Saint Mary’s College

college, South Bend, Indiana, United States
Also known as: Saint Mary’s Academy

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  • Notre Dame, University of
    In University of Notre Dame

    Mary’s Academy (later St. Mary’s College), was opened in 1844. The university added science, law, and engineering departments, an academic press, and a library in the 1860s and ’70s. In the 1920s the secondary school was discontinued, and the university was reorganized into colleges. It was in the…

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  • In Edward Frederick Sorin

    …the French sisters, who founded St. Mary’s College there, a small liberal arts college for women and the motherhouse of the Sisters of Holy Cross. He began publishing Ave Maria magazine in 1865 and served as provincial superior of the Congregation of Holy Cross in the United States until 1868,…

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