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Wheaton College is a
private
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liberal arts college
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in
Norton, Massachusetts
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. Wheaton was founded in 1834 as a
female seminary
A female seminary is a private educational institution for women, popular especially in the United States in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when opportunities in educational institutions for women were scarce. The movement was a sign ...
. The trustees officially changed the name of the Wheaton Female Seminary to Wheaton College in 1912 after receiving a college charter from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It remained one of the oldest
institutions of higher education for women in the United States until men began to be admitted in 1988. It enrolls 1,669 undergraduate students.
History
In 1834, Eliza Wheaton Strong, the daughter of Judge
Laban Wheaton
Laban Wheaton (March 13, 1754 – March 23, 1846) was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts.
Early life and education
Born in Mansfield in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, Wheaton attended Wrentham Academy. He was graduated from Harvard ...
, died at the age of thirty-nine. Eliza Baylies Chapin Wheaton, the judge's daughter-in-law and a founder of the Trinitarian
Congregational Church
Congregational churches (also Congregationalist churches or Congregationalism) are Protestant churches in the Calvinist tradition practising congregationalist church governance, in which each congregation independently and autonomously runs its ...
of Norton, persuaded him to memorialize his daughter by founding a female seminary.
The family called upon noted women's educator
Mary Lyon for assistance in establishing the seminary. Lyon created the first curriculum with the goal that it be equal in quality to those of men's colleges. She also provided the first principal,
Eunice Caldwell. Wheaton Female Seminary opened in Norton, Massachusetts on 22 April 1835, with 50 students and three teachers.
Lyon and Caldwell left Wheaton to open Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in 1837 (now
Mount Holyoke College
Mount Holyoke College is a private liberal arts women's college in South Hadley, Massachusetts. It is the oldest member of the historic Seven Sisters colleges, a group of elite historically women's colleges in the Northeastern United States.
...
). After their departure, Wheaton endured a period of fluctuating enrollment and frequent changes in leadership until 1850, when
Caroline Cutler Metcalf was recruited as the new principal. Metcalf made the hiring of outstanding faculty her top priority, bringing in educators who encouraged students to discuss ideas rather than to memorize facts. The most notable additions to the faculty were
Lucy Larcom
Lucy Larcom (March 5, 1824 – April 17, 1893) was an American teacher, poet, and author. She was one of the first teachers at Wheaton Female Seminary (now Wheaton College) in Norton, Massachusetts, teaching there from 1854 to 1862. During that t ...
, who introduced the study of English Literature and founded the student literary magazine ''The Rushlight;'' and
Mary Jane Cragin, who used innovative techniques to teach geometry and made mathematics the favorite study of many students.
Metcalf retired in 1876.
A. Ellen Stanton, a teacher of French since 1871, served as principal from 1880 to 1897. She led the seminary during a difficult time, when it faced competition from increasing numbers of public high schools and colleges granting bachelor's degrees to women.
In 1897, at the suggestion of
Eliza Baylies Wheaton, the trustees hired the Reverend
Samuel Valentine Cole as the seminary's first male president. Preparing to seek a charter as a four-year college, Cole began a program of revitalization that included expanding and strengthening the curriculum, increasing the number and quality of the faculty, and adding six new buildings.
The Commonwealth of
granted Wheaton a college charter in 1912, and the trustees changed the name of the school to Wheaton College. The Student Government Association was organized to represent the "consensus of opinion of the whole student body", and to encourage individual responsibility, integrity, and self-government. Wheaton received authorization to establish a chapter of
Phi Beta Kappa
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in 1932, twenty years after achieving college status.
Cole died unexpectedly in 1925 after a brief illness. During his career as president, Cole oversaw the expansion of the campus from three to 27 buildings, the growth of enrollment from 50 to 414, and the establishment of an endowment. On the campus, Cole Memorial Chapel is named after him. Its approximate geographical coordinates are: .
