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Smith, Goldwin

(Encyclopedia)Smith, Goldwin, 1823–1910, English educator, historian, and journalist. Educated at Oxford, he took a prominent part in executing reforms at the university and became (1858) professor of modern hist...

Antioch College

(Encyclopedia)Antioch College, at Yellow Springs, Ohio; coeducational; chartered 1852, opened 1853. Horace Mann, Antioch's first president, envisioned a program stressing the development not only of the intellect b...

Sewanee

(Encyclopedia)Sewanee: see South, University of the. ...

Pembroke College

(Encyclopedia)Pembroke College, Providence, R.I.: see Brown University. ...

Franklin, John Hope

(Encyclopedia)Franklin, John Hope, 1915–2009, the dean of 20th-century African-American historians, b. Rentiesville, Okla., grad. Fisk Univ. (A.B., 1935), Harvard (M.A., 1936; Ph.D., 1941). Franklin served on the...

Baruch College

(Encyclopedia)Baruch College: see New York, City University of. ...

City College

(Encyclopedia)City College: see New York, City University of. ...

Lehman College

(Encyclopedia)Lehman College: see New York, City University of. ...

Hunter College

(Encyclopedia)Hunter College: see New York, City University of. ...

York College

(Encyclopedia)York College: see New York, City University of. ...