Morehouse Maroon Tigers football
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Former names
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Atlanta Baptist Seminary Atlanta Baptist College |
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| Motto | Latin: "Et Facta Est Lux" |
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Motto in English
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And there was light |
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Private Liberal Arts Men's College HBCU |
| Established | 1867 |
| Endowment | $130 million |
| President | William Taggart (Interim President) |
| Students | 2,193 |
| Location | Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. |
| Campus | 61 acres, Urban |
| Newspaper | The Maroon Tiger |
| Colors | Maroon and White |
| Athletics | NCAA Division II SIAC |
| Nickname | Maroon Tigers |
| Mascot | The Maroon Tiger |
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NAICU CIC Annapolis Group ORAU ACS Oberlin Group |
| Website | morehouse |
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| 1867 | Augusta Institute established |
| 1879 | Institute moved to Atlanta and name changed to Atlanta Baptist Seminary |
| 1885 | The seminary moved to its present location |
| 1897 | The school was renamed Atlanta Baptist College |
| 1913 | School renamed to Morehouse College |
| 1929 | Morehouse entered into a cooperative agreement with Clark College and Spelman College (later expanded to form the Atlanta University Center) |
| 1975 | The Morehouse School of Medicine established |
| 1981 | The Morehouse School of Medicine became independent from Morehouse College |
Coordinates: 33°44′48″N 84°24′55″W / 33.74667°N 84.41528°W
Morehouse College is a private, all-male, liberal arts, historically African American college located in Atlanta, Georgia. The college is one of the few remaining traditional men's liberal arts colleges in the United States.
Morehouse is the largest men's college in the United States with an enrollment over 2,000 students. The student-faculty ratio is 13:1. Along with Clark Atlanta University, Interdenominational Theological Center, Morehouse School of Medicine and nearby women's college Spelman College, Morehouse is part of the Atlanta University Center. In 1881, both Morehouse and Spelman students were studying in the basement of Atlanta's Friendship Baptist Church.
Morehouse is one of two historically African American colleges in the country to produce Rhodes Scholars, and it is the alma mater of many African American community and civil leaders, including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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