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Guilford College, founded in 1837 by members of the Religious Society of Friends ( Quakers ), is an independent college whose stated mission is to: " provide a transformative, practical and excellent liberal arts education that produces critical thinkers in an inclusive, diverse environment, guided by Quaker testimonies of community, equality, integrity, peace and simplicity and emphasizing the creative problem-solving skills, experience, enthusiasm and international perspectives necessary to promote positive change in the world.
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He is buried near the Guilford College campus.
Guilford College was founded in 1837 as the New Garden Boarding School, its name changed in 1888 when the academic program expanded considerably.
They were arrested, but their action led to many other college students in Greensboro-including white students from Guilford College and the Women's College-to sit at the lunch counter in a show of support.
A community college, Guilford Technical Community College, provides local adults with a higher education.
They were founders and trustees of the New Garden Friends Boarding School ( which became Guilford College, the second oldest coeducational college in the United States ).
Numerous colleges and universities are located within easy driving distance of Kernersville, including Salem College, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem State University, Bennett College, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro College, Guilford College,
Guilford Technical Community College and North Carolina A & T State University, and High Point University.
** David Caldwell Log College Site, a site listed on the NRHP in Guilford County, North Carolina
* 88 Zechariah Lord WR ( Guilford College ) Lord played in NFL Europe with the Amsterdam Admirals
Upon discharging from military service, he attended Guilford College, from which he received a history degree.
Coble is a member of the Guilford College Board of Visitors and of the U. S. Coast Guard Academy Board of Visitors.
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Guilford College states that, in support of its mission, its vision is to provide:
According to Guilford College, Principled Problem Solving ( PPS ) is a central and unifying aspect of Guilford College's practical liberal arts educational experience.
The Guilford College Strategic Long-Range Plan 2011 – 2016: Outcomes of a Guilford College Education states that Guilford emphasizes learning through experiences ( study abroad, service-learning, internships, and undergraduate research ) and integrates it as an essential component of the Guilford experience.
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Guilford College has the distinction of being the only Quaker founded college in the southeastern United States.
Chittenden was born in East Guilford, Connecticut and moved to Vermont in 1774, where he founded the town of Williston.
Bailey also founded the Guilford County, North Carolina, affiliate of the Libertarian Party and was a member of the executive committee of the Libertarian Party of North Carolina.
William Dudley, a son of David, was the first of this line in the family of the lords of Dudley to move to Connecticut, and founded the settlement of Guilford, on the shores of Long Island Sound.
Guilford Young College was founded in 1994 and opened to students in 1995, having been established by the Archdiocese of Hobart, the Christian Brothers, the Dominican Sisters, the Salesians of Don Bosco, the Sisters of Charity and the Sisters of Saint Joseph.
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Some events, such as Tarleton's actual pursuit of Francis Marion and his fellow irregular soldiers who escaped by disappearing into the swamps of South Carolina, found their way into the film directly while others were adapted, such as the final battle in the film which combined elements of the Battles of Cowpens and Guilford Court House, with Cornwallis ' order to fire the cannon on friend and foe alike an accurate depiction of the events at the Battle of Guilford Court House.
First settled in 1639 after being purchased from Native American leader Wequash, Guilford is considered by some to have the third largest collection of historic homes in New England, with important buildings from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries.
The northwest side of Guilford is flanked by the Metacomet Ridge, a mountainous trap rock ridgeline that stretches from Long Island Sound to nearly the Vermont border.
Maine Central was purchased by Guilford Transportation Industries in 1981 and became part of Guilford Rail System, which is now named Pan Am Railways.
The town is bordered by Guilford and Vernon, Vermont, to the north, Northfield to the east, Gill to the southeast, Greenfield to the southwest, and Leyden to the west.
The town is bordered by Halifax and Guilford, Vermont, to the north, Leyden to the east, Greenfield to the southeast, Shelburne to the south, Charlemont to the southwest, and Heath to the west.
The town is bordered by Guilford, Vermont, to the north, Bernardston to the east, Greenfield to the south, and Colrain to the west.
One of the first settlements were in what is now known as East Guilford, by the Mercereau brothers ( who were Revolutionary War spies for George Washington ).
* East Guilford – A hamlet in the southeast corner of the town on NY-8 by the junction of County Road 35.
It was along this route in 1781 that General Cornwallis ' men passed by Oak Ridge farms on maneuvers that led them to Guilford Courthouse to fight the last battle of the American Revolutionary War before Yorktown and surrender.
In the second half of the 18th century, western Guilford County was settled largely by Quakers migrating from Pennsylvania and Nantucket Island and by pioneers out of Virginia.
For middle school residents attend Northwest Guilford Middle School followed by Northwest Guilford High School for high school, both of which are located nearby in Greensboro.
Evidence from attempts to look at correlations between intelligence and creativity from the 1950s onwards, by authors such as Barron, Guilford or Wallach and Kogan, regularly suggested that correlations between these concepts were low enough to justify treating them as distinct concepts.
Lord Guildford Dudley ( also spelt Guilford ) ( c. 1535 – 12 February 1554 ) was the husband of Lady Jane Grey who, declared as his heir by King Edward VI, occupied the English throne from 6 / 10 July till 19 July 1553.
Anticipating the young king's imminent death from consumption and anxious to keep England true to the Reformation by keeping the Catholic Mary from the throne, John Dudley, Lord President of the Council and second only to the king in power, hatches a plan to marry his son, Lord Guilford, to Lady Jane Grey, and have the royal physician keep the young king Edward VI alive — albeit in excruciating pain — long enough to get him to name Jane his heir.
She is troubled by the questionable legality of her accession, but after consulting with Guilford, turns the tables on John Dudley and the others who thought to use her as a puppet.
In May, the Royal order for their arrest reached Boston, and was sent by the Governor to William Leete, Governor of the New Haven Colony, residing at Guilford.
Dragoons from Banastre Tarleton's British Legion were briefly engaged by Light Horse Harry Lee's Dragoons about 4 miles ( 6 km ) from the Guilford Court House.
* In the 2000 historical epic The Patriot, the final battle was inspired by the battles of Cowpens and Guilford Courthouse.
The sizes of the armies, as well as their being led by generals Greene and Cornwallis, come from the Guilford Courthouse battle.
Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford, KG, PC ( 13 April 1732 – 5 August 1792 ), more often known by his courtesy title, Lord North, which he used from 1752 until 1790, was Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1770 to 1782.
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