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...start, Berea's fees were minimal (it charges no tuition). Its first barefooted students merely brought whatever they could. Some came with potatoes, others with eggs; one boy walked 50 miles leading a cow. Then a few students began to bring homemade quilts, and these, President William Frost discovered, could be sold. From quilts, the students went on to furniture, gradually built up Berea's famed Student Industries which now do some $400,000 worth of business a year...
...Good Teacher. Today, the college's 1,162 students still divide their time between study and labor. But as a result of the administrations of Frost, William J. Hutchins and his son Francis, the old campus looks like anything but a pioneer settlement. Its endowment has grown to $16 million. It has a school of nursing, runs a 357-student Foundation School where anyone, no matter what his age, can get a basic education. Berea students help run the college's 65-bed hospital. They can study forestry on its 5,600 acres of woodland, learn agriculture...
...hearty ditto to all you have to say about Dylan Thomas [May 30], but I am amazed, confused, and decidedly annoyed at the offhand manner in which you have dealt with Robert Frost . . . Did you seek to vault Thomas even higher in the literary castes by forcing Frost nearly out of the picture ? . . . Perhaps I misunderstood; I certainly hope...
...Robert Frost, poet . . . . . . . LL.D...
...George Frost Kennan . . . . . L.H.D...