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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Vassar College

Vassar College

Bruno, Maryann
Daniels, Elizabeth A.

Paperback

Series: Campus History

General EducationGeneral PhotographyRegional: Middle Atlantic

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ISBN10: 0738504548
ISBN13: 9780738504544
Publisher: Arcadia Pub (Sc)
Published: Mar 14 2001
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.33 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

Vassar College was founded in 1861, two miles from the banks of the Hudson River in Poughkeepsie by Matthew Vassar, a self-made businessman.


The college grew to confirm its founder's precedent-breaking vision that women would profit from intellectual opportunities in the liberal arts similar to those that Ivy League institutions had long offered the other gender. The college has grown and changed with the times, first countering Victorian prejudices that women were not suited for serious study, always leading the way as opportunities to broaden the spectrum of women's education developed. In the tumultuous decade of the 1960s, Vassar College again broke precedent, turning itself from a single-sex institution into one in which true coeducation exists. After 139 years, Vassar is poised for the changes under way and yet to come in the twenty-first century.

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