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Wesleyan University

a coeducational institution in Middletown, Conn.

In 1830 the original buildings, North College and South College, which had been erected for a military academy, came into the possession of the New York and New England Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church; in 1831 services to aid in the training of stua charter was obtained, and the unidents, so they need not be forced to seek versity opened its doors and offered its higher education outside their Church.

From 1872 to 1908 the institution was opened to women, but those entering in 1908 were allowed to graduate. It has a fine observatory, well-appointed laboratories and cabinets, and a large modern gymnasium. It reported at the close of 1919: Professors and instructors, 53; students, 595; volumes in the library, 114,000; president, William Arnold Shanklin, L. H. D., LL. D. most important of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in England during the 6th, part of the 9th, and that in which the other kingdoms were ultimately merged part of the 9th, and that in which the in the reign of Egbert in 827. It inin the reign of Egbert in 827. It included the present counties of Devon, Dorset, Somerset, Wilts, Hants, Berks, and a part of Cornwall.

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