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Oberlin College
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......Collegiate Institute, became Oberlin College in 1850. It includes a college of arts and sciences and a well...coeducational classes, Oberlin College was also a center of abolitionism. The early faculty was made up largely of New England......
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Bennington College
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...Bennington College, at Bennington, Vt.; coeducational (originally...usually relating to their course of study. Many faculty members are practicing artists, and a close relationship between students and faculty is encouraged....
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Pusey, Nathan Marsh
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......scholar, Pusey taught at Lawrence College, Appleton, Wis. (1935–38); Scripps College, Claremont, Calif.; and Wesleyan...Named president of Lawrence College in 1944, he doubled its endowment, raised faculty salaries, and erected new buildings......
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Burgess, John William
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......same year he joined the faculty of Knox College. In 1871 he went to Germany...science, the first such faculty organized for graduate...step in changing Columbia College into a university. He was dean of the Faculty of Political Science from 1890 until......
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Simmons, Ruth
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......American educator and college president, b. Grapeland...and the Caribbean. On the faculty and in the administration at...she was associate dean of the faculty (1986–90). From 1990 to 1991, she was provost of Spelman College. She returned to Princeton......
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Eliot, Charles William
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......Harvard developed from a small college with attached professional...reforms were introduced in the college: the elective system was extended...examinations were required, the faculty was enlarged, and strict student...requirements prevailed both in the college and in the professional schools......
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Sorbonne
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......preponderance over its early mendicant college rivals, and Sorbonne doctors...for the deliberations of the faculty of theology, this faculty came to be called the Sorbonne...members did not belong to this college. In 1626 it was enlarged......
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Dwight, Theodore William
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......N.Y., grad. Hamilton College, 1840. He studied at Yale...became the sole member of the faculty of the newly established Columbia...law. Until 1873, when the faculty was enlarged, he taught all...retirement in 1891 he headed the law faculty. Dwight was particularly interested......
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Barnard, Frederick Augustus Porter
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......deaf and mute, he joined the faculty of the Univ. of Alabama, serving...King as president of Columbia College (now Columbia Univ.). During...from a small undergraduate college of 150 students into one...for men and women. Barnard College, the woman's undergraduate......
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Barton, Derek H. R.
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......Gravesend, England, grad. Imperial College of Science and Technology (B.S. 1940...1942, D.Sc. 1949). He was on the faculty of Imperial College (1945–50, 1957–78), Birkbeck College, London (1950–55), the Univ. of......