Monmouth College
a coeducational institution in Monmouth, Ill.; founded in 1856 under the auspices of the United Presbyterian Church; reported at the close of 1919: Professors and instructors 26; students, 254; president, T. H. McMichael, D. D. moved at pleasure. By placing under the string a diagram of the proportionate lengths of string required for the production of just intervals, the ear can be trained. The results obtained from it were called the harmonical canon. It is said to have been invented by Pythagoras.