Wabash College

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Established

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1832

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Mottoes

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Scientiae et Virtuti

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Wabash Always Fights

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School type

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Private, Men's

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President

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Dr. Andrew T. Ford

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Location

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Crawfordsville, IN, USA

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Crawfordsville - IN - USA

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Enrollment

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860 undergraduate

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Faculty

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90

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Endowment

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$347,337,300

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Campus

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55 acres (.2 km²)

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Sports

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NCAA Division III

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Team name

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The Little Giants

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Website

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www.wabash.edu

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Wabash College is a small private liberal arts college for men, located in Crawfordsville, Indiana. It was founded in 1832 by a number of men including several Dartmouth College graduates and Caleb Mills, the man who would later become the father of the Indiana public education system and would work throughout his life to improve in the Mississippi Valley area. Patterning it after the liberal arts colleges of New England, they resolved "that the institution be at first a classical and English high school, rising into a college as soon as the wants of the country demand." After declaring the site at which they were standing would be the location of the new school, they knelt in the snow and conducted a dedication service. Although Mills, like many of the founders, was a Presbyterian minister, they were committed that Wabash should be independent and non-sectarian.

Related Topics:
Liberal arts college - Crawfordsville, Indiana - 1832 - Dartmouth College - Mississippi Valley - New England - Presbyterian - Independent - Non-sectarian

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The school's sports teams are called the Little Giants. They participate in the NCAA's Division III and in the North Coast Athletic Conference. Every year since 1911, Wabash College plays rival DePauw University in the Monon Bell Classic. Wabash College is a member of the Great Lakes Colleges Association.

Related Topics:
NCAA - North Coast Athletic Conference - 1911 - DePauw University - Monon Bell - Great Lakes Colleges Association

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Over its nearly two hundred years of history, Wabash faculty has included such influential intellectuals as poet Ezra Pound. Colonel Henry B. Carrington was professor of military science from 1870 to 1878.

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Ezra Pound - Henry B. Carrington

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Wabash, along with Hampden-Sydney College and Morehouse College and two other schools, are the only five remaining all-men's liberal arts colleges in the United States. In contrast, there are many more all-female liberal arts colleges.

Related Topics:
Hampden-Sydney College - Morehouse College - Men's liberal arts colleges

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A substantial endowment places Wabash amongst the top 120 colleges and universities in the nation, and on a per-student basis, amongst the top 25. This endowment drives a generous scholarship program. The benefactors that have funded this endowment include the pharmaceutical industrialist Eli Lilly, the company he founded, and his heirs. The school's library, named after Lilly, houses a portion of the Eli Lilly company archives, along with those of Earlham College, Connor Prairie, and the Indiana Historical Society.

Related Topics:
Pharmaceutical - Industrialist - Eli Lilly - Earlham College

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