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Widener University. / 39.8607; -75.3551. Widener University is a private university in Chester, Pennsylvania. The university has three other campuses: two in Pennsylvania ( Harrisburg and Exton) and one in Wilmington, Delaware . Founded as The Bullock School for Boys in 1821, the school was established in Wilmington, Delaware.
Widener University Law School was founded in 1971 as the Delaware Law School and became affiliated with Widener in 1975. In 1989, it was known as Widener University School of Law when it was combined with the campus in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. In 2015, the two campuses separated, with the Harrisburg one renamed to Widener University ...
The Widener University School of Law in Harrisburg was founded in 1989, as an expansion of Widener University's existing law school in Wilmington, Delaware. Anthony J. Santoro, who served as Dean of law from 1983 to 1992, felt that there was a need for legal education in Harrisburg, the capital city of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
The Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library, housing some 3.5 million books in its "vast and cavernous" [2] stacks, is the centerÂpiece of the Harvard College Libraries (the libraries of Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences) and, more broadly, of the entire Harvard Library system. [3] It honors 1907 Harvard College graduate and book collector ...
Lynnewood Hall is a 110-room Neoclassical Revival mansion in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania.Currently undergoing renovations after sitting nearly vacant for years, it was designed by architect Horace Trumbauer for industrialist Peter A. B. Widener and built between 1897 and 1900.
Joseph Early Widener (August 19, 1871 – October 26, 1943) was a wealthy American art collector who was a founding benefactor of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. A major figure in thoroughbred horse racing , he was head of New York 's Belmont Park and builder of Miami 's Hialeah Park racetrack in Florida.
The Widener Pride football team represents Widener University in college football. The football team has had recent success winning the MAC championship in 2012 and an "Elite 8" appearance in the Division III Playoffs, the ECAC Southwest Bowl in 2011, [2] and the ECAC South Atlantic Bowl in 2005. [3] Its greatest success has been winning the ...
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States.