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When Vassar opened in 1865, the library was a mere single room in Main with a collection of only three thousand books. In 1893 Frederick Ferris Thompson, a Vassar trustee, gave the college an extension to Main hall that served as a library until the new Thompson building was completed in 1905 by Mary Clark Thompson as a memorial for her husband ...
An 1861 oil portrait of Matthew Vassar by Charles Loring Elliott. Vassar was founded as a women's school under the name Vassar Female College in 1861. [6] Its first president was Milo P. Jewett, who had previously been first president of another women's school, Judson College; [7] he led a staff of ten professors and twenty-one instructors. [8]
Richard J. Lowry (born 1940) [1] is an American psychologist and Professor of Psychology Emeritus at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York.He is the developer of the computational statistics website VassarStats and its political offshoot Scoping the Polls.
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When Vassar's new gymnasium opened in 1894, it had marble-lined, heated swimming pool, provided by Thompson. [32] At the time, this was the largest swimming pool at any college gym in the country. [32] He also donated $200,000 for a new library addition which was designed by Francis R. Allen.
In 1882, Vassar's nephews converted the site of the old brewery at 12 Vassar Street into the Vassar Institute. The first floor contained a natural history museum and the second a library, as well as offices for the Poughkeepsie Literary Society and Poughkeepsie Society of Natural Sciences. Vassar Institute was added to the NRHP in 1972.
Scott died in 1918. The Mary Augusta Scott Papers, ca. 1870 - 1917, are held at Vassar College Archives and Special Collections. [2]In 2016, a portrait of the first seven women to receive Ph.D.s from Yale, which those seven women all did in 1894, was placed in Sterling Memorial Library at Yale. [1]
She joined the Vassar College faculty as an assistant astronomy professor in 1932; she became a full professor in 1944. In 1936, she succeeded Caroline Furness as director of the Vassar Observatory. [5] She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1941 to study Maya astronomy, [6] and was a Fulbright Scholar in Japan and India in 1953-1954.