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...Marlboro's scheme of general education is closely modeled on the Harvard system with strong influence from the St. John's College "100 Great Books" program. The college's Council of Academic Advisers includes Kenneth B. Murdock '16, Chairman of the Committee on General Education at Harvard...
Almost any deficiency or weakness could be overcome if Marlboro had a high enough caliber of student attending its classes. Indeed, an extremely capable student could undoubtedly educate himself at any institution of learning, if he could only obtain enough books. Marlboro, however, because of both its size and its extremely remote location does not have this ideally high-caliber student...
...Marlboro lies far outside the cultural mainstream, in its location 15 miles from Brattleboro and 3000 feet above sea level, well into the Green Mountains. There are no theatres, opera houses or research libraries nearby. In such a location the prospective students must have an inner-directed capacity for life in the wilderness or else they will find themselves bored when the long winter sets...
Perhaps the major block to reaching the best students lies in the fact that Marlboro is not an accredited college. This naturally deters many people from enrolling, which, in turn makes accreditation even more difficult...
...final analysis, the major block to accreditation is probably Marlboro's size, which keeps its income low, its financial condition definitely unstable and its academic status somewhat below the top level. With these hard facts in mind, Marlboro can find really only one escape, expansion to an enrollment considerably higher than its present 29 students...