@Zoom10 and @Mwfan1921 , you didn’t quite get the point of my reference to Reed and St. John’s. Cue had thrown them in our face as being true idiosyncratic schools as compared with Chicago. I was not accepting that rhetorical ploy on his part. l respect both of them, but I don’t hold them up as being other than what they are - tiny pure kingdoms with a very limited appeal. Interestingly, a fellow named Stringfellow Barr was brought to Chicago by Hutchins to create something like a St. John’s great books program. He ran into such resistance from the faculty that he decamped after a couple of years for St. John’s itself. From there he invited Hutchins to join him and become President of the College. Hutchins declined. The place was too pure even for him.
@Cue7 , pardon me if I say that you sound like you were one of the “not-signed-on” of your day. Have never heard you say anything about courses or profs, or even your concentration, though much about the misery you endured. You stuck it out, l’ll give you credit for that, and in your way you have stayed engaged. But your perspective is skewed.