Radcliffe, Ann, 1576-1661.
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Ann Radcliffe, Lady Mowlson, the first woman donor to Harvard College, gave the sum of one hundred pounds to aid "some poore Scholar" in 1643. President Eliot of Harvard recommended that the "Harvard Annex" be named in her honor. In 1894, The Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women was rechartered and named Radcliffe College in her honor, adopting her coat of arms as its official seal.
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