The Reverend John Edgar Park, who became president in 1926, continued Cole's building program, and saw the college through the
Great Depression
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, the celebration of its centennial in 1935 and
World War II
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. He retired in 1944, and was succeeded by
Dartmouth College
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Professor of History Alexander Howard Meneely. During his tenure, the trustees voted to expand the size of the college from 525 to 800 to 1000 students, and construction of "new campus" began in 1957.
Meneely died in 1961 after a long illness and was succeeded in 1962 by William C.H. Prentice, a psychology professor and administrator at
Swarthmore College
Swarthmore College ( , ) is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1864, with its first classes held in 1869, Swarthmore is one of the earliest coeduca ...
. In the early 1960s, Wheaton successfully completed its first endowment campaign. The development of new campus continued, and student enrollment grew to 1,200. Wheaton students and faculty joined in nationwide campus protests against United States actions in Indochina in 1970.
In 1975, Wheaton inaugurated its first woman president,
Alice Frey Emerson, dean of students at the
University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest-regarded universitie ...
. During her tenure, Wheaton achieved national recognition as a pioneer in the development of a gender-balanced curriculum. Emerson would go on to receive the Valeria Knapp Award from
The College Club of Boston in 1987 for establishing the Global Awareness Program at Wheaton College. Wheaton celebrated its Sesquicentennial in 1984/85 with a year-long series of symposia, concerts, dance performances, art and history exhibits, and an endowment and capital campaign. In 1987, the trustees voted to admit men to Wheaton. The first coeducational class was enrolled in September 1988.
Dale Rogers Marshall, Academic Dean at
Wellesley College
Wellesley College is a private women's liberal arts college in Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1870 by Henry and Pauline Durant as a female seminary, it is a member of the original Seven Sisters Colleges, an unofficial g ...
, was inaugurated as Wheaton's sixth president in 1992. She led the college in "The Campaign for Wheaton", to build endowed and current funds for faculty development, student scholarships, and academic programs and facilities. Enrollment growth encouraged the construction of the first new residence halls since 1964 (Gebbie, Keefe and Beard residence halls), the improvement of classroom buildings and the renovation and expansion of the college's arts' facilities.
Wheaton's Board of Trustees appointed
Ronald A. Crutcher as the seventh president of the college on March 23, 2004. Crutcher came to Wheaton from
Miami University
Miami University (informally Miami of Ohio or simply Miami) is a public research university in Oxford, Ohio. The university was founded in 1809, making it the second-oldest university in Ohio (behind Ohio University, founded in 1804) and the 10 ...
in
Oxford, Ohio
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, where he served as provost and executive vice president for academic affairs and professor of music. During his tenure, he ran the most successful funding campaigns in Wheaton's history, funding the new $37M Mars Science Center, more than $53M in new scholarship endowments, as well as new athletic facilities, faculty-mentored research, and career services.
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Wheaton's current president,
Dennis M. Hanno, was appointed in 2014. His emphasis has been on accentuating Wheaton's emphasis on diversity and a student-centered approach to education. He's advocated and implemented programs to apply liberal arts teachings to social entrepreurship and making the world a better place. One of his initiatives offers a full scholarship to one refugee student each year, with preference for students from countries subject to immigration restrictions proposed by
Donald Trump
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Trump graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pe ...
in 2016.
Presidents
The following is a list of Wheaton College presidents with the years of their presidential tenures.
* Rev. Dr. Samuel Valentine Cole (1912–1925)
* George Thomas Smart, Acting President (1925–1926)
* Rev. Dr. John Edgar Park (1926–1944)
* A. Howard Meneely (1944–1961)
* Elizabeth Stoffregen May, Acting President (1961–1962)
* William Courtney Hamilton Prentice (1962–1975)
* Alice Frey Emerson (1975–1991)
* Hannah Goldberg, Acting President (1991–1992)
*
Dale Rogers Marshall (1992–2004)
*
Ronald Crutcher (2004–2014)
*
Dennis M. Hanno (2014–2021)
* Michaele Whelan (2022–present)
Academics
Wheaton offers a liberal arts education leading to a Bachelor of Arts degree in more than 100 majors and minors. Students are permitted to work with faculty members to design self-declared majors. Wheaton College is
accredited
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by the
New England Commission of Higher Education
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.
