Vassar College
an American institution of learning, established by Matthew Vassar in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., in 1861, for the higher education of women. The first donation was $428,000 for buildings and furnishings. This amount was increased by a bequest_of $360,000. Later Matthew Vassar, Jr., gave the institution $130,000 and John Guy Vassar, $444,000. There have since been large donations from other persons.
The campus, which contains 210 acres, is 3 miles from the Hudson river, and is GREEK VASE mostly laid out as a park. The reports for 1919 showed: Professors and instructors, 121; students, 1,120. President, H. N. MacCracken, LL. D. ও VASSAR