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...would have seemed so improbable among the young, baffles and disturbs some professors. Says Columbia Professor-Critic Lionel Trilling: "The undergraduate of today is not very much committed to anything; or if he is, they are secret commitments." Since students have had no personal experience with war and depression, Denison University Historian
Empty treasuries and denominational rivalry have killed off all but 20 of these Ohio colleges. Of the survivors, educators often group six together because of their high academic standing in the liberal arts and sciences: Kenyon College (1824), Denison University (1832), Oberlin College (1833), Ohio Wesleyan University (1842), Antioch College (1853), and the College of Wooster (1866). Small and selective, the six produce a surprisingly large percentage of graduate students; e.g., 60% of Oberlin's male students take advanced work. Because of facts like these, no similar intrastate group of colleges and universities is more widely respected among...
...campuses differ about as widely on extracurricular activities, although all six de-emphasize intercollegiate athletics. Kenyon, the only men's college of the six, invites girls by the busload for its dances, but half the student body at Baptist Denison (1,300) and Ohio Wesleyan (2,000) is female. Wooster has no national fraternities, but Kenyon has eight, and 90% of the student body at Denison belong to fraternities or sororities. At Wooster the Presbyterian Church controls the administration; at Oberlin (no church affiliation) the faculty is the big wheel on campus, even sets salaries (top for a full...
...Ordered Diet. In the classroom, the six schools require comprehensive liberal-arts and science courses, then give students a chance to do independent work if they are willing and able. "We don't allow our students to shop cafeteria style," says Dr. A. Blair Knapp, Denison's chain-smoking, crew-cut president. Since 1948 Denison has fed its students a heavy diet of such broad courses as "Basic Philosophic and Religious Ideas" and "History of Western Civilization...
...neighbors are each other's best customers, but it is a chronic Canadian complaint that Canada gets the short end of the bargain. By the trainload and shipload, Canadian newsprint, nickel, aluminum feed the U.S. economy. The Consolidated Denison mine in Blind River, Ont. contains twice as much uranium as all the known U.S. reserves, and its entire output through 1961 is earmarked for the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. In turn, the U.S. ships industrial machinery, automobiles and consumer goods to the north, and Canada's trade deficit with the U.S. last year...