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Miami University is a public research institution located in southwestern Ohio in Oxford that was founded ... 1824, the first classes were held. Enrollment rose over the next decade until it peaked in 1839 with 250 students. The University temporarily closed in 1873 due to lack of funding and decreased enrollment. After reopening in 1885, Miami ...

Miami and the funds for Miami's operation became insufficient. The University closed in June of 1873, but reopened in 1885, largely through the efforts of alumni. Co-education came in 1888, when Ella McSurely became the first girl to attend classes at Miami. Soon afterwards, all classes were opened

Old Miami, which had for a time been the preeminent college in the early West, was on its last legs when Andrew Dousa Hepburn became president of the university in 1871. Hepburn tried to save the struggling school; but as the enrollment dwindled to eighty-seven students, the trustees had no choice but to suspend classes in 1873 "with a view ...