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| 1841 Manhattanville is founded by Mother Aloysia Hardy as the Academy of Sacred Heart, a Catholic boarding school for girls, on Houston Street in New York City. |
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1847 The Academy relocates to the property of Jacob Lorillard on the far Upper West Side of Manhattan, in the neighborhood of Manhattanville.
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1860s Approximately 200 young women from the United States and abroad attend the Academy, which includes elementary grades and high school.
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| 1888 The Academy is mostly destroyed by fire. New buildings open in 1889. |
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| 1917 The Academy is chartered as the College of the Sacred Heart by the New York State Board of Regents |
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| 1938 After the college receives its first application from an African-American, Mother Grace Dammann, President of the College, gives her famous talk "Principles vs. Prejudice."` |
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| 1943 to 1948 Responding to wartime needs, the College opens a School of Nursing, in addition to its pre-med program. |
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