"No community that establishes in its midst a school will ever be without one.

"The Mosheim school has had a checquered career and the citizens have paid for it, not once, but at least three times.

"The County High School has come to stay.  The course of study as outlined corresponds to the college course of former years and today the County High School is the poor man's college.

"We have better teaching facilities now than has ever been had at Mosheim.

"Laboratories of all kinds have been added and demonstration work is being done.  The young men and women are now being taught in connection with their mathmatics, foreign languages and the sciences, those essentials of life so long neglected.

"No young man will be graduated who does not know the essentials given in an agriculture course of two years.

"No young woman will be granted a diploma without first having mastered the course in Home Economics.

"During the Spring Term classes will be organized in the two State Elementary Reading Circle Books.  This is a course heretofore neglected but will be taught for the benefit of students who plan to teach the following year and for the elementary teachers who enter the High School.  A special teachers' review course will be given during the Spring Term for teachers."