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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...
...were rated all-round excellent by their schools, and 94 listed some form of sport as their favorite hobby. ¶ Appointment of the week: Franze Edward Lund, 47, president of little (700 students) Alabama College, to succeed the late Gordon Keith Chalmers as 17th president of 133-year-old Kenyon College (enrollment 500) at Gambier, Ohio. The son of Episcopal missionaries in China and a Ph.D. (in history) from the University of Wisconsin, Lund took over Alabama in 1952. turned it coeducational, raised salaries and standards, won the reputation as perhaps the most adept college president in the state...
...rest of the advanced standing program did not originate here. In 1952-53 a group of educators led by the late Gordon K. Chalmers, president of Kenyon College, established the School and College Study of Admission with Advanced Standing--the SCSAAS--offering college-level courses in a group of experimental high schools. This "Kenyon Plan" was coordinated with a group of 12 small colleges which agreed to give advanced credit to successful participants in the program. The advanced courses began in the pilot group of high schools in the fall of '53 and the following spring Harvard inaugurated its program...
Charles poore, co-editor of the New York Times daily book reviews, Elizabeth Janeway, author of "Daisy Kenyon," and Herbert M. Alexander, editor of Pocket Books, will judge this year's competition...
Yale is ranked as the second leading university, followed by California, Chicago, Columbia, and Princeton. Haverford is called the best men's college and then Amherst, Kenyon, and Wesleyan follow in that order...