WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY. The oldest college under the patronage of the Methodist Episcopal Church, founded at Middletown. Conn., in 1831. The campus of 14 acres is beautifully situated on a terrace 150 feet above the Con necticut River, and contains the five principal buildings, North and South Colleges, the Me morial Chapel, the Library (Rich Hall), and the Orange .Tudd Ilall of Natural Sciences. Other buildings are Observatory Hall, with an equa torial telescope by Alvan Clark & Sons, the electrical laboratory, and the Fayerweather Gymnasium. The grounds and buildings were valued at $087.380 in 1903, when two new build ings, Wilbur Fisk Hall, named after the first president. and the Scott Physical Laboratory, were erected at a cost of $220.000. The uni versity offers three parallel courses of four years, classical, Latin-scientific, and scientific, leading to the degrees of bachelor of arts, philosophy, and science. In each course nearly all the stud
ies of the first year are prescribed. the amount of required work being progressively diminished in the three remaining years. The institution is coeducational. but the number of women in the college in any year is limited to 20 per cent. of the total enrollment of the preceding year. In connection, with commencement week of 1903 an elaborate celebration took place in honor of the 200th anniversary of the birth of John Wesley. In that year the attendanee was 322, the faculty numbered 36, and the li brary contained 63.000 volnines. The total value of the property under control of the col lege was 82,131.131, with an endowment of $1, 473,75T, and a gross income of $113,811.