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Randolph (THOMAS an English poet)

THOMAS, an English poet and dramatist; born in Houghton, Northamptonshire, England, in 1605.

He was educated at Westminster and Cambridge, and was admitted to a fellowship. He early began to write, and gained the friendship of Shirley, and Ben Jonson. He left a number of bright, fanciful, and occasionally too glowing poems, and six plays: "Aristippus, or the Jovial Philosopher"; "The Conceited Peddler"; "The Jealous Lovers"; "The Muses' Looking Glass"; "Amyntas, or the Impossible Dowry"; and "Hey for Honesty." He died in March, 1635.

RANDOLPH-MACON SYSTEM RANDOLPH-MACON SYSTEM OF COLLEGES AND ACADEMIES, a group of five colleges and preparatory schools, under the Methodist Church, located in the State of Virginia. There is a college for men, the Randolph-Macon College, which has two preparatory schools leading up to it, viz.: the Randolph- Macon Academy at Bedford City, Va., and the Randolph-Macon Academy at Front Royal, Va. The system is designed to avoid loss of time and to better correlate the work of the preparatory school with the college. The college for men was founded before the War, but closed during that struggle to reopen at its present present location, Ashland, Va. In 1914-1915 the faculty consisted of 15 professors, and the student body numbered 190.

The Randolph-Macon Womens' College is situated at Lynchburg, Va., and its preparatory school is the Randolph- Macon Institute at Danville, Va. The college has attained a high position among the leading higher educational institutions for women, and has been more successful in securing students than the men's college. The enrollment of 1914- 1915 amounted to more than 600 students, with a faculty of 45 instructors.