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The Hope Waddell Training Institution (HWTI) started as an industrial school at the Duke Town School premises (then known as Orange Grove) in May 1894. The school was then moved to its present site in March 1895, with Rev. William Risk Thompson as its first principal. This school was dedicated to the memory of Rev. Hope Masterton Waddell, the leader of the Presbyterian mission team that first came to old Calabar in 1846. The motto of the school is “IN SPE GLORIAE DEI” (in hope of the glory of God). Rev. James Luke, a principal of the school, introduced the game of football for the first time at the school in 1902.