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...applied for admission to Swarthmore ("I think it offers more opportunity for independent study in philosophy, and I would like very much to teach philosophy in college"). In a terse letter, Swarthmore rejected him, as usual giving no reason. Though he now expects to go to Minnesota's Carleton, which readily accepted him, the news from Swarthmore stunned his fellow students at East High. Its apparent meaning: the advantage that Western youth had in the desire of Eastern colleges for "geographical distribution" is melting away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Excellent & Rejected | 5/19/1961 | See Source »

Currently Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Wichita, Miss. Habin graduated from Carleton College in 1931 and received a Ph.D. in English from the University of Kansas...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Cliffe Names Habein Admissions Director | 4/15/1961 | See Source »

...Congregationalist minister, Gallagher was himself so ordained after graduating from Minnesota's Carleton College ('25). In 1933 he took on a difficult, decade-long task, the presidency of Alabama's Negro Talladega College, where he adroitly worked to heal local race relations, became a top white official of the N.A.A.C.P. In 1952, after serving as professor of Christian ethics at the Pacific School of Religion irr Berkeley, Calif., then as U.S. Assistant Commissioner for Higher Education, Gallagher took over City College. It was a bad moment: City was dishonored by one of the messier basketball-bribe scandals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: From Biggest to Biggest | 4/14/1961 | See Source »

...CARLETON STOVER Bath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 19, 1960 | 12/19/1960 | See Source »

...themselves. What most of them have in common is that if they are not nationally known, they deserve to be. One happy result of the U.S. race for college is the rising fame of colleges that seemed obscure only a few years ago. Such good small schools as Carleton. Claremont Men's, Colby, Lawrence, Mills, Occidental, Pomona, Reed or Scripps are hardly "unknown" any more. Each is now almost as tough to get into as the East's most favored campuses-and well worth trying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Little Known | 12/5/1960 | See Source »

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