Word: wheaton
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...financial gains that go along with coeducation may come at the price of women's achievement. A recent study of Wheaton College, which went coed in 1988, showed that the school's men tended to get the lion's share of attention from faculty. "You lose something in the process of going coed," says Peter Mirijanian, spokesman for the Women's College Coalition. "You can't have it both ways...
...substantial battalion of devotees, Clive Staples Lewis -- the Christian apologist, children's fabulist and Oxbridge don who died in 1963 -- was a contemporary saint. His latest biographer notes with some bemusement that there is a kind of shrine to his memory at Illinois' evangelical Wheaton College: one of his old tankards is enclosed there in glass, like a relic. But difficulties face those who would canonize the author of Mere Christianity and the Narnia chronicles. A.N. Wilson, a British writer who has previously taken sensitive measure of Milton, Tolstoy and Hilaire Belloc, portrays Lewis as a blustery, hard-drinking eccentric...