The University of the South, perched on a plateau in the Cumberland Mountains at Sewanee, Tenn., represents excellence in education wrapped in a tiny package. Only 787 students, all men, in habit its 10,000 acres. Its Sewanee Review is a first-rate literary quarterly. Its English department is one of the best; it has an enviable one-to-twelve teacher-student ratio, and has turned out fifteen Rhodes scholars, one of the best records among colleges its size.
Because of that reputation, and because it is one of the few (8) U.S. colleges operated by the Episcopal Church, Sewanee attracts 20% of its enrollment from...
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