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Small colleges were also known for a variety of curricular experiments during the 1930s. Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, offered students a startling range of curricular choice and instructional freedom. Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, offered a distinctive blend of liberal-arts education and vocational instruction, alternating between classroom instruction and work internships. Reed College in Portland, Oregon, had already established a reputation for academic seriousness and excellence by the 1930s. Reed was highly selective in its admissions of students, abolished fraternities and sororities, allowed unprecedented participation of the faculty in university administration, imposed rigorous examinations on its students, and refused to field competitive athletic teams. Under President Frank Aydelotte, Swarthmore College near Philadelphia went from a local institution noted for its football program to a national institution respected for its honors program. The Swarthmore honors program set high academic standards that were...
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