March 14, 1954

Harding College in Searcy (White County) was accredited by the North Central Association. The school, founded in 1924 from the combination of two struggling junior colleges, has grown from an initial enrollment of seventy-five college-level students and 173 elementary and high school students into a university that is the largest private educational institution in the state.

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