Introduced on Matthew Vassar’s 219th birthday, April 29, 2011, A Documentary Chronicle of Vassar College was completed to the end of 2001 during the sesquicentennial year, 2011. It will continue by 10-year increments into the future. Search the Chronicle →
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This week in history
1875, June 23 Among the 1,000 people packed into the "intensely hot" Chapel for Vassar's 9th Commencement were the hero of the Battle of Fort Fisher (1865), General Alfred Terry, and Elisha Pease, the civilian governor of Texas at the outset of Reconstruction.