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McGuffey Hall is an academic building at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. McGuffey Hall is home to Miami University's College of Education, Health and Society. The hall was named after William Holmes McGuffey, father of the McGuffey Readers textbook series. McGuffey Hall housed the School of Education (known as the "Ohio State Normal College ...
In 1923 Laura Ogden Whaling donated $430,000 to Miami University to build a hall of residence in her brother's honor. Her brother, George C. Ogden, graduated from Miami in 1863 and went on to receive his medical degree from the Ohio Medical College. [ 1 ]
Miami University's main campus is in Oxford, Ohio; the city is in the Miami Valley in southwestern Ohio about 30 miles (48 km) northwest of Cincinnati and 35 miles (56 km) southwest of Dayton. Oxford is a college town, with over 70% of the residents attending college or graduate school. [31]
Upham Hall is an academic building on the Miami University campus in Oxford, Ohio, United States. It is located in the center of campus in the academic quad near the university’s seal. [ 2 ] Miami University was founded in 1809 and the first class graduated in 1824.
The statue was given to the university in 1920 by Samuel Spahr Laws, Miami class of 1848. Alumni Hall is also attributed as the inspiration behind Marian Boyd Havighurst's 1934 mystery novel, Murder in the Stacks and sequences from the film Little Man Tate , directed and starring Jodie Foster , were filmed within the rotunda for Alumni Hall.
Bachelor Hall is a three-story brick academic building on the Miami University campus in Oxford, Ohio, United States. It was built in 1978 and named after Miami University and Harvard University graduate Joseph M. Bachelor (1889—1947). It houses the Math and English departments, the Speech and Hearing Clinic and the Chair of Communications ...
Dr. Paul G. Pearson was the 18th President of Miami University and who Pearson Hall was named after. He was born December 5, 1926, and Died on August 12, 2000. He was born in Lake Worth, Florida and received his bachelor's degree, masters, and doctorate from the University of Florida .
Harrison Hall is an academic building on the campus of Miami University housing the Department of Political Science and the Center for Public Management and Regional Affairs. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It replaced an earlier building on the site built in 1818 and demolished in 1958.