Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Named in honor of both the college founder (Roberts) and the founder of Methodism and the Wesleyan Church (Wesley). Rockefeller University, New York, US John D. Rockefeller: Founded in 1901 by the oil baron and philanthropist as the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research Royal Holloway, University of London, England Thomas Holloway
Their third and final child, Eleanor, was born in October 1889. [33] In 1913, Jessie married Francis Bowes Sayre Sr., who later served as High Commissioner to the Philippines. [34] In 1914, their third child Eleanor married William Gibbs McAdoo, U.S. secretary of the treasury under Woodrow Wilson and later a U.S. senator from California. [35]
Pages in category "Founders of American schools and colleges" The following 195 pages are in this category, out of 195 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Women's Colleges in the United States: History, Issues and Challenges. DIANE Publishing. ISBN 9780788143243. Horowitz, Helen L. Alma mater : design and experience in the women's colleges from their nineteenth-century beginnings to the 1930s (1993) online
In some cases, the nickname may be better known than the formal name. For example, "West Point" for the United States Military Academy or "UCLA" for the University of California, Los Angeles. This list of colloquial names for universities and colleges in the United States provides a lexicon of such names. It includes only alternative names for ...
The College of William & Mary [b] (abbreviated as W&M [8]) is a public research university in Williamsburg, Virginia, United States.Founded in 1693 under a royal charter issued by King William III and Queen Mary II, it is the second-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and the ninth-oldest in the English-speaking world. [9]
Former Name(s) Year of Change Eastern Arizona College: St. Joseph Stake Academy; Gila College; Eastern Arizona Junior College Eastern Florida State College: Brevard Community College, Brevard Junior College 2013 Eastern Illinois University: Eastern Illinois State Normal School 1957 Eastern Kentucky University
St. John's College is a private liberal arts college with campuses in Annapolis, Maryland and Santa Fe, New Mexico.As the successor institution of King William's School, a preparatory school founded in 1696, St. John's is one of the oldest institutions of higher learning in the United States; [6] [7] the current institution received a collegiate charter in 1784. [8]