BELOIT  , a

city of Rock county, Wisconsin, U.S.A., situated on the S. boundary of the state, on Rock river, about 91 M . N.W. of Chicago and about 85 m . S.W. of Milwaukee . Pop . (189o) 6315; (1900) 10,436, of whom 1468 were foreign-born; (1910) 15,125 . It is served by the Chicago & North-Western, arid the Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul railways, and by an inter-urban electric railway to Janesville, Wisconsin and Rock-ford, Illinois . Beloit is attractively situated on high bluffs on both sides of the river . The city is the seat of Beloit College, a co-educational, non-sectarian institution, founded under the auspices of the Congregational and Presbyterian churches in 1847, and having, in 1907–1908, 36 instructors and 430 students . It has classical, philosophical (1874) and scientific (1892) courses; women were first admitted in 1895 . The Greek department of the college has supervised since 1895 the public presentation nearly every year of an English version of a Greek play . The river furnishes good water-power, and among the manufactures are wood-working machinery, ploughs, steam pumps, windmills, gas engines, paper-mill machinery, cutlery, flour, ladies' shoes, cyclometers and paper; the total value of the factory product in 1905 was $4,485,224, 6o •2 omorethanin1900 . Beloit, founded by New Englanders in 1838, was chartered as a city in 1856 .