Vassar

[ vas-er ]

noun

1. Matthew, 1792–1868, U.S. merchant, philanthropist, and supporter of education for women; born in England: founder of Vassar College.

Example Sentences

In sports, the coronavirus causes major disruptions in the fall football schedule, the result being that on a single afternoon the New York Jets wind up losing to both the Kansas City Chiefs and Vassar.

From Washington Post

He also has a history degree from Vassar College and a graduate degree in American Studies from Colombia.

From The Daily Beast

The men in The Group behave with glibness, condescension, and even brutality toward the Vassar grads.

From The Daily Beast

Now, if you went to Vassar or an Ivy something like that, you think: great!

From The Daily Beast

She dropped out of Vassar to study painting in Paris, where she modeled for Vogue.

From The Daily Beast

After high school, Bourdain went to Vassar for a couple of years, experimented with drugs and dropped out.

From The Daily Beast

With feminine scorn no fair Vassar-bred lass at us Shall smile if we own that we cannot read Tacitus.

From Project Gutenberg

Pupils and teachers who had gone from Oberlin to Vassar both missed the pleasant excitement of the old life.

From Project Gutenberg

She is a tender daughter, as well as a capable "observer;" and she would not come to Vassar without her father.

From Project Gutenberg

Matthew Vassar was seventy-six years old on the 29th of April, and that day is a perpetual festival for the pupils.

From Project Gutenberg

In furnishing Vassar College, no one has had to think what any thing would cost.

From Project Gutenberg