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...long passages from the Bible by heart, to revel in family choruses of Onward, Christian Soldiers and Work, for the Night Is Coming. His boyhood heroes were Paul Revere and John Paul Jones, and his favorite authors were G. A. Henty (Among Malay Pirates; Redskins and Colonists) and Charles Carleton Coffin (The Boys...
Particularly irksome to the colleges is the apparent implication that students and professors are more suspect than other groups. Said Carleton's President Laurence M. Gould: "We give $6 billion to the farmers but don't expect any loyalty oath." Said President Courtney Smith of Swarthmore: "Sheer nonsense. You don't start out by saying that you don't trust your students, by asking a 17-year-old freshman to take an oath...
Inside Criticism. Standards at Carleton are high; each student must take at least two years of English, science and foreign language. There are no soft majors; in mathematics, chemistry and biology, outstanding students do original research. Yet President Gould is a scientist who quotes from Archibald MacLeish's J.B. without making it appear a stunt, and the humanities at Carleton-particularly English, music and history-are if anything better than the sciences...
...Carleton is not without its own severe critics. Not long ago the faculty completed an assessment of the college, decided that the cherished 10.5-to-1 student-faculty ratio and 1,000-odd enrollment were wasteful. Result: by 1965, the ratio will be increased to 12.5-10-1 (students will do more independent studying), and the enrollment raised...
...Carleton students, like their peers across the U.S., are not visibly anguished by issues; said one senior: "If anything bothers the students it's that nothing really does bother them." Yet, says History Professor Catherine Boyd. "I've never had students who worked so hard. We have students who come to us as freshmen and are already working toward a Fulbright." Carleton has few distractions; Northfield is sleepily sedate, and the college bans cars, so socializing is mostly of the walk-and-talk kind. Even the occasional big stomp-and-holler has a cloistered flavor; last year Duke...