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BEREA , a See also:town of See also:Madison See also:county, See also:Kentucky, U.S.A., 131 M. by See also:rail S. of See also:Cincinnati. Pop. (1900) 762. Berea is served by the See also:Louisville & See also:Nashville railway. It is pleasantly situated on the border between the See also:Blue Grass and the See also:Mountain regions. The town is widely known as the seat of Berea See also:College, which has done an important See also:work among the mountaineers of Kentucky and of See also:Tennessee. The college has about 70 acres of ground (and about 4000 acres of mountain See also:land for forestry study), with a large recitation See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall, a library, a See also:chapel (seating 1400 persons), a See also:science hall, an See also:industrial hall, a See also:brick-making plant, a woodwork See also:building, a See also:printing building, a See also:tabernacle for commencement exercises and other buildings. In 1908 Berea had 65 instructors and 115o students; and it paid the tuition of 141 See also:negro students in See also:Fisk University (Nashville, Tennessee) and in other institutions. The school out of which Berea College has See also:developed was founded in the See also:anti-See also:slavery interests in 1855. An See also:attempt was made to procure for it a college See also:charter in 18J9, but the slavery interests caused it to be closed before the end of that See also:year and it was not reopened until 1865, the charter having then been obtained, as Berea College. Negroes as well as whites were admitted until 1904, when See also:education of the two races at the same institution was prohibited by an See also:act of the See also:state legislature (upheld by the U.S. Supreme See also:Court in 1908). This act did not, however, prohibit an institution from maintaining See also:separate See also:schools for the two races, provided these schools were at least 25 M. apart, and a separate school for the negroes was at once projected by Berea.
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