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Henry Fowle Durant
American philanthropist
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establishment of Wellesley College
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…in 1875, was founded by Henry Fowle Durant to provide women with college opportunities equal to those of men. Wellesley was the first women’s college to have scientific laboratories, and its physics laboratory was the second in an American college. The Wellesley campus, on the shore of Lake Waban, includes…
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