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Beaver is the home of one of the best known
and most popular educational institutions in the great Keystone
State, Beaver College and Musical Institute. The climate is healthful
and the facilities for reaching the school are unsurpassed. The
village is absolutely free from saloons or places of vice and
the moral atmosphere is clean and healthful. The college buildings
are new and in furnishings and equipment are as perfect as can
be made.
The main college building is of brick, heated by hot water system,
and well lighted and ventilated. Attached to this is the young
ladies' domitory and dining hall. The President's residence is
opposite. There are 276 pupils enrolled, of whom, about 25 percent,
are young men. The college has four courses leading to the degrees
of Bachelor of Arts, Sciences, Letters or Music, while Master
of Arts will be conferred on graduates who have completed one
year of resident study, or two years post graduate work in another
institution.
This institution was originally founded in 1853 as the Beaver
Female Seminary, under the patronage of the Pittsburgh Conference
of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The present college building
was erected in 1895 in place of the old structure destroyed by
fire. (1905)