Word: citadel
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...uncommonly true to them. They have never gone coed or been closely affiliated with a women's college. Today, only three other secular, four-year liberal arts colleges can make the same claims: Wabash College (enrollment: 780) in Crawfordsville, Ind., and two state-supported military schools, the Citadel in Charleston, S.C., and Virginia Military Institute in Lexington...
...accept 70% of its applicants to fill a class of 380, and the average SAT test scores for entering freshmen were at a low point. The war in Viet Nam and pacifism at home made things even worse for military-oriented institutions. The Citadel almost closed down one of its four barracks in 1974. At V.M.I., Admissions Director Colonel William Buchanan concedes, "the bottom fell...
...outlook for the all-male colleges is far brighter today. At Washington and Lee, applications are up 40% since 1978. The Citadel has seen a 63% increase in a single year. Quality of incoming freshmen has also improved. At V.M.I., for instance, the average 1981 combined SAT score has jumped to 1,048-36 points higher than it was a decade ago and well above the national average of 890. This fall 18 National Merit Scholars matriculated at Washington and Lee; three years ago there were only three...
...they do it? "By holding the line," snaps Colonel Dennis Nicholson, a vice president of the Citadel. "We didn't alter a thing." Academically that is true. What most of the five schools did do, however, was to sell prospective students and parents harder on the traditional virtues of the small, all-male college. Among them: a teacher-student ratio of 12 to 1 or better, a conservative curriculum (Hampden-Sydney was the last U.S. college to drop its classical language requirement) and sport programs in which, as W. & L. Admissions Director Bill Hartog puts...
...problem, all agree, is the Box, and Wolfe seeks out the origins of the architecture we love to hate. In the world of modern architecture, all roads lead to the Bauhaus, that post-World War I citadel of artistic in Germany. There, under the leadership of the "Silver Prince," Walter Gropius, scores of young socialists (in name only) planned the rebuilding of Europe after the Great War. Because these folks were socialists, self-described friends of the workers, they would design for the working class with the materials of the industrial age. The Bauhaus crowd rejected anything tainted...