EARLHAM COLLEGE

private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Richmond, Ind., U.S. It is affiliated with the Society of Friends (Quakers). A four-year liberal arts college, it offers bachelor's degree programs in the humanities, social sciences, religion, fine arts, and natural sciences. About three-fourths of the students spend a term in an off-campus study program, including programs in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. Research facilities include an observatory, an herbarium, and a working farm. Total enrollment is approximately 1,200. The college was founded in 1847 as the Friends' Boarding School. It was chartered by the state of Indiana as Earlham College in 1859. The college began the state's first natural history collection in 1853; it is now home to the Joseph Moore Natural History Museum. The Conner Prairie Pioneer Settlement, a living-history museum located outside of Indianapolis, is operated by the college. Joseph G. Cannon, speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1903 to 1911, was an alumnus of Earlham College.