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...When Carleton College began to instruct the young of Northfield, Minn, in 1867, its faculty consisted wholly of a stout-souled Dartmouth graduate named Horace Goodhue Jr., who taught 14 classes a day. Nine years later and still not overstaffed, the college lost a good man when Treasurer Joseph Heywood tried to prevent an unauthorized withdrawal from the bank he served as cashier-and was gunned down by Jesse James's boys. If the Congregational college's endowment vanished with the Missouri badman, it did not weigh heavily in his saddlebags; at any rate, Carleton-named first...
Since those penny-poor early days, Carleton has acquired a handful of handsome buildings and a topnotch faculty, today has an enrollment of 1,050 and is generally acknowledged to be one of the country's best private coeducational colleges. But its slim endowment of $8,500,000 places it among the respectable poor of good U.S. educational institutions. Carleton's top professors are paid meagerly, its physics and biology facilities are old and cramped, its students need dormitories, and its only stage is a makeshift affair in a 110-seat basement theater. To mend the bare spots...
Informed Alarm. Last week, running the college with casual, kindly autocracy, waving to undergraduates as he stomped about the campus, Carleton's President Laurence McKinley Gould went about the business of finding the money. His method: to bedevil the rich with reports of the U.S.'s conspicuous complacency-much as Economist Thorstein Veblen (Carleton '80) once hounded them with charges of "conspicuous consumption." A scholar who would be concerned about U.S. educational standards if Russia were inhabited solely by musk oxen, Gould does not hesitate to point with alarm at the Red satellites long after the furor...
...hours-long session did frantic officials make sense out of what they finally decided they had seen. First to finish the 635-mile thrash to the "onion patch" was the 64-ft. yawl Good News. Overall winner on corrected time, for the second time in a row, was Carleton Mitchell's beamy keel-and-centerboard yawl Finisterre...
...Riding powder-puff breezes. Racing Master Carleton Mitchell skippered his stubby, 39-ft. Finisterre with his familiar finesse, made the most of a long windward beat to win the 184-mile blue-water Miami-Nassau race for the second year...