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VASSAR See also:COLLEGE , a non-sectarian institution for the higher See also:education of See also:women, about 2 M. E. of See also:Poughkeepsie, New 'See also:leek, U.S.A. It was incorporated in 1861 as Vassar See also:Female College (which was changed to Vassar College in 1867), and was named in See also:honour of its founder,' See also:Matthew Vassar, who transferred to a See also:board of trustees of his own selection about $400,000 (increased by his will to twice that amount) and the See also:tract of about 200 acres of See also:land upon which the college was built. See also:Building began in See also:June 1861, and the institution was opened on. the loth of See also:September 1865, with See also:John See also:Howard Raymond2 (1814–1878) as See also:president, and Hannah W. Lyman (1816-1871) as See also:lady See also:principal; it had a See also:faculty of eight professors and twenty instructors and teachers, and an enrolment of 353 pupils. The first graduating class was that of 1867, and comprised four-members, to whom were given temporary certificates stating that they were ". entitled to be admitted to the First Degree of Liberal Arts, " as the propriety of awarding the degree of " See also:bachelor" to
'Matthew Vassar (1791–1868) was See also:born at See also:East 1Dereliam, Teddenhamparish, See also:Norfolk, See also:England, on the 29th of See also:April 1791, son of a Baptist who emigrated to the See also:United States in 1796, settled 3 m. E. of Poughkeepsie in 1797 and in 1801 established a brewery there. The brewery was burned in 1811, and Matthew took up the business and in 1812 established an " See also:ale and' See also:oyster See also:saloon " and a brewery, from which he became wealthy. He was a prominent member of the Baptist See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church. He got the See also:idea of See also:founding a college for women from his niece, See also:Lydia See also:Booth, a school teacher. He died on the 23rd of June 186 while See also:reading his farewell See also:report to the Board of Trustees, His See also:nephew, MATTHEW VASSAR, Jun, (1809-1881), was born in Poughkeepsie, became manager of his See also:uncle's brewery, was a member of the Board of Trustees of Vassar College, and its treasurer until his See also:death, gave in all about $5oo,000 to the institution, and with his See also:brother, John See also:Guy Vassar (1811-1888), also one of the trustees and • a benefactor of the college, gave to the college the Vassar See also:Brothers' Laboratory.
S See also:Raymond graduated at See also:Union College in .1832; studied See also:law and then (at See also:- HAMILTON
- HAMILTON (GRAND or ASHUANIPI)
- HAMILTON, ALEXANDER (1757-1804)
- HAMILTON, ANTHONY, or ANTOINE (1646-1720)
- HAMILTON, ELIZABETH (1758–1816)
- HAMILTON, EMMA, LADY (c. 1765-1815)
- HAMILTON, JAMES (1769-1831)
- HAMILTON, JAMES HAMILTON, 1ST DUKE OF (1606-1649)
- HAMILTON, JOHN (c. 1511–1571)
- HAMILTON, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF
- HAMILTON, PATRICK (1504-1528)
- HAMILTON, ROBERT (1743-1829)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM (1730-1803)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM ROWAN (1805-1865)
- HAMILTON, THOMAS (1789-1842)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM (1704-1754)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM GERARD (1729-1796)
Hamilton, N.Y.) theolo ; in 1839–49 taught See also:rhetoric ~.ndEnglish literature at See also:Madison (now Colgate) University, at Hamilton, N.Y.; was See also:professor of belles-lettres at See also:Rochester 'University in 1850-56;-and ' organized the See also:Brooklyn See also:Polytechnic See also:Institute in 18565.
women was questioned at that See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time; in 1868 these certificates, were replaced by diplomas bestowing the degree of A.B. The See also:present equipment includes more than twenty buildings, and the campus has an See also:area of about 400 acres. The college confers the baccalaureate degree in arts (A.B.) upon the completion of the See also:regular course of four years, and a second degree in arts (A.M.) upon Bachelors of Arts of Vassar or any approved college who have completed (by examination and thesis) a course of advanced non-professional study. In 1909-10 there were about ninety professors and instructors and ro4o students. The college had in 1909 See also:total productive funds of about $1,360,000, yielding an income of about $600,000. See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James See also:Monroe See also:- TAYLOR
- TAYLOR, ANN (1782-1866)
- TAYLOR, BAYARD (1825–1878)
- TAYLOR, BROOK (1685–1731)
- TAYLOR, ISAAC (1787-1865)
- TAYLOR, ISAAC (1829-1901)
- TAYLOR, JEREMY (1613-1667)
- TAYLOR, JOHN (158o-1653)
- TAYLOR, JOHN (1704-1766)
- TAYLOR, JOSEPH (c. 1586-c. 1653)
- TAYLOR, MICHAEL ANGELO (1757–1834)
- TAYLOR, NATHANIEL WILLIAM (1786-1858)
- TAYLOR, PHILIP MEADOWS (1808–1876)
- TAYLOR, ROWLAND (d. 1555)
- TAYLOR, SIR HENRY (1800-1886)
- TAYLOR, THOMAS (1758-1835)
- TAYLOR, TOM (1817-1880)
- TAYLOR, WILLIAM (1765-1836)
- TAYLOR, ZACHARY (1784-1850)
Taylor (b. 1848), a See also:graduate of the university of Rochester and of Rochester Theological See also:Seminary, became president of the college in 1886.
See See also:Benson J. See also:Lossing's Vassar College and its Founder (New See also:York, 1867) and Frances A. See also:Wood's Earliest Years at Vassar (Poughkeepsie, N.Y., 1909).
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