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09/30/1852 |
Boston Normal School (first) opens. |
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1852 |
Tufts University is established in Medford. |
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1854 |
Bryant and Stratton Commercial School is established. |
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12/13/1856 |
Lowell (Abbott Lawrence) is born in Boston. |
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02/01/1857 |
Wheelock (Lucy) is born in Cambridge. |
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1858 |
Widow of Benjamin Waterhouse makes a gift to the New England Female Medical College. |
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1859 |
Harvard graduates are criticized by Ralph Waldo Emerson. |
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1860 |
Approximately half of Harvard students come from wealthy families. |
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04/10/1861 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology holds its first classes. |
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1861 |
Harvard College up to this time is described by Richard Norton Smith. |
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