Established in 1864, Swarthmore was one of the most punctual coeducational universities in the United States.[citation needed] The school was sorted out by a board of trustees of Quakers from three "Hicksite" yearly gatherings: Baltimore, New York, and Philadelphia. A large number of the organizers were unmistakable in the abolitionist and ladies' rights developments and other social concerns and included Edward Parrish, (1822-1872), Deborah and Joseph Wharton, Benjamin Hallowell, and James and Lucretia Mott, (1793-1880). Swarthmore was set up to be a school, "...under the consideration of Friends, at which a training might be gotten equivalent to that of the best establishments of learning in our nation." By 1906, Swarthmore dropped its religious alliance, turning out to be authoritatively non-sectarian.[citation needed]
Swarthmore is an individual from the "Tri-College Consortium", an agreeable course of action among Swarthmore, Bryn Mawr, and Haverford Colleges.
The College was established in 1864 by a council of Quakers who were individuals from the Philadelphia, New York and Baltimore Yearly Meetings of the "Religious Society of Friends" ("Quakers"/"Hicksite"). Edward Parrish, (1822-1872), was its first president. Lucretia Mott, (1793-1880), and Martha Ellicott Tyson, (1795-1873),[11] were among those Friends, who demanded that the new school of Swarthmore be coeducational. Edward Hicks Magill, the second president, served for 17 years.[12] His little girl, Helen Magill, (1853-1944), was in the top notch to graduate in 1873; in 1877, she was the primary lady in the United States to acquire a Doctor of Philosophy degree, (Ph.D.) - hers was in Greek from Boston University in Boston, Massachusetts.
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