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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]
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.
The Students' Building on the campus of Vassar College in the town of Poughkeepsie, New York, U.S., houses the school's All Campus Dining Center [a] (officially Gordon Commons and nicknamed the ACDC or Deece) as well as additional multifunctional student space on its second floor.
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According to alumna Maria Dickinson McGraw, the creation of a college literary society at Vassar College in the town of Poughkeepsie, New York, was proposed by students during the first week of the school's first year. [1] Later that year, on December 2, 1865, the Philalethean Society was founded, becoming the first student group at Vassar.
The Main Building of Vassar College is the oldest surviving building on its campus in Poughkeepsie, New York, and the center of academic life.It was built by James Renwick Jr. in the Second Empire style in 1861, the second building in the history of what was one of America's first women's colleges.
The Vogelstein Center for Drama and Film is the home to Vassar College's drama and film departments. Before its 2003 renovation, the building was known as Avery Hall, and before that, the Calisthenium and Riding Academy. It was originally designed by J.A. Wood. It has been adapted to many uses since its construction.
In 1902, Vassar College in the town of Poughkeepsie, New York, completed Davison House, the fourth dorm in the college's residential quadrangle (quad). [1] Enrollment was limited to 1,000 students by 1905 and the college saw a need to further expand the number of dorms available so it approved the creation of a new one.