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Henry C. Hibbs. Memorial Hall (formerly known as Confederate Memorial Hall) is a historic building on the Peabody College campus of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. It was built in 1935 as a dormitory hall for female descendants of Confederate States Army veterans. Its former name resulted in multiple lawsuits and student unrest.
University of Leeds accommodation. Coordinates: 53.8002°N 1.5625°W. Devonshire Hall, Cumberland Road. This is a list of halls of residence both on and off campus at the University of Leeds in Leeds, England. The list is split to show halls providing catered and self–catered accommodation and includes a section on halls that are no longer ...
Vanderbilt University (informally Vandy or VU) is a private research university in Nashville, Tennessee.Founded in 1873, it was named in honor of shipping and railroad magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt, who provided the school its initial $1 million endowment in the hopes that his gift and the greater work of the university would help to heal the sectional wounds inflicted by the American Civil War ...
The history of college campuses in the United States begins in 1636 with the founding of Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, then known as New Towne.Early colonial colleges, which included not only Harvard, but also College of William & Mary, Yale University and The College of New Jersey (now Princeton University), were modeled after equivalent English and Scottish institutions, but ...
Darnton Lupton's grandson, Alan Cecil Lupton (1873–1949) was born in Leeds and attended Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge; and graduated from Cambridge University. [190] In 1905, he married Mary Emma, daughter of Sir Charles Raymond Burrell, 6th Baronet and sister of his fellow Old Etonian , Sir Merrik Burrell, 7th Baronet . [ 191 ]
Ellen Lupton (born 1963) is a graphic designer, curator, writer, critic, and educator. Known for her love of typography, [1] Lupton is the Betty Cooke and William O. Steinmetz Design Chair at Maryland Institute College of Art. [2] Previously she was the Senior Curator of Contemporary Design at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New ...
An American college dormitory room in 2002. A dormitory (originated from the Latin word dormitorium, [1] often abbreviated to dorm), also known as a hall of residence or a residence hall (often abbreviated to halls), is a building primarily providing sleeping and residential quarters for large numbers of people such as boarding school, high school, college or university students.
The new campus was completed in 1952 with six buildings: a renovated Reid Castle for use as an administration building, the library, the academic building, Brownson Hall; the music building Pius X Hall; Benziger Dining Hall, and Founders Dormitory. The increasing student population led to the addition of the Spellman Hall dormitory in 1957.