Foundations courses focus on writing, quantitative analysis, foreign language study and non-Western perspectives. In their first semester at Wheaton, all freshmen take a First Year Seminar in which they explore contemporary issues and gain academic skills needed for college-level study. The major concentration and elective courses are also central to the Wheaton Curriculum, which culminates in a senior capstone experience—a thesis, research project, seminar or creative project.
Partnerships with other schools
The course selection is extended further through the college's cross-registration programs with
Brown University
Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...
and nine local colleges involved in SACHEM (Southeastern Association for Cooperation in Higher Education in Massachusetts). Wheaton also offers dual-degree programs, enabling its undergraduates to begin graduate-level study in studio art, communications, engineering, business, theology and optometry.
Among several study abroad opportunities unique to Wheaton is its partnership with
Royal Thimphu College
Royal Thimphu College is a private college in Thimphu, Bhutan under the Royal University of Bhutan. It is Bhutan's first private college.
The campus is located in an area of 25 acres of land in Ngabiphu, a rural area in Thimphu dzongkhag, locat ...
in
Bhutan
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.
Interdisciplinary study
A unique part of the Wheaton curriculum requires students to complete "connections" which approach a variety of topics from the perspectives of different disciplines. During their Wheaton career, students must take either three linked courses or two sets of two-course connections. These courses are intended to encourage students to explore and think beyond their primary academic interests. For instance, the connection entitled "Communication through Art and Mathematics" links Arts 298 (Graphic Design I) with Math 127 (Advertising Math). Although students may complete one of the numerous pre-designed connections, students are encouraged to consider proposing their own.
In 2014, the college won a $500,000 grant from the
Sherman Fairchild Foundation to fund the IMAGINE Network, "an interdisciplinary, campus-wide collaboratory connecting spaces, people, resources and ideas." While much of that grant was used in development of new interdisciplinary facilities, it also supports several interdisciplinary research groups each semester, and supports students and faculty in developing the next generation of liberal arts curriculum.
Hands-on learning
Although Wheaton upholds a long history as a liberal arts college, it has also pioneered practical learning opportunities. Wheaton's ''Semester in the City'' program places students in internships around Boston where they work while taking two related courses for the duration of the semester, to offer a more real-world living-working-learning experience. Wheaton guarantees funding for students pursuing unpaid extracurricular experiences, including internships, research, or any suitable experiential learning opportunity. The Wheaton Institute for the Interdisciplinary Humanities (WIIH) develops and exposes programming exploring liberal arts education's weight in the ever-changing and increasingly complex "real world."
Much of this emphasis was initiated by college president
Dennis M. Hanno, who took some inspiration from
Babson College
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, where he was a Senior Vice President and Provost. One of his primary efforts in this area is WIN, short for Wheaton Innovates, which prepares students to launch social enterprises, applying liberal arts skill sets to create social change. That's included a new partnership with
MassChallenge
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MassChallenge is headquartered in Boston's Seaport District in the Innovation and Design Building, and has additional U.S. locations in Texas ...
to partner students with startups, and led to a $10M commitment by the Diana Davis Spencer Foundation to continue expansion of social entrepreneurship programs starting in 2018.
Arts
In 2003, the Evelyn Danzig Haas '39 Visiting Artists Program was initiated; the program brings writers, musicians, actors, directors, dancers and artists to campus for short-term residencies to share their work through lectures, master classes, concerts and exhibitions. Arts in the City complements the visiting artists program by taking students and faculty members on trips to
Boston
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,
Providence
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* Divine providence, divinely ordained events and outcomes in Christianity
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and elsewhere to explore the arts and cultural offerings of the region.
Wheaton also has an extensive Permanent Collection of artworks which are often implemented in classes and student projects, including in some innovative learning experiences, like a semi-annual student-curated exhibition and student-driven provenance research.
College galleries often exhibit work from the Permanent Collection, but also notable visiting artist. During the 2016–2017 school year, there was a student-curated show, a show of student work, and an installation by
Judy Pfaff
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.
