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Western College for Women, known at other times as Western Female Seminary and simply Western College, was a women's and later coed liberal arts college in Oxford, Ohio, between 1855 and 1974. Initially a seminary , it was the host of orientation sessions for the Freedom Summer in 1964.
Oxford Female Institute is a registered historic building in Oxford, Ohio, listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. The Oxford Female Institute was affiliated with the Presbyterian Church , and its first president was John Witherspoon Scott .
Hamilton College, Lexington was founded in 1869 as Hocker Female College. a private women's college affiliated with the Disciples of Christ. Its name changed in 1878. In 1889, Kentucky University (later Transylvania University), bought a stake in the school, taking total control in 1903. Closed in 1932. John Lyle's Female Seminary (founded in ...
Fisher Hall was a building at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Originally the Oxford Female College, the building was later used as a sanitarium and was purchased by Miami in 1925. It served as a first-year men's residence hall (though it was briefly a women's hall during World War II), Naval training school, and theatre.
Olivia Meily Brice was an alumna of the Western College for Women, class of 1866. She became the first female trustee of the Western Female Seminary, and served as the President of the Alumnae Association. During her time as a trustee, she donated first $5,000 toward a fund of $50,000 being raised for a new library and laboratory building ...
University of Mount Union (co-ed classes began in 1846; chartered as college in 1858) [34] 1859: Adrian College (four women enrolled as early as 1855 when Michigan Union College; Adrian itself was open to women from the onset under equal curriculum) [35] Cooper Union (free college; enrollment open to all genders, races, religions, economic ...
It was a wild and historic opening day in women's college basketball with a monumental upset and stellar debuts. Seven months after LSU won the national championship, the Tigers became the first ...
1851: Christian College (later Columbia College) was the first women's college west of the Mississippi River to be chartered by a state legislature. [14] 1851: Cherokee Female Seminary is the first institute of higher learning exclusively for women west of the Mississippi River. Along with the Cherokee Male Seminary, this was the first college ...