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[3] [4] Faulkner was frustrated that The Citadel would not allow women. [5] Faulkner became the first woman to attempt to enter the Corps of Cadets at The Citadel, which previously had a male-only admissions policy. [3] [4] Her application to the school was accompanied with having her gender blanked out of her high school transcripts. [6]
Citadel is an American spy action television series created by Josh Appelbaum, Bryan Oh, and David Weil for Amazon Prime Video, with the Russo brothers acting as executive producers. It stars Richard Madden and Priyanka Chopra as Citadel agents Mason Kane and Nadia Sinh, respectively.
On February 18, 1865, the school ceased operation as a college when Union troops entered Charleston and occupied the site. Following the war, the Board of Visitors eventually regained possession of The Citadel campus and with the urging of Governor Johnson Hagood, Class of 1847, the South Carolina Legislature passed an act to reopen the college ...
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Cornell College is a private liberal arts college in Mount Vernon, Iowa. Originally the Iowa Conference Seminary , the school was founded in 1853 by George Bryant Bowman. [ 5 ] Four years later, in 1857, the name was changed to Cornell College, in honor of iron tycoon William Wesley Cornell .
The first period of growth in the 1850s saw several brick residences built, and a second period of growth from 1885 to 1900 saw a large number of frame residences built. Early residential development began around the college campus on its east and north side. By the early 1900s development reached the west side of the campus.
Cornell was one of the first Universities to elect trustees by direct election. [78] (Harvard was probably the first to shift to direct election of its Board of Overseers by alumni in 1865.) Cornell's first female trustee was Martha Carey Thomas (class of 1877), who the alumni elected while she was serving as President of Bryn Mawr College. [79]
In the 1950s the college moved to the southern end of Cornell's campus to form The Engineering Quadrangle. For many years, the college offered a five-year undergraduate degree program. However, in the 1960s, the course was shortened to four years for a B.S. degree with an optional fifth year leading to a master of engineering degree.