Springfield College (Massachusetts)
Springfield College is a private, coeducational university located in Springfield, Massachusetts. Springfield College is most famous as the site where the sport of basketball was invented. Professor James Naismith invented the game in 1891 when Springfield College was known as the International Young Men's Christian Association Training School.
Springfield College's campus is located on the City of Springfield's second largest body of water (after the Connecticut River), Watershops Pond. It lies approximately two miles from downtown Springfield, the site of its central business and entertainment districts. There are two main sections to the main campus, and eleven satellite campuses around the United States: Houston; San Diego; Tampa; Boston; Manchester, New Hampshire; St. Johnsbury, Vermont; Charleston, South Carolina, Milwaukee; Los Angeles, and Wilmington, Delaware.
Springfield College is best known for its programs in the allied health sciences, human and social services, sports movement activities, and arts and sciences. The mission of Springfield College is to "educate students in spirit, mind, and body for leadership in service to humanity —" a concept defined by the school as "Humanics".
Springfield College is a part of the Hartford-Springfield regional alliance for economic and cultural partnership known as New England's Knowledge Corridor.
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“Perhaps you have forgotten me. Dont [sic] you remember a long black fellow who rode on horseback with you from Tremont to Springfield nearly ten years ago, swimming your horses over the Mackinaw on the trip? Well, I am that same one fellow yet.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
“The mode of founding a college is, commonly, to get up a subscription of dollars and cents, and then, following blindly the principles of a division of labor to its extreme,—a principle which should never be followed but with circumspection,—to call in a contractor who makes this a subject of speculation,... and for these oversights successive generations have to pay.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)