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Gallaudet University
Established in 1864, Gallaudet University is the world's only accredited liberal-arts school for the hearing-impaired. The college's first hearing-impaired president was appointed after student protests in 1989. Few sports fans know that, in 1894, Gallaudet football players invented the American football huddle to prevent their opponents from reading the sign language used to call plays. Tours of the campus are available by reservation.
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George Washington University
George Washington left money in his will to endow a school of higher learning. In 1821, an Act of Congress created Baptist College, precursor to today's George Washington University. The school has played an important role in the city's gentrification, buying up townhouses and building new structures on such a scale that it has become the city's second biggest landowner after the federal government!
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