Rejected for early admission to Vassar College at age 16 ( her test scores in Latin were too low ), she was admitted the following year.

She was born in New York City, and attended Vassar College and was graduated in 1909.

Bellaman, a professor at Vassar College, was a disciple of Honoré de Balzac, and his novel was in the tradition of Winesburg, Ohio and was a forerunner of the popular 1950s novel Peyton Place.

* Juniata or Juniata Station was a Port Huron and Northwestern Railway station on the western edge of section 30 in the township, on the boundary with Vassar Township at.

Arthur recognized Streep's talent and potential very early on and after watching her performance in a Vassar play, Arthur said it was " like watching a movie star.

She told her son Jacob, and anyone else who asked: " I would give speeches to 500 people and someone would say, ‘ Do you know who Deep Throat is ?’ And I would say, ‘ It ’ s Mark Felt .’” Classmates of Jacob Bernstein at the Dalton School and Vassar College recall Jacob revealing to numerous people that Felt was Deep Throat.

Vassar was the first of the Seven Sisters colleges, higher education schools then strictly for women, and historically sister institutions to the Ivy League.

It was founded by its namesake, brewer Matthew Vassar, in 1861 in the Hudson Valley, about 70 mi ( 115 km ) north of New York City.

The first person appointed to the Vassar faculty was the astronomer Maria Mitchell, in 1865.

In its early years, Vassar was associated with the social elite of the Protestant establishment.

Vassar College was the first college in the United States to be founded with a full-scale museum as part of its original plan.

Matthew Vassar was known for declaring that " art should stand boldly forth as an educational force.

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.

The race was the historically accurate 4 miles long and was competed in by Marist, Vassar, Army, Penn, Navy and Cornell.

Though Scottie was subsequently accepted to Vassar College, his resentment of Zelda was stronger than ever before.

A resident of Greenwich, Connecticut and a graduate of Vassar College, Harrison was a distant relative of William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison.

During her attendance at Vassar College she was once suspended for organizing a women's rights meeting.

She was a friend of Vassar College President Henry McCracken and of Sarah Lawrence founder William Van Duzer Lawrence.

* The Miscellany News, founded in 1866, is the oldest publication of Vassar College, and one of the oldest college weekly newspapers in the United States.

* The Vassar Night Owls, founded in 1942, is the oldest continuing female a cappella group in the US.

He founded the eponymous Vassar College in 1861.

In a controversial move, the Vassar Athletics Department decided to revoke the varsity status of the men's and women's rowing team on November 5, 2009, choosing instead to investigate the option of a club team.

Made up of the Swinging Monks men's team and the Boxing Nuns women's team, Vassar Ultimate actively competes in college-level tournaments all along the East Coast and beyond.

Radcliffe ( which merged with Harvard College ) and Vassar ( which is now coeducational ) are no longer women's colleges.

Lydia Booth, a niece of Matthew Vassar, encouraged him to establish a women's college in the United States, which would be located in Poughkeepsie.

In January 1861, the New York Legislature passed an act to incorporate Vassar College, one of the first women's colleges in the U. S.

Miss Cocke shared the opinion of president John McBryde of Sweet Briar Women's College in nearby Lynchburg, who in 1907 decried the " independence " sought by Vassar and other members of the Seven Sisters and suggested instead that women's education focus on " grace refinement ".

Universities had begun opening and expanding female admissions as part of women's and co-educational facilities only in the mid-to-latter part of the 19th century with the founding of co-educational Oberlin College in 1833 and private colleges such as Vassar College and Pembroke College.

The college was one of the first women's colleges to compete in national basketball games, along with northern women's colleges such as Smith, Mount Holyoke, and Vassar.

from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie in 1920, her A. M. from Radcliffe College, a women's college associated with Harvard University in 1924, and her Ph. D. in 1925.

Vassar College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college in the town of Poughkeepsie, New York, in the United States.

The Vassar campus comprises over and more than 100 buildings, including four National Historic Landmarks, ranging in style from Collegiate Gothic to International, designed over the course of the college ’ s history by a range of prominent architects, including James Renwick Jr., Eero Saarinen, Marcel Breuer, and Cesar Pelli.

After finishing school, she decided to attend Vassar but when the college wouldn't accept her graduation certificate she attended Willard School for Girls in Berlin.

Here Foster followed in the footsteps of an earlier Shakespeare scholar at Vassar, Henry Noble MacCracken, a former president of the college.

* Vassar College, a liberal arts college in Poughkeepsie, New York, United States

The substantial funding providing to Vassar College by its namesake, Matthew Vassar, helped the college to overshadow Elmira College as the first college for women.

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.

The Milo P. Jewett House at Vassar is named after him in honor of both his promotion of female education and his service to the college.

* Mascot of Vassar College, a co-educational college in Poughkeepsie, New York

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

Originally, the college planned to apply for a low-power license, however plans soon changed to a full-power licence when the tower site of WEOK-FM was donated to Vassar College after the construction of a new tower in Illinois Mountain in Marlboro.

At Vassar College she was elected head of the Drama Club " after silencing a giggling college crowd at a campus dining hall with her interpretation of a scene from Richard II, playing none other than Richard himself ".