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VIRGINIA COLLEGE FOR YOUNG WOMEN

Virginia College ranks among the foremost Colleges
in the South for the higher education of women, and
was founded in 1893 by Dr. William Anderson Harris,
who for twenty-seven years was President of the Wesleyan
Female Institute in Staunton, Virginia. Since
the death of Dr. Harris in 1895, the College has been

under the able management of his two daughters, Miss
Mattie P. Harris and Mrs. Gertrude Harris Boatwright.

The College location is ideal, occupying ten acres of
campus, and on an eminence several hundred feet above
the city of Roanoke, commanding a panoramic view of
the Blue Ridge and Alleghany Mountains which, for
grandeur, is unsurpassed in the historical Shenandoah
Valley. The College is situated half a mile from
Roanoke, the students thus enjoying all the advantages
of a country life, yet having access by electric cars to
all parts of the city.

The buildings are arranged with special reference to
the safety, health, comfort, and convenience of the
students, and in addition to the rooms of the Faculty
and students, contain a large auditorium, study hall,
dining room, parlors, offices, music rooms, lecture
rooms, chemical and domestic science laboratories,
reading room, art studio, infirmary, etc.

The Faculty has been carefully selected from the
leading universities and colleges of America and
Europe, the management having spared neither trouble
nor expense in making Virginia College all that could
be desired in a school for effective educational work.

The Virginia College recognizes that many students
desire to specialize for one or two years, and offers
elective courses in Music, Art, Expression and Domestic
Science in addition to the regular four years' Collegiate
Course leading to the A. B. Degree.

Virginia College has a national reputation, and is
represented by about one hundred and fifty students
from over thirty-two states and one or two foreign
countries.