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An 1861 oil portrait of Matthew Vassar by Charles Loring Elliott. Vassar was founded as a women's school under the name Vassar Female College in 1861. [6] Its first president was Milo P. Jewett, who had previously been first president of another women's school, Judson College; [7] he led a staff of ten professors and twenty-one instructors. [8]
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1995 – In 1995, the Liberty League was founded as the Upstate Collegiate Athletic Association (UCAA). Charter members included Clarkson University, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, the University of Rochester, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), St. Lawrence University, Skidmore College and Union College, effective beginning the 1995–96 academic year.
This is an incomplete list of U.S. college nicknames. If two nicknames are given, the first is for men's teams and the second for women's teams, unless otherwise noted.
Sophia Foster Richardson (1855–1916) was an American mathematician affiliated with Vassar College. Her 1897 essay, "Tendencies in athletics for women in colleges and universities", continues to be used as source material for the history of women's college athletics. [1] She was also the author of a 1914 textbook on solid geometry. [2]
Although the AAGPBL was the first recorded professional women's baseball league, women had played baseball since the nineteenth century. The first known women's baseball team played at Vassar College in 1866, [2] while there were several barnstorming Bloomer Girls teams [3] (sometimes including men). [4]
Nevertheless, baseball was played at women's colleges in New York and New England as early as the mid-nineteenth century; [1] teams were formed at Vassar College, Smith College, Wellesley College, and Mount Holyoke College. [2] An African American women's team, the Philadelphia Dolly Vardens, was formed in 1867. [3]
Today, The Miscellany News continues in the tradition started by the editors of 1914, publishing every Thursday morning of Vassar's academic year. The paper is typically 16 pages long each week and consists of six sections—News, Features, Opinions, Humor, Arts and Sports—which each contain innovative and professionally reported pieces concerning issues of interest on and off campus.