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Date 1833 - present
Areas Of Involvement coeducation • liberal arts
Notable Alumni Liz Phair • Julie Taymor • Lena Dunham • Joshua Angrist • Richard Theodore Greener • Alison Bechdel • William Goldman • Mary Ann Bickerdyke • Anna Julia Cooper • Robert Millikan • John Mercer Langston • Howard Thurman • Robert Maynard Hutchins • Anderson Abbott • Johnnetta Cole • Carl Rowan • J. Hillis Miller • Jerry Rubin • Stanley Cohen • Roger Wolcott Sperry • Bruce Catton • John Langalibalele Dube • John Kander

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