Scholarships and fellowships
Wheaton prioritizes scholarships and fellowships both at the college and for its alumni. In 2016, Wheaton ranked tenth in its number of
Fulbright
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scholars and was recognized as a top producer for 11 consecutive years. Since 2000, Wheaton students have received over 200 external scholarships, including 3
Rhodes Scholarship
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Established in 1902, it is the oldest graduate scholarship in the world. It is considered among the world' ...
s.
Wheaton itself provides substantial scholarships opportunities for current and prospective students. From 2004 to 2014, Wheaton added $53M in scholarships for students, and guarantees funding for internships and experiential learning opportunities. Support for the most academically curious students extends beyond financial funding to include the cohort-based May Fellows program and the Beard Hall living-learning community.
Wheaton also has a chapter of the
Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society.
Campus
Architecture
Austin House, designed by
The Architects Collaborative
The Architects Collaborative (TAC) was an American architectural firm formed by eight architects that operated between 1945 to 1995 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The founding members were Norman C. Fletcher (1917-2007), Jean B. Fletcher (1915-19 ...
, sits at the edge of campus and serves as housing for guest speakers, artists, etc. It won ''
Architectural Record
''Architectural Record'' is a US-based monthly magazine dedicated to architecture and interior design. "The Record," as it is sometimes colloquially referred to, is widely-recognized as an important historical record of the unfolding debates in a ...
''s "House of the Year" in 1962, and remains an important example of mid-century modernism.
In 1938, Wheaton sponsored a competition to build a new arts center, cosponsored by
Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues.
It plays a major role in developing and collecting modern art, and is often identified as one of ...
and
Architectural Forum
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. They fielded proposals from some of the most famous architects of that era, including
Louis Kahn
Louis Isadore Kahn (born Itze-Leib Schmuilowsky; – March 17, 1974) was an Estonian-born American architect based in Philadelphia. After working in various capacities for several firms in Philadelphia, he founded his own atelier in 1935. Whi ...
and
Walter Gropius
Walter Adolph Georg Gropius (18 May 1883 – 5 July 1969) was a German-American architect
An architect is a person who plans, designs and oversees the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to provide services in conne ...
, the latter of which took second prize. First prize went to two relatively unknown architects, Caleb Hornbostel and Richard Bennett, and while never actually built, accelerated the college's embrace of modernist architecture. In 1962, Watson Fine Arts was finally built in the Brutalist International Style.
Student living
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Wheaton students live in a variety of ways. There are 18 traditional residence halls, some, like Meadows and Beard, were built in the 2000s, while others date back to the late 1800s. Most have single and double rooms, with two buildings dedicated to suites of 3-6 people.
There's also a rich history of "Theme Houses," bringing together a number of students with shared interests or purpose. In the 2017–2018 year, there were 17 theme houses on campus. They range from Farm House, which is an active farm, to the
United World College
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Davis House, to the Feminist Perspective House.
Recent facilities developments
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Wheaton's 2014
Sherman Fairchild Foundation grant supported development of a network of interdisciplinary creative spaces around campus, including a
Makerspace
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called Lab 213 (housing 3D printers,
Laser cutters
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, five-axis
CNC
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milling equipment, electronics workspace), the HATCH Lab (digital classroom with virtual reality and eye tracking tools for digital humanities), and a Fiberspace (with digital
jacquard loom
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, sewing machines, and other fibers and textiles tools).
Also included in that network are Arts spaces like the Wheaton Sculpture Studio (wood and metal working, ceramics, molding and casting, etc.), WCCS Student-run recording studio, Machine Shop for precision fabrication, and an experimental theater and dance studio.
In 2011, Wheaton completed its new Mars Science Center, a Gold
LEED certified
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green building certification program used worldwide. Developed by the non-profit U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), it includes a set of rating systems for the design, constructio ...
building housing the majority of the schools science classrooms and research (including greenhouses and observatory). It's also connected by underground passages to the old science center and library.
In 2000, Wheaton also expanded its Arts facilities.
