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Hamline University is a private liberal arts college in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. Founded in 1854, Hamline is the oldest institution of higher learning in Minnesota. It is one of five Associated Colleges of the Twin Cities and is named after Bishop Leonidas Lent Hamline; it maintains an... affiliation with the United Methodist Church. The school has a total enrollment of approximately 4,900 undergraduate and postgraduate students. In 2010 it ranked first in Minnesota and ninth in the U.S. within the U.S. News and World Report  Regional Universities—Midwest category. Linda N. Hanson is the university's 19th president, inaugurated in 2005. Hamline's School of Law is noted for its prestigious Alternative Dispute Resolution program, ranking second in the nation. Hamline was named in honor of Leonidas Lent Hamline, a bishop of the Methodist Church whose interest in the frontier led him to donate $25,000 toward the building of an institution of higher learning in what was then the territory of Minnesota. Today, a statue of Bishop Hamline sculpted by the late professor of art Michael Price stands on campus.
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Fresno is a city in central California, United States, the county seat of Fresno County. As of the 2010 census, the city's population was 510,365, making it the fifth largest city in California, the largest inland city in California and the 34th largest in the nation. Fresno is located in the... center of the San Joaquin Valley of Central California, approximately 200 miles north of Los Angeles, and 170 miles south of the state capital, Sacramento. Metropolitan Fresno has a population of 1,107,416. The name Fresno is the Spanish language word for the ash tree, and an ash leaf is featured on the city's flag. The original inhabitants of the San Joaquin Valley region were the Yokut people, who engaged in trading with other California tribes of Native Americans including coastal peoples such as the Chumash of the Central California coast, with whom they are thought to have traded plant and animal products. The County of Fresno was formed in 1856 after the California Gold Rush. It was named for the abundant mountain ash trees lining the San Joaquin River. Fresno is the Spanish word for white ash trees.
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