Catalog, 1915-1916 - Hoover Library

1916J 17
General
Information
Location
The College is located in Westminster, Carroll County,
Maryland, a city of about four thousand inhabitants, thirtyfour
miles west of Baltimore, with which it is connected by
the Western Maryland Railroad. Westminster is situated in
one of the most healthy and beautiful parts of Maryland, and
no place could be more desirable as the site for an institution
of learning. It is quiet and retired, yet easily accessible and
in ready communication with the outside world by railroad,
telegraph and telephone. Its streets are lighted by electricity;
it has an abundant supply of pure water; its inhabitants
breathe an invigorating mountain air, and enjoy the advantages
and refinement of a modern city.
The College occupies an eminence at the west end of the
city, about one thousand feet above tidewater, which affords
a view rarely equaled in extent, variety and beauty.
The Peculiar Advantage
this College offers is that parents can have their .sons and
daughters educated in the same institution and under the same
instruction. It was the first College in the South to offer equal
educational facilities to both sexes. But it is not strictly coeducational.
Although both sexes have the same course and
the same instructors, they do not recite together and the two
departments are kept entirely separate, the students meeting
only at chapel service and in the dining-room with members of
the Faculty, and at 'no other time unless under similar supervision.
Domestic Arrangements
The President, with his family, resides in the College cl,1mpus,
and, with the Vice-President and other members of the
Faculty, who reside in the College, constantly seeks to provide
all the comforts and enjoyments of a well ordered home.