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One of the nation's oldest colleges (founded 1696), tiny, coeducational St. John's last year got 1,400 inquiries, could admit only 120 freshmen. It now has 277 students, next year will hit its avowed limit of 300. The obvious demand tempts St. John's to...
Though U.S. big-name colleges are deluged with applicants, most of them, fearing loss of quality in size, refuse to expand. Yet all are sure that more Americans need their special academic virtues. One alternative is to start affiliates in distant places-a Yale-in-Denver or a Harvard-in...
Homer to Einstein. St. John's was itself colonized in 1937 by explorers from the University of Chicago, who set out to prove that the soundest modern education is immersion in the classics. To combat specialization, all St. Johnnies take the same nonelective diet. Instead of training for jobs...
St. Johnnies study 60 hours a week, forgo fraternities and all intercollegiate sports except boating. They have three or four Socratic-style tutorials a week in mathematics and in languages, two in a science laboratory, two in music (for the first three semesters), plus two weekly seminars on the great...
¶ "Children who are to become eminent do not like schools or schoolteachers." Many famed men found their own homes more stimulating, preferred to skip school and read books omnivorously. Today's "regimented schools" would not consider them college material.