<p>Wesleyan has been setting the standard for liberal, progressive small colleges for over half a century: </p>
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<p>I would say that most, if not all, of its peer colleges in the New England area have made advances in Wesleyan’s direction, particularly in the last twenty years or so. In Bowdoin’s case, as in Wesleyan’s, it has not been without a certain amount of dissent:</p>
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