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Moravian University is the sixth-oldest college in the United States and the first to educate women in the original 13 colonies. It traces its roots to the Bethlehem Female Seminary, which was founded in 1742, as the second boarding school for young women in the U.S. behind just the Ursuline Academy in New Orleans.
When the Bethlehem Female Seminary became the Moravian Female Seminary in 1785, it restructured its curriculum into five categories. These subjects were spiritual and moral guidance, intellectual and cultural pursuits, vocational training, social cultivation, and physical exercise.
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Benigna Zinzendorf, also known as Henrietta Benigna Justine Zinzendorf von Watteville (1725–1789), was the founder of the first boarding school for girls in the British American colonies, which became Moravian University and Moravian Academy.
The Moravian Academy in Bethlehem also traces its roots back to the 1742 date in Germantown -- Headman13 15:47, 20 September 2006 (UTC) This is an interesting point about the American Association of Universities being the ones to "rank" the age of institutions, and recognizing Moravian as 6th oldest.
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