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The Mount Vernon Seminary and College was a private women's college in Washington, D.C. It was purchased by George Washington University in 1999, and became the Mount Vernon Campus of The George Washington University.[1]

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  1. 71 relations: Ada Comstock, Alexander Graham Bell, Anne Hearst, Audrey Jones Beck, Barbara Allen (politician), Barbara Ingalls Shook, Beneficiary, Betty Ford Center, Charlsie Cantey, Child labour, Clarence Thomas, Columbia University, Cornell University, Courteney Cox, Dodge, Dorothy Fratt, Dropping out, Eleanor Lansing Dulles, Elizabeth J. Somers, Encyclopædia Iranica, Equestrianism, Evalyn Walsh McLean, Film producer, Fox News, Frances Dodge, Frances Nash Watson, George Washington University, Gerald Ford, Ginni Thomas, Harvard University, Hearst Communications, Heather Nauert, Horse racing, International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, Kansas Senate, Kayhan London, Khadija al-Salami, List of women's colleges, Marjorie Merriweather Post, Mount Holyoke College, National Economic Council (United States), National Register of Historic Places, Nazenin Ansari, Northwestern University, OP-20-G, Parents Music Resource Center, Pippa Malmgren, Post Consumer Brands, Prohibition, Radcliffe College, ... Expand index (21 more) »

  2. George Washington University
  3. Universities and colleges established in 1875

Ada Comstock

Ada Louise Comstock (December 11, 1876 – December 12, 1973) was an American women's education pioneer.

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Alexander Graham Bell

Alexander Graham Bell (born Alexander Bell; March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922) was a Scottish-born Canadian-American inventor, scientist and engineer who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone.

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Anne Hearst

Anne Randolph Hearst (born July 29, 1955) is an American socialite, philanthropist, and publishing heiress of the wealthy Hearst family.

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Audrey Jones Beck

Audrey Jones Beck (March 27, 1924 – August 22, 2003) was an American art collector and philanthropist who donated her personal art collection to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

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Barbara Allen (politician)

Barbara Allen (born February 8, 1961) is a Republican, Kansas state senator from the 8th District.

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Barbara Ingalls Shook

Barbara Ingalls Shook (1938–2008) was an American heiress and philanthropist.

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Beneficiary

A beneficiary in the broadest sense is a natural person or other legal entity who receives money or other benefits from a benefactor.

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Betty Ford Center

The Betty Ford Center (BFC) is a non-profit, residential treatment center for persons with substance dependence in Rancho Mirage, California.

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Charlsie Cantey

Charlsie Cantey (born c. 1946 in Raleigh, North Carolina), one of broadcasting's veteran thoroughbred horse racing analysts, is an American sportscaster who worked for ESPN (1985–2002), ABC Sports (1986–2000), WOR-TV (1975–1977), CBS Sports (1977–1986), USA Network (2002–2005) and NBC Sports (2000–2005).

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Child labour

Child labour is the exploitation of children through any form of work that interferes with their ability to attend regular school, or is mentally, physically, socially and morally harmful.

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Clarence Thomas

Clarence Thomas (born June 23, 1948) is an American lawyer and jurist who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

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Columbia University

Columbia University, officially Columbia University in the City of New York, is a private Ivy League research university in New York City.

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Cornell University

Cornell University is a private Ivy League land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York.

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Courteney Cox

Courteney Bass Cox (born June 15, 1964) is an American actress and filmmaker.

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Dodge

Dodge is an American brand of automobiles and a division of Stellantis North America, based in Auburn Hills, Michigan.

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Dorothy Fratt

Dorothy Fratt - Cooper (August 10, 1923 - July 7, 2017) was an American artist.

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Dropping out

Dropping out refers to leaving high school, college, university or another group for practical reasons, necessities, inability, apathy, or disillusionment with the system from which the individual in question leaves.

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Eleanor Lansing Dulles

Eleanor Lansing Dulles (June 1, 1895 – October 30, 1996) was an American writer, professor, and United States government employee.

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Elizabeth J. Somers

Elizabeth J. Somers (November 5, 1837 – June 8, 1924) founded the Mount Vernon Seminary in Washington, D.C. in 1875.

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Encyclopædia Iranica

Encyclopædia Iranica is a project whose goal is to create a comprehensive and authoritative English-language encyclopedia about the history, culture, and civilization of Iranian peoples from prehistory to modern times.

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Equestrianism

Equestrianism (from Latin equester, equestr-, equus, 'horseman', 'horse'), commonly known as horse riding (Commonwealth English) or horseback riding (American English), includes the disciplines of riding, driving, and vaulting.

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Evalyn Walsh McLean

Evalyn McLean (Walsh; August 1, 1886 – April 26, 1947) was an American mining heiress and socialite, famous for reputedly being an owner of the Hope Diamond (which was bought in 1911 for US$180,000 from Pierre Cartier), as well as another famous diamond, the Star of the East.

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Film producer

A film producer is a person who oversees film production.

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Fox News

The Fox News Channel (FNC), commonly known as Fox News, is an American multinational conservative news and political commentary television channel and website based in New York City.

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Frances Dodge

Frances Dodge (November 27, 1914 – January 24, 1971) was an American horsewoman and racehorse owner.

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Frances Nash Watson

Frances Nash Watson (July 8, 1890 – December 20, 1971) was an American concert pianist and composer.

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George Washington University

The George Washington University (GW or GWU) is a private federally-chartered research university in Washington, D.C. Originally named Columbian College, it was chartered in 1821 by the United States Congress and is the first university founded under Washington D.C.'s jurisdiction.

