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Goucher College

(Encyclopedia) Goucher CollegeGoucher Collegegouˈchər [key], at Towson, Md., formerly at Baltimore; inc. 1885, opened 1888 by Methodists as a college for women, coeducational since 1987. It is named…

Grinnell College

(Encyclopedia) Grinnell College, at Grinnell, Iowa; coeducational; incorporated 1847 as Iowa College, opened 1848 by Congregationalists at Davenport. The college moved to Grinnell in 1859, under the…

Hunter College

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

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…

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-…

Mills 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…