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junior college

(Encyclopedia)junior college: see community college. ...

(Encyclopedia)Mills College, at Oakland, Calif.; for women; est. 1852 as the Young Ladies' Seminary at Benicia, Calif., moved 1871, chartered as Mills College 1885. The first women's college in the Far West, it has...

Morehouse College

(Encyclopedia)Morehouse College: see Atlanta Univ. Center. ...

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. ...

Oberlin College

(Encyclopedia)Oberlin College, at Oberlin, Ohio; coeducational; opened 1833 as Oberlin Collegiate Institute, became Oberlin College in 1850. It includes a college of arts and sciences and a well-known conservatory ...

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 ...