RANDOLPH-MACON SYSTEM OF COL LEGES AND ACADEMIES. A system of five collegiate and preparatory institutions in Vir ginia, under Methodist control, and managed by one board of trustees, comprising a college for men, with two academies, and a college for women, with one academy. The organization is designed to secure close correlation between the preparatory school and the college, with economy of time and expense to both. Randolph-Macon College, for men, the parent institution of the system, was chartered in 1830 and opened in 1832 at Boydtou, Va. The college was closed during the Civil War and was reopened in 1S06. In 1867 it was removed to its present location, at Ashland, Va. It has no professional schools. The course is partially elective and leads to the degrees of bachelor and master of arts. Students for the ministry are exempt from tuition fees. The college had in 1902 a faculty of 10 instruc tors, 127 students of collegiate grade, an endow ment of $300,000, an income of $20.000, grounds
and buildings valued at $95,400, the total value of the college property being estimated at $119, 979. The library contained 10,000 volumes. The feeding schools of the college are the Randolph Macon Academy, at Bedford City, Va.. estab lished in 1890, and the Randolph-Macon Academy, at Front Royal, Va., established in 1892.
Randolph-Macon Woman's College was estab lished in 1891 at Lynchburg. Va. In 1902 its attendance was 276, faculty 26. It has grounds of 25 acres. valued with the buildings at $165, 000, an endowment of $100,000. with a total property valuation of about $275,000. Its in come for 1902 was $S7.500. Its library con tained 4000 volumes. Its preparatory school, the Randolph-Macon Institute, at Danville. Va., was admitted in 1897. The chancellor of the system is William W. Smith.