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(Encyclopedia) Royal Victoria College: see McGill Univ. ...

(Encyclopedia) Morris Brown College: see Atlanta Univ. Center. ...

(Encyclopedia) McBain, Howard Lee, 1880–1936, American political scientist, b. Toronto, Ont., grad. Richmond (Va.) College, 1900, Ph.D. Columbia, 1907. After teaching at George Washington and Wisconsin universitie...

(Encyclopedia) McCarthy, Kevin Owen, 1965–, U.S. politician, b. Bakersfield, Calif., grad. California State Univ., Bakersfield (B.S. 1989, M.B.A. 1994). A conservative Republican, he was elected to the California ...

(Encyclopedia) Dodds, Harold Willis, 1889–1980, American educator, b. Utica, Pa., grad. Grove City College, 1909, M.A. Princeton, 1914, Ph.D. Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1917. He taught economics and political science ...

(Encyclopedia) election, choosing a candidate for office in an organization by the vote of those enfranchised to cast a ballot. In the United States, Canada, Mexico, Great Britain, and many other nations, usuall...

(Encyclopedia) North College Hill, city (1990 pop. 11,002), Hamilton co., SW Ohio, a suburb of Cincinnati; inc. as a city 1940. It is mostly residential. The Clovernook Center for the Blind there has a braille print...

(Encyclopedia) Saint Mary's College, at Notre Dame, Ind., near South Bend; Roman Catholic; for women; est. 1844 as St. Mary's Academy, chartered 1850 at Bertrand, Mich.; moved and chartered 1855. The school shares c...

(Encyclopedia) Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania: see Medical College of Pennsylvania. ...

(Encyclopedia) Mary Washington College, mainly at Fredericksburg, Va.; state supported; chartered 1908 as the State Normal and Industrial School for Women; first given its present name in 1938; coeducational since 1...