The school has been pursuing infrastructure projects outside academics, too. In 2016, Wheaton renovated its dining halls, including Emerson Dining Hall, the Hood Cafe, and the Davis Spencer Cafe. They also rebuilt Chase Dining Hall. The next year, they erected solar panels on the roof of the old science center and in fields nearby.
Athletics
Wheaton fields 21 varsity
NCAA Division III
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teams, nine for men and 12 for women, in addition to 14 club sports programs and a variety of intramural activities.
Reputation
In 2018, ''
The Wall Street Journal
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'' and ''
Times Higher Education
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Ownership
TPG Capital acquired TSL Education ...
'' ranked Wheaton among the Top 40 U.S. Colleges for liberal arts. For 2015, ''
U.S. News & World Report'' ranked it 69th in Best National Liberal Arts Colleges, and top 50 by high school counselor rankings.
Kiplinger
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Kiplinger Washington Editors, Inc., was a closely held company managed for more than nine decades by three generations ...
notes Wheaton as a "Best Value School", and College Raptor and College Recruiter independently identify Wheaton as a "hidden gem."
The Princeton Review
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also recognizes Wheaton as a standout Northeastern college, one of the 373 best colleges in the United States and among the Top 200 Colleges That Pay You Back. Since 2000, over 250 prestigious scholarships have gone to Wheaton students, including 3 Rhodes Scholarships.
In 2011 ''Newsweek''/''The Daily Beast'' placed Wheaton at number 19 of 25 in their "Braniacs" schools ranking.
Niche ranked Wheaton sixth for most liberal colleges in 2018, and the college does generally have a reputation for liberalism. College leadership has spoken out at numerous occasions against the Trump presidency, in favor of remaining signed on to the Paris Climate Accord and establishing a scholarship for refugees adversely affected by Trump's immigration policies. The school is not to be confused with the much more conservative
Wheaton College (Illinois)
Wheaton College is a Private college, private Evangelical, Evangelical Christian Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Wheaton, Illinois. It was founded by evangelical abolitionists in 1860. Wheaton College was a ...
, and college leadership has at times publicly denounced the other institution's regressive stances and actions to make that clear.
Publications and media
* ''Wheaton Magazine'': College magazine
* ''The Wheaton Wire'': Weekly student newspaper
* ''Nike'': college yearbook
* ''Rushlight'': Student arts & literary magazine since 1855
* ''Babe Lincoln'': semesterly magazine
* ''The Underwire'': Alternative/underground newspaper (2005-2006)
* WCCS: free-format student-run radio station
Films
The following films have been filmed, at least in part, on the Wheaton campus or feature Wheaton students.
* ''
Soul Man'' (1986)
* ''
Metropolitan'' (1990)
* ''
Prozac Nation
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'' (2001)
* ''
Mona Lisa Smile
''Mona Lisa Smile'' is a 2003 American drama film produced by Revolution Studios and Columbia Pictures in association with Red Om Films Productions, directed by Mike Newell, written by Lawrence Konner and Mark Rosenthal, and starring Julia R ...
'' (2003)
* ''
Professor Marston and the Wonder Women
''Professor Marston and the Wonder Women'' is a 2017 American biographical drama film about American psychologist William Moulton Marston, who created the fictional character Wonder Woman. The film, directed and written by Angela Robinson, star ...
'' (2017)
* ''
Don't Look Up
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'' (2021)
Notable alumni
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''
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, actress nominated for an Academy Award
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, news reporter for ''60 Minutes
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'' and CBS News
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, King of Bhutan
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See also
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Female seminary
A female seminary is a private educational institution for women, popular especially in the United States in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when opportunities in educational institutions for women were scarce. The movement was a sign ...
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Women's education in the United States
In the early colonial history of the United States, higher education was designed for men only. Since the 1800s, women's positions and opportunities in the educational sphere have increased. Since the late 1970s and early 1980s, women have surpass ...
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1834 establishments in Massachusetts
Educational institutions established in 1834
Female seminaries in the United States
Former women's universities and colleges in the United States
Liberal arts colleges in Massachusetts
Norton, Massachusetts
Private universities and colleges in Massachusetts
Universities and colleges in Bristol County, Massachusetts