Editing Reed College (section)

==History==
[[File:Eliot-hall-in-snow.jpg|right|thumb|Reed College's [[Eliot Hall (Reed College)|Eliot Hall]] on a snowy day]]
The Reed Institute (the legal name of the college) was founded in 1908 and held its first classes in 1911. Reed is named for Oregon pioneers [[Simeon Gannett Reed]] (1830–1895) and [[Amanda Reed]] (died 1904).<ref name="history">{{cite web |url=http://web.reed.edu/about_reed/history |title=Mission and History |access-date=December 18, 2007 |work=About Reed |publisher=Reed College}}</ref> Simeon was an entrepreneur involved in several enterprises, including trade on the [[Willamette River|Willamette]] and [[Columbia River]]s with his close friend and associate, former Portland Mayor [[William S. Ladd]]. Unitarian minister [[Thomas Lamb Eliot]], who knew the Reeds from the church choir, is credited with convincing Reed of the need for the school.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.reed.edu/reed_magazine/march2011/articles/features/dream/amandas_dream3.html|title=Fighting for Amanda's Dream|date=March 2011|website=Reed Magazine|access-date=2016-03-08}}</ref> Reed's will provided for the gift,<ref>{{cite web |last1=Ingham |first1=Jennifer |last2=Brunette |first2=Sally |last3=Lassleben |first3=Lauren |title=Timeline of Reed College Events (to 1959) |url=https://alumni.reed.edu/oral_hist_timeline.html |website=alumni.reed.edu |publisher=REED College |access-date=3 October 2018 |date=2004}}</ref> and Ladd's son, William Mead Ladd, donated 40 acres from the Ladd Estate Company to build the new college.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Colver |first1=MaryLou |title=Ladd Estate Company |url=https://oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/ladd_estate_company/#.W7UAFBNKii4 |website=The Oregon Encyclopedia |publisher=Portland State University and the Oregon Historical Society | date=17 March 2018|access-date=3 October 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= http://web.reed.edu/alumni/oral_hist_timeline.html |title= Retrieved on 19 December 2007 |publisher=Web.reed.edu |access-date=November 13, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |url=https://www.reed.edu/reed_magazine/sallyportal/posts/2011/parker-house-featured-on-holiday-tour.html |last1=Barton |first1=Randall S. |title=Parker House Featured on Holiday Tour |journal=Reed Magazine |date=June 2017 |volume=96 |issue=2 |access-date=3 October 2018}}</ref> Reed's first president (1910–1919) was [[William Trufant Foster]], a former professor at [[Bates College]] and [[Bowdoin College]].<ref name=":6" />

Reed was founded explicitly as a reaction against the "prevailing model of East Coast, [[Ivy League]] education", its lack of [[Varsity team|varsity athletics]], [[Fraternities and sororities|fraternities]], and exclusive [[Eating clubs|social clubs]] – as well as its [[coeducational]], [[nonsectarian]], and [[Egalitarianism|egalitarian]] status – intended to foster an intensely academic and intellectual college.<ref name="reaction">{{cite book |title=The Hidden Ivies |last=Greene |first=Howard |author2= Matthew Greene |year=2000 |publisher= [[HarperCollins|HarperCollins Publishers Inc.]] |location=New York |isbn= 0-06-095362-4 |pages= 206–207}}</ref>

During the 1930s, President [[Dexter Keezer]] was concerned about the fraternization among male and female students and the consumption of alcohol by students. A large portion of the Student Council took the position that Oregon's liquor laws did not apply to Reed's campus. Policies restricting the ability of students from visiting the dormitories of the opposite sex were fiercely resisted.<ref name="reedbook">{{cite book |last1=Sheehy |first1=John |title=Comrades of the Quest |date=2012 |publisher=Oregon State University Press |location=Corvallis, Oregon |isbn=978-0-87071-667-6}}</ref>

After [[World War II]] the college saw its enrollment numbers dramatically increase as veterans began enrolling in the college.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Reed College|url=https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/reed_college/#.YFU0otqSmUk|access-date=2021-03-19|website=www.oregonencyclopedia.org}}</ref>

The college has developed a reputation for the [[Progressivism in the United States|political progressivism]] of its student body.<ref name=":9">{{Cite web |title=Most Liberal Colleges {{!}} The Princeton Review |url=https://www.princetonreview.com/college-rankings/?rankings=most-liberal-students |access-date=2025-05-12 |website=www.princetonreview.com |language=en}}</ref>