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Vassar

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Vas·sar  (vsr), Matthew 1792-1868.
American merchant and philanthropist who was an advocate of higher education for women and endowed Vassar College (1861).


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Now there's Morgan le Fay, as fresh and young as a Vassar pullet, to all appearances, and here is this old duke of the South Marches still slashing away with sword and lance at his time of life, after raising such a family as he has raised.
A Connecticut Yankee by Twain, Mark View in context
The pay-envelope army that moves to work every morning in Telephonia would be a host of one hundred and ten thousand men and girls, mostly girls,--as many girls as would fill Vassar College a hundred times and more, or double the population of Nevada.
The History of the Telephone by Casson, Herbert N. View in context
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