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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.... Read more |
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Boston College
Boston College main campus at Chestnut Hill, Mass.; coeducational; Jesuit; est. and opened 1863. Actually a university, the school's Chestnut Hill campus comprises colleges of arts and sciences and business administration, the graduate school, and schools of nursing and education. The law school is... Read more |
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Boston University
Boston University at Boston, Mass.; coeducational; founded 1839, chartered 1869, first baccalaureate granted 1871. It is composed of 16 schools and colleges. Among its notable research facilities are a medical center (including the schools of medicine and graduate dentistry and university hospital)... Read more |
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Wellington
Wellington city (1996 pop. 157,647; urban agglomeration 334,051), capital of New Zealand, extreme S North Island, on Port Nicholson, an inlet of Cook Strait. Socially and economically linked with Hutt City, Upper Hutt, and Porirua City, Wellington is a major communications and transportation center... Read more |
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Tufts University
Tufts University main campus at Medford, Mass.; coeducational; chartered 1852 by Universalists as a college for men. It became a university in 1955. Jackson College, formerly a coordinate undergraduate college for women, merged with the College of Liberal Arts in 1980. The Fletcher School of Law... Read more |
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Amherst
Amherst town (1990 pop. 35,228), Hampshire co., central Mass., in a fertile farm area; inc. 1759. Named for Lord Jeffery Amherst , it is a college town. Emily Dickinson was born and lived there all her life. Helen Hunt Jackson was also born there, and Ray Stannard Baker, Eugene Field, Robert... Read more |
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Smith College
Smith College at Northampton, Mass.; undergraduate for women, graduate coeducational; chartered 1871, opened 1875 through a bequest of Sophia Smith. The first president, Laurenus Clark Seelye , was influential in establishing high standards of scholarship. Smith is known for its junior-year-abroad... Read more |
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University of Massachusetts
University of Massachusetts main campus at Amherst; land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered 1863, opened 1867 as Massachusetts Agricultural College. It was called Massachusetts State College from 1931 to 1947. The university's W. E. B. DuBois Library houses the scholar's papers and... Read more |
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Framingham
Framingham , town (1990 pop. 64,994), Middlesex co., E Mass., on the Sudbury River between Worcester and Boston; settled 1650, inc. 1700. Framingham's diverse industries have included textiles, carpets, and automobiles, but the city is now a high-technology and biotechnology center whose products... Read more |
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Weston
Weston town (1990 pop. 10,200), Middlesex co., E Mass., W of Boston; settled c.1642, set off from Watertown and inc. 1713. The town is mainly residential. Regis College, the Weston Observatory of Boston College, and many 18th-century buildings are there.... Read more |
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At Mass Art, the inside story on the harbor islands
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ASU Taps MIT Professor, Nationally Recognized Architect to Lead College of...
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