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Middlebury College

(Encyclopedia)Middlebury College, at Middlebury, Vt.; coeducational; chartered and opened 1800. It is a small liberal arts college noted for its summer language schools, which pioneered in the development of specia...

Newcomb College

(Encyclopedia)Newcomb College: see Tulane Univ. of Louisiana. ...

Pembroke College

(Encyclopedia)Pembroke College, Providence, R.I.: see Brown University. ...

Kenyon College

(Encyclopedia)Kenyon College, at Gambier, Ohio; Episcopal; coeducational; chartered and opened 1824. It was founded by Philander Chase as a theological seminary with some undergraduate work and assumed its present ...

Lehman College

(Encyclopedia)Lehman College: see New York, City University of. ...

King's College

(Encyclopedia)King's College, former name of Columbia Univ. ...

Pitzer College

(Encyclopedia)Pitzer College: see Claremont Colleges. ...

Pomona College

(Encyclopedia)Pomona College: see Claremont Colleges. ...

Boston College

(Encyclopedia)Boston College, main campus at Chestnut Hill, Mass.; coeducational; Jesuit; est. and opened 1863. Actually a university, the school's Chestnut Hill campus comprises colleges of arts and sciences and b...

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