LEANDER CLARK COLLEGE, before 1906 known as WESTERN COLLEGE, is located at Toledo, Iowa. It was founded by the Iowa i Conference of the United Brethren in Christ ; was incorporated in 1856; and was opened to students in 1857. It was first located at West ern, Linn County, but was moved to Toledo in 1881. In 1889 the main building was destroyed by fire, but was immediately rebuilt. The board of trustees consists of representatives of the alumni and of five conferences of the United Brethren and three members-at-large. The college is open to men and women on equal terms. Two regular college courses are offered, the classical and the scientific, and the degrees of A.B. and B.S. are conferred. Both courses are almost entirely elective in the last two years, the list of electives differing in the two courses. In addition to the collegiate de partment, there are the Academic or Prepara tory School, the Conservatory of Music, the College of Commerce, the School of Elocu tion and Oratory and the Department of Art.
Graduates from the collegiate courses are ad mitted to the senior year of Yale, Chicago and Smith without examination. The buildings in clude the main building, the Bright Conserva tory of Music, Mary Beatly Hall (the dormi tory for young women), Drury Hall (the young men's dormitory) and the College Church. The faculty number 16 instructors; the average annual attendance of students is 240; tuition fees amount to $65; living ex penses, board, etc., $162; productive funds $203,000; income, including tuition and inci dental charges, $21,663; the graduates since or ganization number 617. The library contains 7,500 volumes.