Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...community, for example, is a rather tightly-knit one. On the student level this is especially obvious. The entire student body dines at two tables in the main dining hall. In this atmosphere each student comes to know all the others, and everyone knows what everyone else is taking in the way of courses...
...faculty members, including President Paul Zens, are addressed by their first names at all times. This may possibly be considered an extreme affectation of the "progressive education" school, but in terms of community living it certainly strengthens the intimacy between faculty and students on at least the social level...
...general education. The faculty believes that by giving a student general knowledge of many fields of learning and by encouraging him to extend his scope of knowledge independently he will be able both to cope with problems of modern living and engage in advanced study on a higher level...
Marlboro lies far outside the cultural mainstream, in its location 15 miles from Brattleboro and 3000 feet above sea level, well into the Green Mountains. There are no theatres, opera houses or research libraries nearby. In such a location the prospective students must have an inner-directed capacity for life in the wilderness or else they will find themselves bored when the long winter sets...
...final analysis, the major block to accreditation is probably Marlboro's size, which keeps its income low, its financial condition definitely unstable and its academic status somewhat below the top level. With these hard facts in mind, Marlboro can find really only one escape, expansion to an enrollment considerably higher than its present 29 students...