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Delaware, University of (dĕl`əwâr, –wər), at Newark, Del.; land-grant and state-supported; coeducational; founded 1743 as a Presbyterian school, moved to Newark 1765, and chartered as Newark Academy by the Penns in 1769. It became Newark College in 1833 and was designated a land-grant college in 1870. It was called Delaware College (for men) from 1843 to 1921. In 1921 Delaware College and the affiliated women's college (founded 1913) were merged to form the present institution. The Delaware Geological Survey is there.
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