American Government and Human Capital:

Women’s colleges came later with Mt. Holyoke (1837), Elmira (1853), Vassar (1861), Wellesley (1871), Smith (1871), and Bryn Mawr (1881) among the first schools to be established. In 1855 Michigan was the first state to create by law an agricultural college, opening for students in East Lansing in 1857. In 1862 this institution—today’s ... ................
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