The story
Since its foundation in 1875, Kobe College continues to provide a well-balanced education for women based on Christian principles. This is expressed in the school badge and color designed in 1885 by E.M. Brown, the third college president. The motif of the school badge is the honewort which expresses the harmony of "body," "spirit," and "soul." The school color is dark blue which expresses "peace" and "truth."
History
1873: Eliza Talcott and Julia Elizabeth Dudley, two Congregational missionaries from Rockford, the US as members of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, opened a private school at Hanakuma-mura, Kōbe.
1875: The two missionaries founded a boarding school for young women so-called "Kōbe Home" (神戸ホーム), on Yamamoto Street in Kōbe.
1879: Kōbe Home was renamed Kōbe Girls' School (女學校, jogakkō); the following year it was organized along a five-year (high school) curriculum, unique at that time. The school changed its name to Kōbe Eiwa-jogakkō (神戸英和女学校)."
1885: A one-year college division was established.
1891: A three-year curriculum in the college division initiated full-scale, higher education for women.
1894: Kōbe Eiwa-jogakkō was renamed Kobe College (神戸女学院, Kōbe jogakuin).
1906: A Department of Music was founded.
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1909: A four-year higher education division was founded.
1919: The higher education division was granted a permit to use the term university (大学, "daigaku") in its Japanese name.
1920: Charlotte B. DeForest, the president of Kobe College, discussed the incorporated entity for fundraising to support the construction of a new campus, which is now on Okayama. As an independent organization, the Kobe College Corporation is incorporated in Illinois, U.S.A.
Kobe College graduate school
1933: The new campus is dedicated to Okayama, Nishinomiya, and Hyōgo Prefecture.
1965: A graduate course was established with two specialties: English literature and sociology.
1989: English literature specialty was installed.
2002: A course was established in comparison culturology specialty in the last part of a doctor.
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