Columbia Encyclopedia

Search results

500 results found

King's College, University of

(Encyclopedia)King's College, University of: see Dalhousie Univ. ...

Massachusetts State Teachers College

(Encyclopedia)Massachusetts State Teachers College: see Framingham State Univ. ...

Woolley, Mary Emma

(Encyclopedia)Woolley, Mary Emma, 1863–1947, American educator, b. South Norwalk, Conn. After teaching at Wheaton Seminary (1886–91), she attended college and became the first woman to receive (1894) a B.A. fro...

Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania

(Encyclopedia)Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania: see Medical College of Pennsylvania. ...

Durant, Henry Fowle

(Encyclopedia)Durant, Henry Fowle do͝orăntˈ, dyo͝o– [key], 1822–81, American lawyer and educator, b. Hanover, N.H., grad. Harvard, 1841. Christened Henry Welles Smith, he adopted the name Durant (1851) beca...

New Jersey College for Women

(Encyclopedia)New Jersey College for Women: see Rutgers Univ. ...

College of Physicians and Surgeons

(Encyclopedia)College of Physicians and Surgeons: see Columbia Univ. ...

Holy Cross, College of the

(Encyclopedia)Holy Cross, College of the, at Worcester, Mass.; Jesuit; founded and opened 1843, chartered 1865 as a school for men, coeducational since 1972. Noteworthy among its facilities are the O'Callahan Scien...

Case, Karl Edwin

(Encyclopedia)Case, Karl Edwin, American economist, b. New York City, 1946, Ph.D. Harvard, 1976. As a professor at Wellesley College (1976–2010), Case focused on urban economics, real estate markets, and public f...

John Jay College of Criminal Justice

(Encyclopedia)John Jay College of Criminal Justice: see New York, City University of. ...