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Widener University traces its origins to Wilmington, Delaware, where it began in 1821 as a small Quaker school for boys.  During the next 180 years the school was transformed numerous times, changing into Pennsylvania Military Academy, Pennsylvania Military College, PMC Colleges, Widener College and finally Widener University, a comprehensive doctorate-granting university on four campuses.  Much of the story of this rich and diverse history can be found here, in the many exhibits of photographs, oral and written histories, yearbooks, school newspapers, scrapbooks, and more.

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