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on/fn to fund a hospital and university in Baltimore. At the time, this donation, generated primarily from the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, was the largest

authorized in 1817 as the federal highway, and ran from Baltimore to St. Louis. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O), the first chartered railroad in the United

continued in more subtle forms and Conyers finally resigned in October 1873. In 1874, the curriculum was altered to study naval topics in the final two

the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. The university, one of nine colonial colleges, was the first college established in Pennsylvania and one

named a sea-grant college in 1976 to support its programs in oceanography and marine sciences and was named a space-grant college in 1989 to support its

northeast, Ohio to the east, the Ohio River and Kentucky to the south and southeast, and the Wabash River and Illinois to the west. Nicknamed "the Hoosier State"

denomination and their descendants together in a religious and cultural festival. Delaware voted against secession on January 3, 1861, and so remained in the Union

professor in 1932 and 1933. During World War II, Caltech was one of 131 colleges and universities nationally that took part in the V-12 Navy College Training

developed in legal cases like those of John Punch in 1640 and John Casor in 1655. Laws passed in Jamestown defined slavery as race-based in 1661, as inherited

led by Spanish explorers Hernando de Soto in 1540–1541, Tristan de Luna in 1559, and Juan Pardo in 1566–1567. In 1673, English fur trader Abraham Wood sent

institutions, including Yale University in New Haven, as well as other liberal arts colleges and private boarding schools in and around the "Knowledge Corridor"

populations, and western white residents were underrepresented in the state legislature. More subsistence and yeoman farmers lived in the west, and they were

were included in the territory, the port of Georgetown, founded in 1751, and the port city of Alexandria, Virginia, founded in 1749. In 1791 and 1792, a team

News and is ranked #8 in the 2025 edition of the Best Colleges in the National Liberal Arts Colleges category. Candidates for admission must apply directly

to Curtis Bay, Baltimore in 1900 and to Fort Trumbull in 1910, a Revolutionary War–era Army installation in New London, Connecticut. In 1914, the school

community meetings, and opportunities for collaboration throughout the year. As of 2016, UCAR comprises 109 member colleges and universities and 52 international

Deaf and Dumb from 1864 to 1865 and then would be known as the National Deaf-Mute College until 1894. In recognition of his hard work in helping the institution

scholarships to U.S. universities and assists in the strengthening of developing countries' own universities. Local universities' programs in developmentally

Building C – Built in 1956 and renovated in 1995, it has 216 dormitory rooms. Building D – Built in 1926 and renovated in 1965 and 1995, it is a three-story

bridges, and obstacles and defensive positions; place and detonate explosives; conduct route clearance operations; emplace and detect landmines; and fight