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HISTORY OF VASSAR COLLEGE
Vassar College is on the east bank of
the Hudson, near Poughkeepsie, N.Y. It
was founded in 1861. In that year
Matthew Vassar, a wealthy brewer of
Poughkeepsie, gave to an incorporated
board of trustees the sum of $108,000
and 200 acres of land for the endowment
of a college for women
The building was constructed from plans
approved by him, at a cost of about
$200,000. The college was opened in
September, 1865, with eight professors
and twenty other instructors, and 300
students. |
