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A view of Smith's campus c. 1900. The college was chartered in 1871 by a bequest of Sophia Smith and opened its doors in 1875 with 14 students and 6 faculty. [13] When Smith inherited a fortune from her father aged 65, she decided that leaving her inheritance to found a women's college was the best way for her to fulfill the moral obligation she expressed in her will: [14]
Frances Dorothy Acomb, 1932, academic and historian; Susan Low Bloch, 1966, professor at Georgetown University Law Center, member of the American Law Institute; Laura Bornholdt, 1940, historian and dean at Sarah Lawrence College, University of Pennsylvania, and Wellesley College [1]
In AY 2015–2016, San Beda University and St. Scholastica's College Manila started their calendar in early July 2015 and ended in mid- to late April 2016. The institution hoped that this move would transition it to a full August-to-May Calendar in the succeeding academic years.
This quarter system was adopted by the oldest universities in the English-speaking world (Oxford, founded circa 1096, [1] and Cambridge, founded circa 1209 [2]). Over time, Cambridge dropped Trinity Term and renamed Hilary Term to Lent Term, and Oxford also dropped the original Trinity Term and renamed Easter Term as Trinity Term, thus establishing the three-term academic "quarter" year widely ...
Smith College is a private, independent women's liberal arts college with coed graduate and certificate programs, located in Northampton, Massachusetts, United States.The Smith College Archives document the life of the College by collecting materials created by students, faculty, administrative and departmental staff during the course of their time here.
Located in Northampton, Massachusetts, Campus School of Smith College is a private elementary lab school that enrolls students from surrounding nearby communities through grades K-6. [1] While their school year lasts from early September until May, the school provides after-school programs as well as a June program the students can enroll in. [ 2 ]
With financial support from the Permanent Charity Fund of Boston and the National Committee for Mental Hygiene, which Southard headed, the training course began in July of 1918 with sixty-three students. [1] The course became a permanent program in 1919. [2] F. Stuart Chapin, Smith College professor of sociology, was appointed the first director.
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