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In 1865, about how long did a school year last in West Virginia?
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What is West Virginia's oldest continuous institution of higher learning?
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This institution of higher learning's founding stems in part from losing the Mercer County seat to Princeton.
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The Mason College of Music and Fine Arts was located in which city?
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West Virginia Northern Community and Technical College was originally associated with which institution of higher learning?
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At its founding in 1961, this was the only institution of higher learning in the Ohio River Valley between Wheeling and Huntington?
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This was the first president of Storer College in Harpers Ferry.
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This person established the first teacher-training program at what is now West Virginia State University and was the first superintendent of the State Industrial Home for Colored Girls in Huntington.
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Which southern writer, known as one of the "Fugitives" who advanced agrarian values in his literature, once chaired the West Virginia University English department?
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Under this person's presidency, what is now West Virginia State University offered a civilian pilot training program and managed the first statewide Black 4-H camp in the nation.
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