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...Davidson College is an educational paradox. Trying to fan the flames of a 116-year-old liberal tradition, the college at the same time demands an almost rigid conformity from each of its 800 students...
Founded in 1837 by sturdy Scotch-Irish Presbyterians, the school dominates the tiny town of Davidson, in the Pledmont region of North Carolina. The small men's college operates under the belief that its primary aim should be the all-round development of each of its students. For this reason, equal emphasis is placed on the religious, the physical, and the social facets of education, in addition to academic growth...
Fundamental to the Davidson concept of general education is the school's connection with the Presbyterian Church. Although the founders of the college proposed "To educate youth of all classes without any regard to the distinction of religious denominations, and thereby to promote the more general diffusion of knowledge and virtue," the student body of Davidson today is half Presbyterian, and religious education plays a major part in the Davidson scheme of things...
Social education at Davidson is provided through a unique system of fraternity system is an extreme emphasis ternity spirit generated by the closely-knit nature of the college community...
Like their country cousins at Dartmouth, Davidson men must rely on an abundance of spirit to tide them over the womanless days before each weekend. But unlike Dartmouth, Davidson generates its spirit from within, without any aid from Demon Rum, for the college rules state that "any student found guilty of drinking alcoholic liquors, having them in his possession, or being under their influence on the campus, is dismissed...