A class of four students (within a week increased to five) was admitted to Beloit College after examination, to enter upon a course of study drawn up on the Yale plan.

The evidence

• “Merrill, was ready to carry them along with their college studies. Accordingly, November 4, 1847, a class of four (within a week increased to five) was admitted, after examination by Mr. Merrill and the trustees, to entrance upon a course of study drawn up exactly on the Yale plan.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/15-colleges.md, Vol. 1, PDF p. 334 / book p. 306

  Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

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