About Hobart and William Smith Colleges

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Hobart and William Smith Colleges are private modern arts colleges in Geneva, New York. They relish their origins to Geneva Academy customary in 1797. The colleges provide the degrees of Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, and Master of Arts in teaching.

The colleges were originally separate institutions – Hobart College for men and William Smith College for women – that shared near bonds and a contiguous campus. In 1943, William Smith College was elevated from its indigenous status as a department of Hobart College to an independent literary and the two colleges time-honored a joint corporate identity. They are officially chartered as “Hobart and William Smith Colleges” and informally referred to as “HWS” or “the Colleges.” Although allied in one corporation once many shared resources and overlapping organization, they have each retained their own traditions.

Geneva is a city in Ontario and Seneca counties in the U.S. state of New York. It is at the northern decrease of Seneca Lake; all home portions of the city are within Ontario County; the water portions are in Seneca County. The population was 13,261 at the 2010 census. The city is supposedly named after the city and canton of Geneva in Switzerland. The main treaty of the Seneca was spelled Zoneshio by upfront white settlers, and was described as subconscious 2 miles north of Seneca Lake.

The city borders and was once (the part in Ontario County) part of the Town of Geneva. The city identifies as the “Lake Trout Capital of the World.”