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Founded explicitly in reaction to the " prevailing model of East Coast, Ivy League education ," the college's lack of varsity athletics, fraternities, and exclusive social clubs – as well as its coeducational, nonsectarian, and egalitarian status – gave way to an intensely academic and intellectual college whose purpose was to devote itself to " the life of the mind ," that life being understood primarily as the academic life.
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Founded and explicitly
Founded as an explicitly Christian democratic group, it declined at first but reversed its fortunes in the 1980s and 1990s when, as a result of the gradual enlargement of the EPP ( party ), it started to pick up members from other centre-right but non-Christian democratic parties.
Founded and reaction
Founded in 1893 by John Haden Badley in reaction to the limitations of conventional Victorian schools.
Founded and prevailing
The title page to The Coquette announces the tale as “ A Novel Founded on Fact ,” testifying both to the novel ’ s basis on newspaper accounts of Whitman ’ s death, as well as the prevailing suspicion of novelistic fiction in the early Republic as potentially corrupting, especially to the female mind.
Founded and model
Founded by Maharaja Sri-Gupta, the dynasty was the model of a classical civilization. Maurya and Gupta empires are called as the Golden Age of India and were marked by extensive inventions and discoveries in science, technology, art, religion and philosophy that crystallized the elements of what is generally known as Indian culture. The religions of Hinduism and Buddhism, which began in India, were an important influence on South, East and Southeast Asia
Founded in 1861 in response to the increasing industrialization of the United States, the institute adopted the European polytechnic university model and emphasized laboratory instruction from an early date.
Founded upon the teachings of Ann Lee, Shakers today are mostly known for their cultural contributions ( especially their style of music and furniture ), and their model of equality of the sexes, which they institutionalized in their society in the 1780s.
Founded in 1948, the club builds and runs an H0 scale model railway layout that occupies much of the floor.
Founded by Maharaja Sri Gupta, the dynasty was the model of a classical civilization.
Founded at the beginning of the Seljuk empire, these Ash ‘ ari-Shafi ‘ i theological schools are considered to be the model of madrasahs, or Islamic religious schools.
Founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the home of its North American headquarters, Bachmann is today part of the Kader group, who model products are made at a Chinese Government joint-venture plant in Dongguan, China.
Founded as an electrical novelties company, Lionel specialized in various products throughout its existence, but toy trains and model railroads were its main claim to fame.
Founded in 1903 as " the first non-secret senior society ," Elihu held itself up as a model of openness at a time " when prestige of membership in a senior society was reaching its zenith.
Founded in 1972, the museum houses the well known Panorama of the City of New York, a scale model of the five boroughs built for the 1964 World ’ s Fair.
Founded in 1966 in Boston, Massachusetts, METCO is the longest continuously running voluntary school desegregation program in the country and a national model for the few other voluntary desegregation busing programs currently in existence.
Founded in 1879 at Carlisle, Pennsylvania by Captain Richard Henry Pratt, the school was the first off-reservation boarding school, and it became a model for Indian boarding schools in other locations.
Founded in 1936, the AMA is the official national body for model aviation in the United States.
Founded and East
Founded August 24, 1690 by Job Charnock of the East India Company, and commonly called `` The City of Palaces '', it seemed a vast and elegant place to Ann Hasseltine Judson.
Founded in the 1820s as a planned manufacturing center for textiles, Lowell is located along the rapids of the Merrimack River, 25 miles northwest of Boston in what was once the farming community of East Chelmsford, Massachusetts.
Founded in 2001, it reprinted 12 rare works on Eastern Christianity and the Ancient Near East in its first year.
Founded in 1704, Whiteland Township was made up of what is today known as East and West Whiteland townships.
Founded in 1987, the Aresty Institute has expanded its reach from the Wharton campus to a worldwide network of programs offered under its " Global Wharton " umbrella in Asia, India, Europe, and the Middle East.
