The little college that wouldn't die. (Shimer College)

In 1964 the Harvard Educational Review hailed tiny Shimer College in Mt. Carroll, Ill., for an "ideal intellectual climate" in which professors didn't lecture but rather led students through discussions of the Great Books. By 1977, however, Shimer had fallen into the cost crunch that...

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