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Lincoln University in Pennsylvania is a four-year University located on in southern Chester County . The University also hosts a Center for Graduate Studies which is located within the City Of Philadelphia . Currently, Lincoln University provides undergraduate and graduate coursework to approximately 2,000 students. As Horace Mann Bond noted in his book ''Education for Freedom'' (A History of Lincoln University, Pennsylvania), "This was the first institution founded anywhere in the world to provide a higher education in the arts and sciences for youth of African descent." Today, Lincoln University is an institution of higher learning that provides a liberal arts and science-based undergraduate core curriculum and select graduate programs to prepare students of every Race and nationality. Lincoln is a " State-related " university, meaning it receives public funds and offers reduced tuition for Pennsylvania residents but is under independent control. Lincoln University has many notable alumni, including Thurgood Marshall , Langston Hughes , Hildrus Poindexter , Horace Mann Bond , Roscoe Lee Browne , Robert L. Carter , Nnamdi Azikiwe , Kwame Nkrumah , and Melvin B. Tolson . Nnamdi Azikiwe and Kwame Nkrumah were the first President/Prime Minister of Nigeria and Ghana respectively, fulfilling John Miller Dickey's vision of Lincoln University as a training institution for African leadership. Lincoln University alumni have held key leadership positions at more than 35 colleges and universities and scores of prominent churches. Seven Lincoln alumni founded the following U.S. or foreign universities: South Carolina State University , Livingstone College , Albany State University , Texas Southern University , Ibeme Memorial College, Nigeria, Ibibio State College, Nigeria, and Kwame Nkrumah University Of Science And Technology , Ghana. At least 10 of its alumni have served as United States ambassadors or mission chiefs. Many are federal, state and municipal judges, and many others have served as mayors or city managers. The University also hosts a number of successful student activities, including a chorale that performed for Rosa Parks , and a number of other luminaries, at her 77th birthday celebration at the Kennedy Center, and a Track and Field program that has won 17 NCAA Division III Championships. In addition to being geographically close, Lincoln shares historical ties to Princeton University . Isaac Norton Rendall, an early president of Lincoln and alum of Princeton University and its Seminary , developed Lincoln's early curriculum based upon his experience at Princeton. The similarities also extend to the official colors of the two universities and their mascots (Lincoln’s Orange and Blue Lions compared with Princeton's Orange & Black Tigers). HISTORY 1854: Lincoln University was founded as Ashmun Institute by the Rev. John Miller Dickey, a Presbyterian minister, and his wife, Sarah Emlen Cresson (a Quaker ) and named after Jehudi Ashmun , a religious leader and social reformer. Lincoln University's (Ashmun Institute's) ties to Africa and youth of African descent was a significant component of the framework for the institution's creation. Specifically, John Miller Dickey's first student - John R. Amos, his brother Thomas H. Amos, and Armistead Miller were trained to support the establishment of Liberia upon their graduation. 1866: Ashmun Institute was renamed Lincoln University after the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln . 1873: Lincoln University's Schools of Law and Medicine were closed. 1884: Lincoln University was one of the earliest schools to produce a publication for alumni. Early noted writers for Lincoln's "Alumni Magazine" included abolitionist, orator, and educator Frederick Douglass . 1910: President William Howard Taft conferred degrees to the Lincoln University's Class of 1910 on June 18. 1921: President Warren G. Harding addressed the Class of 1921 at the Alumni Arch on June 6. 1946: Albert Einstein relented on his long-standing policy of not speaking or accepting honorary degrees, when he spoke during and received an Honorary Degree from Lincoln University in May 1946 . As noted in the "''Einstein File''" by Fred Jerome, "Einstein clearly intended to send a message to a wider audience his stance on racism in the United States ." However, while almost all of Einstein's public speeches and interviews were widely covered by the major media, most of the press treated this particular address by the world-famous scientist as a "non-event". 1950: Lincoln University was the first historically Black college or university to become affiliated with the College Entrance Examination Board. 1950: Albert C. Barnes , a local scientist and entrepreneur, amended the by-laws of his art collective, the Barnes Foundation , to enable the Board of Trustees of Lincoln University to nominate four of the five Trustees upon the demise of all the original Trustees - giving Lincoln primary responsibility for one of the largest private art collections in the world. 1951: On June 5, Lincoln University bestowed an Honorary Doctor of Science to Dr. Albert C. Barnes. 1952: Lincoln University first admitted women students. 1959: Lincoln University's School of Theology ( Seminary ) closed. 1972: Lincoln University formally associated with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as a State-related institution. 2002: The Barnes Foundation contested Albert C. Barnes' Will , arguing that the Merion location of the collective and the small number of Board members limited the Foundation's ability to sustain itself financially. 2005: A settlement was brokered between The Barnes Foundation and Lincoln by Pennsylvania Governor Edward Rendell . Since this time, the collective has evolved into a three-campus model, with a new facility in Center City, Philadelphia. PRESIDENTS
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ATHLETICS Lincoln University participates in the NCAA Division III level. Lincoln has won 17 NCAA Division III Track & Field championships since 1985. Lincoln currently competes as a Division III independent, with no conference affiliation other than the Eastern College Athletic Conference , and the Association of D3 Independents. The success of the Track and Field program led to the creation of the co-ed athletic fellowship of Track Phi Track at Lincoln in 1983. Some of the requirements include being an All-American and/or striving to become an All-American, meeting and exceeding academic requirements in your major, and participation in Lincoln's Track & Field program for four years. The men's basketball team achieved a 46-12 record from 2004- 2006 seasons. The 2005-2006 season witnessed Lincoln's first national basketball ranking, led by All American, D3Hoops & Basketball News National Player of the Year Kyle Myricks who was dubbed by ESPN as D3's "Most Exciting Player". The Lions made the sweet sixteen for the first time in school history. On 2006-04-11 , Lincoln's Board of Trustees voted to revive the Football program, and establish Marching & Pep Bands. The University has petitioned membership in the CIAA , of which Lincoln was a founding member of the league. Lincoln will be moving from the NCAA's Division III to Division II. A club football team is scheduled for the 2008 followed with a full Division II schedule in 2009. ALMA MATER Dear Lincoln, Dear Lincoln To Thee We'll e're be true! The golden hours we've spent beneath The dear old Orange and Blue Will live fore'er in memory, As guiding stars through life; For thee our Alma Mater dear, We'll rise in our might. For we love every inch of thy sacred soil Every tree on thy campus green; And for thee with our might We will ever toil That thou mightest be supreme. We'll raise thy standard to the sky, Midst glory and honor fly; And constant and true, We will live for thee anew, Our Dear Old Orange and Blue Hail! Hail! Lincoln! A. Dennie Bibb, '13 FURTHER READING
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