Founded in Detroit in 1891 as the Detroit College of Law, the law school moved to East Lansing in 1995 becoming an integral part of the university.
Founded as a national organization with strong central Canadian region roots, over the years, individual regional differences — particularly the separate identities of " CUSID East " and " CUSID West "— have become more pronounced.
Founded by Rabbi Sherwin Wine, it is centered in North America but has spread to Europe, the Far East, Latin America, and Israel.
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Founded in 1957, Cal State East Bay has a student body of over 13, 000.
Founded in 1989 by former Congressmen Paul Findley ( R-IL ) and Pete McCloskey ( R-CA ), the Council describes itself as " the only organization of its kind striving against tremendous odds to reverse the U. S. government's one-sided, one-way Middle East policies.
Founded in 1884 on Commercial Street in Whitechapel in London's East End, it remains active today.
Founded as Vorwärts Leipzig in 1951, the team was moved to East Berlin in 1953, where they won six East German championships.
Founded in the early 1990s they debuted at the Nassau County Folk Festival and quickly started performing hundreds of gigs a year throughout the North East.
Founded while the two attended high school in East Meadow, New York, the band was originally known as 28 Orange Street.
Founded in East Germany in the year 1978, Silly was one of the country's most popular music acts, and was well known for its charismatic lead singer Tamara Danz.
Founded in 1960 and incorporated in 1961, the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum originally stored equipment at the Western Union pole yard which was located adjacent to the Southern Railway classification yard on Holtzclaw Avenue in East Chattanooga.
Founded in 1961 by Georges Greaux, It has a fleet of four aircraft serving ten destinations, all within the Leeward Islands group of the Lesser Antilles in the North East Caribbean.
Founded in 1967 after a successful three-week festival at the Gate Theatre in 1966, Project Arts Centre had several homes before it opened for business in a converted factory on East Essex Street in 1975.
Founded in 1910, the company ran a regular transatlantic service between Norway and the United States, and later included a route to East Africa as well.
Founded in 1934, Camp Fern is the oldest summer camp in East Texas and one of the oldest in the nation.
Founded as the Calcutta Cricket Club by British expatriates who had come over with the British East India Company it is known to be in existence by 1792.
Founded and Coast
Founded in 1887, Occidental College, or " Oxy " as it is called by students and alumni, is one of the oldest liberal arts colleges on the West Coast.
Founded on September 17, 1804 by Father Estévan Tapís of the Franciscan order, the mission site was chosen as a midway point between Mission Santa Barbara and Mission La Purísima Concepción, and was designed to relieve overcrowding at those two missions and to serve the Indians living east of the Coast Range.
Founded in 1876, Bangor City have played in the inaugural season on the Welsh Cup and the UEFA Europa League, along with being founder members of the North Wales Coast League, the Welsh National League, the North Wales Combination, the Welsh League ( North ), the Northern Premier League, the Alliance Premier League and the League of Wales.
Founded in 1876, the United States Coast Guard Academy ( USCGA ) is the military academy of the United States Coast Guard.
Founded on gold mining in 1864, it was a centre of the West Coast Gold Rush.
Founded in 1993, The Coast has a generally left wing editorial policy.
Founded in 1907, it is California's oldest surviving amusement park and one of the few seaside parks on the West Coast of the United States.
Founded in the early 1990s West Coast Choppers gained notice with the 2001 shows Motorcycle Mania I and II, on the Discovery Channel.
Founded in 1969, the museum hosts a large permanent collection emphasizing West Coast artists of the 20th-and 21st-century.
Founded in 1915 as a summer camp for boys, the Foundation now runs a four month high school program, Chewonki Semester School ( formerly the Maine Coast Semester ), boys and girls summer camp programs, wilderness trips for teenagers and families, an organic farm, traveling natural history programs where non-releasable wildlife are brought to schools and libraries, as well as week long environmental education programs for school groups around New England.
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