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The New International Encyclopædia/Muhlenberg College

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1190343The New International Encyclopædia — Muhlenberg College

MUHLENBERG COLLEGE. A collegiate institution at Allentown, Pa., under the control of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, incorporated in 1867. It consists of a preparatory and a collegiate department, the latter with classical and scientific courses leading to the degrees of B.A. and B.S. The total attendance in 1902 was 137. The faculty numbered 13. The college library contained 12,000 volumes. The campus of five acres and the college buildings were valued at $100,000. In 1902 a new site of 52 acres was purchased, on which new buildings were begun, at an estimated cost of $200,000. The income for the year was $16,764, and the endowment was $163,977.