16 Facts About Elmira College

1.

Elmira College is a private college in Elmira, New York.

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2.

Elmira College became coeducational in all of its programs in 1969.

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3.

Elmira College has an extensive Mark Twain archive and is home of the Center For Mark Twain Studies, dedicated to the promotion and support of Twain-related scholarship.

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4.

Elmira College began to distance itself from the Presbyterian Synod of Geneva.

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5.

Elmira College stressed hiring better professors to secure larger graduating classes.

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6.

Elmira College had three presidents in the first seven years after Cowles resigned.

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7.

Elmira College was often forced to become the interim president while a replacement was found.

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8.

One person whom MacKenzie brought to Elmira College was Martha Harris, who became dean of the school in 1901.

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9.

Elmira College's ordered the removal of sash curtains from students' rooms, though critics feared that the girls would be subjected to voyeurs.

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10.

Elmira College was unique in respect to previous presidents because he was not a clergyman.

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11.

Lewis Eldred replaced him as the ninth president of Elmira College; he took office in June 1949 and left five years later.

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12.

Elmira College is a member of the NCAA, New York State Women's Collegiate Athletic Association, ECAC, UCHC, and Empire 8.

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13.

Elmira College sponsored men's wrestling in the early 1970s but the sport was later discontinued.

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14.

Elmira College holds several NCAA Division III National Championships in Women's Ice Hockey as well as in NCA Competitive Cheerleading.

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15.

Eighty years, Elmira College possessed an observatory built by Professor Charles Farrar.

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16.

School had Elmira College Apartments built a block south of Tompkins Hall in 1948.

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