“ It is served by the Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia & Reading railways. It is the seat of Bucknell University (coeducational) , opened in 1846 as the university of Lewisburg and renamed in 1886 in honour of William Bucknell (1809–1890) , a liberal benefactor. The university comprises a College of Liberal Arts, an Academy for Young Men, an Institute for Young Women, and a School of Music, and in 1908–1909 had 50 instructors and 775 students, of whom 547 were in the College of Liberal Arts. ”