Elmira College

rdf:langString Elmira College

rdf:langString Elmira College

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rdf:langString Suburban, 42 acres

rdf:langString Entrance at College and Washington Avenues

rdf:langString Purple and gold

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rdf:langString Seal of Elmira College.jpg

rdf:langString Soaring Eagle

rdf:langString Charles Lindsay

rdf:langString Elmira College is a private college in Elmira, New York. Founded as a college for women in 1855, it is the oldest existing college granting degrees to women that were the equivalent of those given to men. Elmira College became coeducational in all of its programs in 1969. The college has an enrollment of under 850 students. The school's colors, purple and gold, are seen throughout the traditional campus, consisting mainly of buildings of the Victorian and Collegiate Gothic architectural styles. The colors purple and gold come from both the banners of the women's suffrage movement and the iris, the college flower. Offered are about thirty-five major areas of study, each ultimately leading to either a BS or BA degree upon a successful completion of undergraduate studies. Students attend two full terms in the fall and winter and then enroll in a 6-week, intensive "Term III" in the spring. This gives students an opportunity to study abroad, intern, or take classes not related to their majors, to enrich the educational experience. Elmira College has an extensive Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) archive and is home of the Center For Mark Twain Studies, dedicated to the promotion and support of Twain-related scholarship. The octagonal study in which Twain wrote many of his most widely read novels, including A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, is located on campus, and the Center maintains Quarry Farm, where the Clemens family spent more than twenty Summers, as a research facility for Twain scholars. Every four years the college hosts the International Conference On The State of Mark Twain Studies.