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Gerald Ford

Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. (born Leslie Lynch King Jr.; July 14, 1913December 26, 2006) was an American politician who served as the 38th president of the United States from 1974 to 1977.

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Ginni Thomas

Virginia "Ginni" Thomas (Lamp; born February 23, 1957) is an American conservative activist.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Hearst Communications

Hearst Communications, Inc. (often referred to simply as Hearst and formerly known as Hearst Corporation) is an American multinational mass media and business information conglomerate based in Hearst Tower in Midtown Manhattan in New York City.

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Heather Nauert

Heather Ann Nauert (born January 27, 1970) is an American broadcast journalist and former government official who served as Spokesperson for the United States Department of State in the Donald Trump administration from 2017 to 2019.

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Horse racing

Horse racing is an equestrian performance activity, typically involving two or more horses ridden by jockeys (or sometimes driven without riders) over a set distance for competition.

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International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement

The organized International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is a humanitarian movement with approximately 16million volunteers, members, and staff worldwide.

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Kansas Senate

The Kansas Senate is the upper house of the Kansas Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. State of Kansas.

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Kayhan London

Kayhan London is a Persian-language Iranian online media outlet based in London.

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Khadija al-Salami

Khadija al-Salami (خديجة السلامي; born November 11, 1966, in Sana'a, Yemen), is the first Yemeni female film producer and director.

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List of women's colleges

A women's college is an institution of higher education where enrollment is all-female.

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Marjorie Merriweather Post

Marjorie Merriweather Post (March 15, 1887 – September 12, 1973) was an American businesswoman, socialite, and philanthropist.

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Mount Holyoke College

Mount Holyoke College is a private liberal arts women's college in South Hadley, Massachusetts, United States.

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National Economic Council (United States)

The National Economic Council (NEC) is the principal forum used by the president of the United States for the consideration of domestic and international economic policy matters with senior policymaking and Cabinet officials, and forms part of the Office of Policy Development which is within the Executive Office of the President of the United States.

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National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic value".

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Nazenin Ansari

Nazenin Ansari (نازنین انصاری) is an Iranian journalist, managing editor of Kayhan London (italic), a weekly Persian-language digital newspaper based in London, covering Iran's politics, economy, society, environment and culture, and their impact on the international scene.

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Northwestern University

Northwestern University (NU) is a private research university in Evanston, Illinois.

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OP-20-G

OP-20-G or "Office of Chief Of Naval Operations (OPNAV), 20th Division of the Office of Naval Communications, G Section / Communications Security", was the U.S. Navy's signals intelligence and cryptanalysis group during World War II.

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Parents Music Resource Center

The Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC) was an American committee formed in 1985 with the stated goal of increasing parental control over the access of children to music deemed to have violent, drug-related, or sexual themes via labeling albums with Parental Advisory stickers.

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Pippa Malmgren

Philippa "Pippa" Malmgren is an American technology entrepreneur and economist.

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Post Consumer Brands

Post Consumer Brands (previously Post Cereals and Postum Cereals; also known as simply "Post") is an American consumer packaged goods food manufacturer headquartered in Lakeville, Minnesota.

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Prohibition

Prohibition is the act or practice of forbidding something by law; more particularly the term refers to the banning of the manufacture, storage (whether in barrels or in bottles), transportation, sale, possession, and consumption of alcoholic beverages.

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Radcliffe College

Radcliffe College was a women's liberal arts college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that was founded in 1879.

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Smith College

Smith College is a private liberal arts women's college in Northampton, Massachusetts.

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A socialite is a person usually from a wealthy or aristocratic background who is prominent in high society.

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Spokesperson for the United States Department of State

The Spokesperson for the United States Department of State is a U.S. government official whose primary responsibility is to serve as the spokesperson for the United States Department of State and the U.S. government's foreign policies.

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In sports broadcasting, a sports commentator (also known as a sports announcer or sportscaster) provides a real-time live commentary of a game or event, traditionally delivered in the present tense.

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Stanford University

Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University) is a private research university in Stanford, California.

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Susan Ford Bales

Susan Elizabeth Ford Bales (born July 6, 1957) is an American author, photojournalist, and former chair of the board of the Betty Ford Center for alcohol and drug abuse.

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Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs

The under secretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs is currently a top-ten ranking position in the U.S. Department of State tasked to help ensure public diplomacy is practiced in combination with public affairs and traditional diplomacy to advance U.S. national interests.

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University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California.

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University of Chicago

The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois.

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University of Montana

The University of Montana (UMT or UM) is a public research university in Missoula, Montana.

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University of Nebraska–Lincoln

The University of Nebraska–Lincoln (Nebraska, NU, or UNL) is a public land-grant research university in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States.

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University of Texas at Austin

The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas.

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University of Wisconsin–Madison

The University of Wisconsin–Madison (University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin, UW, UW–Madison, or simply Madison) is a public land-grant research university in Madison, Wisconsin, United States.

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Vassar College

Vassar College is a private liberal arts college in Poughkeepsie, New York, United States.

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Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States.

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Wellesley College

Wellesley College is a private women's liberal arts college in Wellesley, Massachusetts. Mount Vernon Seminary and College and Wellesley College are Universities and colleges established in 1875.

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Women's colleges in the United States

Women's colleges in the United States are private single-sex U.S. institutions of higher education that only admit female students.

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Women's suffrage

Women's suffrage is the right of women to vote in elections.

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World War I

World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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YWCA

The Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) is a nonprofit organization with a focus on empowerment, leadership, and rights of women, young women, and girls in more than 100 countries.

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See also

George Washington University

Universities and colleges established in 1875

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Vernon_Seminary_and_College

Also known as Mount Vernon College for Women, Mount Vernon Seminary, Mount Vernon Seminary for Girls.

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