Swarthmore (/ ˈ s w ɔːr θ m ɔːr / SWORTH-mor, locally / ˈ s w ɑː θ m ɔːr / SWAHTH-mor) is a borough in Delaware County, Pennsylvania.Swarthmore was originally named "Westdale" in honor of noted painter Benjamin West, who was one of the early residents of the town.The name was changed to "Swarthmore" after the establishment of Swarthmore College.The borough …

Union College is a private liberal arts college in Schenectady, New York.Founded in 1795, it was the first institution of higher learning chartered by the New York State Board of Regents, and second in the state of New York, after Columbia College (formerly King's College).. In the 19th century, it became known as the "Mother of Fraternities", as three of the earliest Greek letter …

Rhodes College is a private liberal arts college in Memphis, Tennessee.Historically affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (USA), it is a member of the Associated Colleges of the South and is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.Rhodes enrolls about 2,000 students, and its Collegiate Gothic campus sits on a 123-acre wooded site in Memphis' historic …

Dickinson College is a private liberal arts college in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.Founded in 1773 as Carlisle Grammar School, Dickinson was chartered on September 9, 1783, making it the first college to be founded after the formation of the United States. Dickinson was founded by Benjamin Rush, a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, and named in …

College football refers to American or Canadian football played by teams of student athletes. It was through college football play that American football rules first gained popularity in the United States. ... Franklin & Marshall, Haverford, Penn State and Swarthmore. Lafayette and Lehigh were excluded because it was felt they would dominate ...

Allegheny College is a private liberal arts college in Meadville, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1815, Allegheny is the oldest college in continuous existence under the same name west of the Allegheny Mountains. It is a member of the Great Lakes Colleges Association and the Presidents' Athletic Conference, and is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education

Barnard College of Columbia University is a private women's liberal arts college in the borough of Manhattan in New York City.It was founded in 1889 by a group of women led by young student activist Annie Nathan Meyer, who petitioned Columbia University's trustees to create an affiliated college named after Columbia's recently deceased 10th president, Frederick A.P. Barnard.

Macdonald College, merged with McGill University (1973) University of New Brunswick (1980) University of Prince Edward Island (1979) Université du Québec à Montréal (1972) Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (1979) Royal Military College of Canada (1972) St. Patrick's College, merged with Carleton University (1966) Sir George Williams ...

Cornell College is a private college in Mount Vernon, Iowa.Originally the Iowa Conference Seminary, the school was founded in 1853 by George Bryant Bowman. Four years later, in 1857, the name was changed to Cornell College, in honor of iron tycoon William Wesley Cornell, a distant relative of Ezra Cornell (founder of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York

The College of the Holy Cross is a private, Jesuit liberal arts college in Worcester, Massachusetts, about 40 miles (64 km) west of Boston.Founded in 1843, Holy Cross is the oldest Catholic college in New England and one of the oldest in the United States.. Opened as a school for boys under the auspices of the Society of Jesus, it was the first Jesuit college in New …