Oread Institute
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The Oread Institute, founded in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1849 by Eli Thayer, was the first all-female college in the United States, and only the second college to admit women (the first being Oberlin).
The Oread Institute closed in 1881.
External links
- Oread Institute history (http://www.assumption.edu/ahc/Oread/default2.html), hosted by Assumption College