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Meharry Medical College
(Encyclopedia) Meharry Medical CollegeMeharry Medical Collegeməhârˈē [key], at Nashville, Tenn.; coeducational; organized 1876 as the medical department of Central Tennessee College, granted an…Mount Holyoke College
(Encyclopedia) Mount Holyoke CollegeMount Holyoke Collegehōlˈyōk [key], at South Hadley, Mass.; for women; chartered 1836, opened 1837 as Mount Holyoke Female Seminary under Mary Lyon, rechartered as…Morris Brown College
(Encyclopedia) Morris Brown College: see Atlanta Univ. Center.Bryn Mawr College
(Encyclopedia) Bryn Mawr College, at Bryn Mawr, Pa; undergraduate for women, graduate coeducational; opened 1885 by the Society of Friends, with a bequest from Joseph W. Taylor of Burlington, N.J.…Brookwood Labor College
(Encyclopedia) Brookwood Labor College, at Katonah, N.Y.; founded in 1921 in association with the American Federation of Labor as an experimental college. Brookwood was an attempt to create an…Black Mountain College
(Encyclopedia) Black Mountain College, former coeducational liberal arts college at Black Mountain, N.C., near Asheville. Founded (1933) by John Rice, also the school's first rector (1933–40), on the…Agnes Scott College
(Encyclopedia) Agnes Scott College, at Decatur, Ga.; Presbyterian, U.S.; for women; founded 1889 as the Decatur Female Seminary, chartered 1906 as Agnes Scott College.Bethune-Cookman College
(Encyclopedia) Bethune-Cookman College, at Daytona Beach, Fla.; United Methodist; coeducational. Named for its founder and first president, Mary McCleod Bethune, the school was formed as a result of…Trinity College Library
(Encyclopedia) Trinity College Library, in Dublin, the library of the Univ. of Dublin and the largest library in Ireland, est. 1592. Its Old Library building (1712–32) by Thomas Burgh includes the…North College Hill
(Encyclopedia) North College Hill, city (1990 pop. 11,002), Hamilton co., SW Ohio, a suburb of Cincinnati; inc. as a city 1940. It is mostly residential. The Clovernook Center for the Blind there has…