Examples of Universalism in the following topics:
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- For example, New York carefully selected valuable timber land in Wisconsin to fund Cornell University.
- The state of Iowa was the first to accept the terms of the Morrill Act, which provided the funding boost needed for the fledgling Ames College (now Iowa State University).
- Among the 70 colleges and universities which eventually evolved from the Morrill Acts are several of today's historically black colleges and universities.
- Wealthy philanthropists, for example, established Johns Hopkins University, Stanford University, Carnegie Mellon University, Vanderbilt University, and Duke University; John D.
- Rockefeller funded the University of Chicago without imposing his name on it.
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- Deism is a religious philosophy that holds that reason and observation of the natural world in a form other than organized religion can determine that the universe is the product of (an) intelligent creator(s).
- According to Deists, the creator rarely, if ever, either intervenes in human affairs or suspends the natural laws of the universe.
- Deists typically reject supernatural events such as prophecy and miracles, tending instead to assert that a god (or "the Supreme Architect," a term used to neutrally represent deity) does not alter the universe by intervening in it.
- This idea is also known as the clockwork universe theory, in which a god designs and builds the universe but steps aside to let it run on its own.
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- Unitarianism and Universalism were early Christian denominations that spread quickly during the nineteenth century.
- Americans from these religious backgrounds gradually created a new denominational tradition of Christian Universalism during the nineteenth century.
- John Murray, who is called the "Father of American Universalism," was a central figure in the founding of the Universalist Church of America in 1793.
- Another important figure in early American Christian Universalism was George de Benneville, a French Huguenot preacher and physician who was imprisoned for advocating Universalism and later emigrated to Pennsylvania, where he continued preaching on the subject.
- Discuss the central commitments and development of Unitarianism and Universalism in the United States
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- For example, New York carefully selected valuable timber land in Wisconsin to fund Cornell University.
- With a few exceptions, including Cornell University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, nearly all of the Land-Grant Colleges are public.
- Cornell University, while private, administers several state-supported contract colleges that fulfill its public land-grant mission to the state of New York.
- Among the 70 colleges and universities that eventually evolved from the Morrill Acts are several of today's "Historically Black Colleges and Universities" (HBCUs).
- Kansas State University was the first college funded by land grants under the Morrill Act of 1862.
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- Several different groups advocated for community colleges in the early twentieth century, including students and parents, educators, businesses, state universities, and government officials.
- Numerous colleges and universities advocated for the development of junior colleges.
- Hill was actively involved in the American Association of Universities and calling for the establishment of junior colleges for this purpose.
- Other examples of sub-baccalaureate programs were the University Preparatory School and Junior College of Tonkawa.
- Dean Schneider of the University of Cincinnati developed an alternative high school with a cooperative plan where students spent one week in an occupation and the other in school.
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- Pearson case was crucial to overcome Jim Crow laws excluding blacks from the University of Maryland law school.
- It targeted the exclusion of blacks from the University of Maryland law school.
- Donald Gaines Murray sought admission to the University of Maryland School of Law on January 24, 1935, but his application was rejected on account of his race.
- Murray appealed this rejection to the Board of Regents of the university, but was refused admittance.
- Pearson, president of the university, to admit Murray to the law school.
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- Sutton paid for its schools by means of taxes on households with children only, thereby creating an active constituency in favor of universal education for both white boys and girls.
- The University of Iowa became the first coeducational public or state university in the United States in 1855, and for much of the next century, public universities (and land-grant universities in particular) would lead the way in mixed-gender higher education.
- There also were many private coeducational universities founded in the nineteenth century, especially west of the Mississippi River.
- East of the Mississippi, Cornell University admitted its first female student in 1870.
- Notable examples include the prestigious Seven Sisters; within this association of colleges, Vassar College is now coeducational and Radcliffe College has merged with Harvard University.
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- Carnegie did give away his fortune, creating many institutions such as the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now part of Carnegie Mellon University) to upgrade craftsmen into trained engineers and scientists.
- Among the first land-grant colleges were Purdue University, Michigan State University, Kansas State University, Cornell University (in New York), Texas A&M University, Pennsylvania State University, The Ohio State University and the University of California.
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- This major piece of legislation was followed by the Higher Education Act of 1965, signed into United States law on November 8, 1965 at Texas State University.
- The Act increased federal money given to universities, created scholarships and low-interest loans for students, and established a national Teacher Corps to provide teachers to poverty-stricken areas of the United States.
- This signing plaque rests on campus grounds of Texas State University commemorating the Higher Education Act.
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- The first organized college sports club was formed in 1843 when Yale University created a boat club.
- Harvard University then followed in their footsteps, creating a similar boat club a year later.
- This competition featured a two-mile race between athletes from Amherst College, Cornell University, and McGill University of Montreal, Canada.
- The first intercollegiate rugby game took place on May 15, 1874, at Cambridge, Massachusetts when Harvard played rugby against McGill University.
- The first intercollegiate football game between teams from Rutgers College (now Rutgers University) and the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) took place on November 6, 1869, at College Field, in New Brunswick, New Jersey, on what is now the site of Rutgers' College Avenue Gymnasium.