Evergreen in WA state. Buncha damn hippies.

Bennington in Vermont. Buncha damn rich hippies.

My old school, Brown. Grades are A/B/C/No Credit, and the No Credits don't show up on your transcript. There are no required classes, except for concentration (what other schools call major) requirements. You can create an independent concentration, and both an independent study class and a group independent study class. Plus, it's an Ivy, so you can be a total hippie, but still have some people impressed with your degree.

Warren Wilson College in Swannanoa, NC. Buncha damn hippies, some rich, some poor. Everyone has to do community work to graduate & you can create your own entire curriculum. A lot of my friends are graduates & they are all interesting people although, okay, mostly not rich.

St. John's College in NM or MA. You don't really major in anything - you get a purely classical education, including learning greek and latin.

Not Latin since the fifties, I believe. Originally, the Program included Greek (Homeric and Attic), Latin, German, and French. The workload there is huge, anyway, and that was too many languages. So not too long after the introduction of the New Program in 1939 they hemmed and hawed and eventually decided to eliminate Latin and German. Greek kicked my ass when I was there--I can't imagine Latin thrown in somewhere in the first two years, too. German in addition to French would be more manageable; but the last two years are very, very difficult in everything but Language so, really, it was too much to include German. The non-mathematically minded believe they're possibly going to go insane sometime during junior year--for those types Language with its French is a refuge.

I hear people all the time saying that there's Latin at St. John's. Every time it's mentioned here- and thereabouts by a non-Johnnie, Latin is mentioned. Nope, no Latin.

I wouldn't mind knowing Latin. But I think it was Gertrude Stein who said that Greek and Latin are wonderful languages to have learned. Attic Greek was a lot of the kind of hard work that I don't like very much.

Outside the USA, anyone?

w00t w00t Johnnies! Just had to join in the shoutout, even though I quit after the first year. Annapolis or Santa Fe, kmellis?