Warren Beatty a Hollywood star, he decided to work as a stagehand at the National Theatre in Washington, D.C. during the summer before his senior year. After graduation, he was reportedly offered ten football scholarships to college, but turned them down to study liberal arts at Northwestern University (1954–55), where he joined the Sigma Chi fraternity. After his first year, he left college to move to New York City, where he studied acting under Stella Adler at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting. Fearing that his acting career would be interrupted by being drafted, Beatty used a well-thought-out scheme to resolve the
Charles Clinton Beatty Theological Seminary (now Pittsburgh Theological Seminary). In 1829, he and his wife founded the Steubenville Female Seminary in Steubenville, Ohio and he was superintendent. In 1861, he received an honorary degree from Washington College. He was elected trustee of Washington College on September 1, 1863. On November 6, 1863, Beatty, offered $50,000 to entice ailing Washington College and Jefferson schools to unify. Beatty had a number of familiar and social connections to Washington College, including a stint in leadership of the Synod of Wheeling. This inducement was enough to encourage the schools to unify as Washington & Jefferson College. On