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Established
  
1898

Colors
  
Blue & Gold

Founded
  
1898

Campus
  
2 Campuses

Website
  
The Principia

Color
  
Blue & Gold

Type
  
Private school, Private college

Location
  
St. Louis, Missouri, United States

Motto
  
As The Sowing, The Reaping

Similar
  
Principia College, Fontbonne University, St Louis College of Pharmacy, Maryville University, Jefferson College

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The Principia is an educational institution for Christian Scientists located on two campuses in the St. Louis, Missouri metropolitan area of the United States. Principia School, located in West St. Louis County, serves students from early childhood through high school and Principia College, located about thirty miles away, is on the bluffs overlooking the Mississippi River in Elsah, Illinois.

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History

Founded by Mary Kimball Morgan, Principia School was officially opened in 1898 in St. Louis. By 1906, Principia had graduated its first high school class and in 1912, the Junior College was added, becoming one of the first such colleges in America. The year 1917 marked the first graduation ceremony of alumni from the Junior College and in 1934 Principia College awarded its first bachelor's degrees. Principia College moved to Elsah, Illinois in 1935 after distinguished architect Bernard Maybeck had been commissioned to design a new campus for Principians there. Prinicpia School later moved to its current location in the St. Louis suburb of Town and Country, Missouri in 1955.

Principia School

All three schools of Principia School are located on a 360-acre campus in the St. Louis suburb of Town and Country. Principia School follows a British-style organization and as such its schools are as follows:

  • Lower School
  • Middle School
  • Upper School
  • Principia College

    Principia College is a private liberal-arts college located on the bluffs of the Mississippi River in Elsah, Illinois. The school offers various comprehensive programs, remarkable for its small size. The college is an undergraduate institution and does not offer any graduate programs.

    Alumni

    Notable Principia alumni include:

  • Dean Smith, American pioneer pilot.
  • References

    The Principia Wikipedia