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SMITH COLLEGE

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 273 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SMITH See also:COLLEGE , an See also:American institution for the higher See also:education of See also:women, at See also:Northampton, See also:Massachusetts. It was founded by the will of See also:Sophia Smith (1796–1870) of See also:Hatfield, who gave See also:money to Smith See also:Academy in Northampton and to See also:Andover Theological See also:Seminary, and who See also:left about $365,000 " for the See also:establishment and See also:maintenance of an institution for the higher education of See also:young women, with. the See also:design to furnish them means and facilities for education equal to those which are afforded in our colleges for young men "; she See also:chose Northampton as the site of the college and selected the trustees. The college was chartered in 1871 and was opened in 1875. On the college campus in the central See also:part of Northampton are: College See also:Hall, with administrative offices, an See also:assembly hall, and lecture rooms; Seelye Hall, with See also:department offices and recitation rooms; a library, completed in 1910 and containing 30,000 volumes in that See also:year; an auditorium, with a large See also:organ and a seating capacity of 2500; the See also:Lilly Hall of See also:Science; See also:Chemistry Hall; an astronomical See also:observatory; See also:Music See also:Hail; the Hillyer See also:Art See also:Gallery, with an endowment of SSo,000 for the increase of its collections; the Students' See also:Building for the social See also:life of the students; the Lyman Plant See also:House and the Botanic See also:Garden; the Alumnae. Gymnasium; the See also:Allen Recreation See also:Field; sixteen (in 191o) dwelling-houses for the students on the See also:plan of private homes, not dormitories; an infirmary; and Sunnyside, a See also:home for convalescents. Entrance requirements differ little from those of the College Entrance Examination See also:Board. .All undergraduate courses are largely elective and See also:lead to the degree of See also:Bachelor of Arts. See also:Graduate courses lead to the degrees- of See also:Master of Arts and See also:Doctor of See also:Philosophy, the latter degree being rarely conferred and " only in recognition of high scholarly attainment and of ability to carry on See also:original See also:research." In 1909–1910 there were Io4 teachers and 1635 students (of whom 8 were graduate students), and the college had an endowment of about $1,300,000. The See also:annual tuition See also:charge was $too until 1909, when it became $.15o. There are six fellowships, of $500 each,which are granted for graduate research ; and there are many undergraduate scholarships, and loans are made to needy students by the Smith Students' Aid Society (1897). The College contributes to the American Classical See also:Schools at See also:Athens and See also:Rome, to the Zoological Station-at. See also:Naples, and to the Marine Biological Laboratory at See also:Woods Hole, assachusetts.

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Clark Seelye (b..1837), a graduate of See also:Union College and of Andover Theological Seminary. SMITH'S FALLS, a See also:town and outport of See also:Lanark See also:county, See also:Ontario, See also:Canada, on the Rideau See also:river and See also:canal, and the See also:Canadian Pacific railway, 28 M. N,W, of See also:Brockville. Pop. (1901) 5155• It contains saw, See also:shingle, woollen and planing See also:mills, and large agricultural See also:implement See also:works, and has See also:regular steamer connexion with See also:Kingston and See also:Ottawa by the Rideau river and canal.

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