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William and Mary in Virginia, College of
(Encyclopedia)William and Mary in Virginia, College of, mainly at Williamsburg; state supported; coeducational; chartered 1693, opened 1694 by Episcopalians under James Blair. It became a university in 1779. The se...Göttingen
(Encyclopedia)Göttingen götˈĭng-ən [key], city, Lower Saxony, central Germany, on the Leine River. It is ...Barnard College
(Encyclopedia)Barnard College: see Columbia University. ...Columbia College
(Encyclopedia)Columbia College: see Columbia University. ...Radcliffe College
(Encyclopedia)Radcliffe College: see Harvard University. ...Antioch College
(Encyclopedia)Antioch College, at Yellow Springs, Ohio; coeducational; chartered 1852, opened 1853. Horace Mann, Antioch's first president, envisioned a program stressing the development not only of the intellect b...Smith, Goldwin
(Encyclopedia)Smith, Goldwin, 1823–1910, English educator, historian, and journalist. Educated at Oxford, he took a prominent part in executing reforms at the university and became (1858) professor of modern hist...Sewanee
(Encyclopedia)Sewanee: see South, University of the. ...Pembroke College
(Encyclopedia)Pembroke College, Providence, R.I.: see Brown University. ...Lehman College
(Encyclopedia)Lehman College: see New York, City University of. ...Browse by Subject
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