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In 1869, Queen's became the first university west of the Maritimes to admit women to classes and by the mid-1870s, enrollment had grown from 15 to more than 100 students. However, it was not until the Principalship of the Rev George Monro Grant (1877-1902) that Queen's achieved a position as one of Canada's premier universities.
A Brief History of Campus. On March 7, 1842, two professors and 13 students met for Queen's University's first class in a small wood-frame house at 67 Colborne Street. In the fall of 1842, they moved to rented quarters at 320 Princess Street, a stone building opposite St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, the meeting place of Queen's first trustees.
Queen's Encyclopedia is a reference tool documenting Queen's University, its history, and its people. Each entry is significant to Queen's history and its evolution as both an academic institution and a community.
Oct 8, 2017 · The University of Tennessee evolved from Blount College, chartered by the territorial legislature in 1794; rechartered in 1807, it became East Tennessee College and qualified to receive federal land grants. In 1840 it received university status.
Aug 20, 2015 · The University of Tennessee traces its beginnings to 1794, before Tennessee was even a state. But behind that founding date, which gives UT a claim to be one of the nation’s oldest public universities, is a story of stressful decades when the tiny college almost ceased to exist, changed its name and its campus, and only through the tenacity ...
Founded in 1794, two years before Tennessee became the 16th state, it is the flagship campus of the University of Tennessee system, with ten undergraduate colleges and eleven graduate colleges. It hosts more than 30,000 students from all 50 states and more than 100 foreign countries.
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Oct 8, 2017 · In the twentieth century, the University of Tennessee emerged as a modern university, with professional schools of medicine, dentistry, nursing, and pharmacy, all located in Memphis. This institution is now known as the University of Tennessee, Memphis, the Health Services Center.
