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Amherst College
Amherst College at Amherst, Mass.; founded 1821 as a college for men, coeducational since 1975. A liberal arts institution, Amherst maintains a cooperative program with Smith College, Mount Holyoke College, Hampshire College, and the Univ. of Massachusetts.
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City University of New York
City University of New York (CUNY), at New York City; created in 1961 by combining the city's 17 municipal colleges. It includes Bernard M. Baruch College (1919; specializes in business studies), Brooklyn College (1930), City College (1847; the oldest member college), the College of Staten Island (...
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National University of Ireland
National University of Ireland founded 1908 to provide higher education for Irish Roman Catholics. It consists of three colleges: University College, Galway; University College, Cork; and University College, Dublin (not to be confused with the Univ. of Dublin; see Dublin, Univ. of ). The Royal Col...
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Oberlin College
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 of music. One of the first colleges to have coeducational classes, Oberlin College was also a center...
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community college
community college public institution of higher education. Community colleges are characterized by a two-year curriculum that leads to either the associate degree or transfer to a four-year college. The transfer program parallels the first two years of a four-year college. The degree program general...
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Escorial
Escorial or Escurial , monastery and palace, in New Castile, central Spain, near Madrid. One of the finest edifices in Europe, it was built (1563-84) as the monastery of San Lorenzo del Escorial by Philip II to commemorate the Spanish victory over the French at Saint-Quentin (1557). The somber a...
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University of London
University of London at London, England; founded 1836 as an examining and degree-giving body. Teaching functions were not added until 1898. It comprised at first University College (which had been founded in 1826 as the Univ. of London, a nonsectarian school) and King's College (founded 1829 by adh...
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Skidmore College
Skidmore College at Saratoga Springs, N.Y.; chartered and opened 1911 as Skidmore School of Arts (for women) through a gift from Lucy Skidmore Scribner; chartered as a college 1922. In 1972 the school was opened to male students.
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Bryn Mawr College
Bryn Mawr College at Bryn Mawr, Pa; undergraduate for women, graduate coeducational; opened 1885 by the Society of Friends, with a bequest from Joseph W. Taylor of Burlington, N.J. Modeled on a group curriculum plan at Johns Hopkins Univ., Bryn Mawr was one of the first women's colleges in the Unit...
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University of Wales
University of Wales Welsh Prifysgol Cymru, founded 1893 through the organization of three university colleges already existing in Wales into a unified system for the purpose of degree examinations. The university presently comprises the institutions at Aberystwyth (est. 1872 as the University Col...
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