Before leaving, Cowles declared that dropping the preparatory program at the college would strengthen students ' diplomas ; many other colleges, including Vassar, did not have such programs.

In 2004 Brown became active with the website Foetry. com, a movement started by Alan Cordle that criticized the incestuousness of American MFA literary programs and corruption in literary contests, particularly at the University of Georgia Contemporary Poetry Series, University of Iowa fiction and poetry contests and the University of North Texas Vassar Miller Prize contest.

Monteux has served on the faculties of the New England Conservatory of Music, the Peabody Conservatory, Vassar College and Ohio State University.

* Mapping Gothic France, a project by Columbia University and Vassar College with a database of images, 360 ° panoramas, texts, charts and historical maps

from Vassar College in 1915, and worked for fund-raising organizations during World War I, including the American Committee for Devastated France.

In 1930, she left her teaching position at Vassar College and went back to Germany.

Her music has been presented at festivals all over the world, including events in Germany, Scandinavia, Italy, Britain, Australia, New Zealand and the U. S. Lockwood, a Professor Emeritus at Vassar College, NY since 1982, has retired from teaching though she still writes and performs.

He decided in part to attend Vassar after attending a lecture at the Ireland House at NYU that

* Mentioned in the 1889 novel Three Vassar Girls in Russia and Turkey on pages 75 – 76 as being " a seat of learning in the Middle Ages ... In 1492 there was a printing-press established here, before the art of printing was in general use elsewhere.

Vassar Miller, Pablo Neruda ( Chile ), Sonia Sanchez, Gerald Stern, Studs Terkel, Georg Trakl ( Austria ), Tomas Tranströmer ( Sweden ), Yevgeny Yevtushenko ( Russia ) and Paul Zimmer.

Despite diminishing government financial support over the past quarter century, MIT launched several successful development campaigns to significantly expand the campus: new dormitories and athletics buildings on west campus ; the Tang Center for Management Education ; several buildings in the northeast corner of campus supporting research into biology, brain and cognitive sciences, genomics, biotechnology, and cancer research ; and a number of new " backlot " buildings on Vassar Street including the Stata Center.

In the 1950s he began to receive more commissions from American universities for campus designs and individual buildings ; these include the Noyes dormitory at Vassar, as well as an ice rink, Ingalls Rink, and Ezra Stiles & Morse Colleges at Yale University.

I have no well-matured plan to announce as to the sexes ; but the Principal of the Female Seminary proposes to inaugurate a course for females equal to that pursued at Vassar ; the two sexes having equal advantages, though not reciting together.

Vassar is a few miles southeast on M-15 ; Reese is a few miles to the north by county roads ; I-75 is seven miles west on M-46, and Saginaw is just west of I-75 ; and Bay City is about 15 miles northwest on M-15.

Over 85 % of Vassar graduates plan to pursue advanced study within 5 years of graduation ; seventy percent of graduates actually do.

Foster is the basis for the swashbuckling character " ANTONIO SMITH, FORENSIC LINGUIST " in Shaenon Garrity's award-winning webcomic Narbonic ; Garrity was one of Foster's students at Vassar.

* Joseph ( in French ): Natalie Dessay, soprano ; Brigitte Lafon, mezzo-soprano ; Laurence Dale, Antoine Normand, Philippe Pistole, tenors ; René Massis, baritone ; Frédéric Vassar, Philippe Jorquera, basses ; Abbi Patrix, speaker ; Ensemble choral " Intermezzo " ; Orchestre régional de Picardie " Le Sinfonietta " ; Claude Bardon, conductor.

On June 23, 1868, Vassar delivered his farewell address to the Vassar College Board of Trustees ; he died in the middle of delivering the eleventh page of the speech.

He married as his first wife, Elinor Stewart Gates, the granddaughter of Frederick Taylor Gates ; Gertrude King ( 1916 – 1969 ), Vassar College class of 1938, and Margaret King ( 1917 – 1923 ).

Dana Williams, the band's bass guitarist, is a nephew of the Osborne Brothers, a bluegrass group which is a member of the Grand Ole Opry ; Williams also played in a bluegrass band, and served as a backing musician for Cal Smith, Vassar Clements and Jimmy C. Newman.

While teaching at Vassar, she stopped a rather stridently overacted scene performance and directed the students ' attention to a large tree growing outside the window of the performance space, advising the students on the art of naturalistic acting: " I wish people knew how to be people as well as that tree knows how to be a tree.

Her students at Vassar included the young Meryl Streep.

However, immediately following World War II, Vassar accepted a very small number of male students on the G. I.

In May 2007, falling in with its commitment to diverse and equitable education, Vassar returned to a need-blind admissions policy wherein students are admitted by their academic and personal qualities, without regard to financial status.

Roughly 2, 400 students attend Vassar.

* The Vassar Student Association ( VSA ) includes all students as its members, and is headed by the VSA Council.

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Vassar offers a database of 3, 000 volunteer alumni where students may seek career advice and opportunities.

She started the suffrage movement at Vassar, enrolled two-thirds of the students, and taught them the principles of socialism.

Students from Columbia University and the other colleges and universities included in the consortium ( University of Chicago, Cornell University, Johns Hopkins University, University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, and Vassar College ) can attend classes at the Freie Universität for one or two semesters as external students.

At Vassar, she earned extra money taking students for rides in an airplane she rented from a nearby airport.

At Slabsides he wrote, grew celery, and entertained visitors, including students from local Vassar College.

WVKR-FM ( Independent Radio ) is a college radio station owned by, and primarily staffed by students of, Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York.

Besides these, students in the last four years have been accepted into colleges such as Stanford University, Vassar College, Emory University, Northwestern University, Southern Methodist University, Texas Christian University, Harvard University, New York University, Rice University, Yale University, Wake Forest University, Dartmouth College, Boston College, Brown University, Duke University, Trinity University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Southern California, University of Texas at Austin, Vanderbilt University, and Washington University in St. Louis.

In 1898, a Latin-Scientific Course “ was designed to prepare students for the Women's Medical College, Cornell, Vassar, Wellesley, Smith, Barnard, or such courses in the University of Pennsylvania as were open to women .”

Vassar may refer to:

* Primal scream also refers to a tradition at Stanford University, Northwestern University, University of Southern California, Vassar College ( and other institutions ) during dead week

Vassar also offers a variety of correlate sequences, or minors, for intensive study in many disciplines.

* Vassar Quidditch: Vassar College also boasts a successful quidditch team, the Butterbeer Brewers.

Helicon also orchestrates events and activities garnered towards the enrichment of Vassar ’ s writers community.

Early on, Poughkeepsie was also a major center for whale rendering, and during the 19th century industry flourished through shipping, hatteries, papermills, and several breweries along the Hudson River, including some owned by Matthew Vassar, founder of Vassar College.

He is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Buffalo, having previously also taught at Vassar, Trinity, and Union colleges, and the New School for Social Research.

During this period he also held a visiting professorship at Princeton University and was Delmas Distinguished Professor of History at Vassar College.

Cadets also come from nearby Vassar College, SUNY New Paltz, Mount Saint Mary College, Orange County Community College and Dutchess Community College.

Burns also attended Columbia University, Vassar College, and Yale University before becoming an English teacher.

He has also taught in the religion departments of Swarthmore College, Temple University, Drew University, and Vassar College.

WVKR also streams its broadcast on the internet, accessible through its website, thus serving not only the Vassar College and Hudson Valley communities, but also anyone else in the world who chooses to listen to the webcast.