| LC control no. | n 79023216 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Corporate name heading | Fordham University |
| Variant(s) | Fordham University, New York |
| See also | St. John's College (Bronx, New York, N.Y.) |
| Beginning date | 1907-03-07 |
| Special note | AACR 1 form: Fordham University |
| Found in | NUCMC data from Library of Congress, Manuscript Div. for Mead, M. Margaret Mead papers and South Pacific Ethnographic Archives, 1838-1980 (Fordham University) New Catholic Encyc. (Fordham University; first called St. John's College, in honor of St. John the Baptist, opened June 24, 1841; April 10, 1846, N.Y. St. Legis. granted college power to confer lit. honors, degrees, and diplomas; June 1846 school placed under direction of Jesuits from St. Mary's, Kentucky, who had purchased the college property; on March 7, 1907, the charter of St. John's College was amended and the institution received the corporate name of Fordham University; the college of liberal arts remained St. John's College, Fordham University until Nov. 19, 1931, when it was renamed Fordham College) |
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