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...Shimer has fewer courses than any college going," says its president, F. Joseph Mullin, 56, and he means it as a boast. Largely unknown and unsung outside the Midwest, Shimer (rhymes with rhymer) aims to be not a training school of the professions but a "community of scholars.'' The Episcopal-related college has no departments, and teachers move through the school's three areas-humanities, social sciences and natural sciences-as easily as do the students. The chaplain, for example, teaches drama...
...Mullin, a burly, bespectacled physiologist with a West Texas drawl, came from a professorship at the University of Chicago medical school to become president of Shimer. By virtue of having taught doctors, he had one driving conviction-that professional men by and large are too narrowly educated, and need a broad liberal schooling before going into graduate schools...
Since Shimer has no endowment, Mullin began to pass the hat, now raises as much as $150,000 a year as compared with the $5,000 typical of the early '50s. He has doubled faculty salaries (the average Shimer salary is now $6,100), and doubled the faculty too-always with an eye for the man who would fit his concept of a community of scholars...
...years ago, a group of Hirschfield's students were weighing the pros and cons of a year of study abroad. They wanted to go, but hated to give up Hirschfield's courses in humanities and history. "They got to talking with me about it," says Mullin, "and I said, why not just send Hirschfield along?" He did, and a tenth of Shimer's student body got both Europe and its favorite teacher, who taught them mornings in Paris bistros. "And you know," Mullin adds, "they all did better on their comps than the rest of their classmates...
...cadets' standout Bill Straub is top man in both the mile and two mile. Harvard no longer has Mark Mullin in the mile, but Meehan and Hamlin are no pushovers. The relay should go to Army...