January 8, 1999

Liberal Arts at Public Colleges

To the Editor:

As your article in the November 20 issue states, St. Mary's College of Maryland does indeed have a well-deserved elite academic reputation ("Unusual Autonomy and Unique Budget Law Help St. Mary's College to Stand Apart"). While your story focused on the college's unusual governance structure as one explanation for that, I would suggest that a large part of its reputation rests on a commitment to

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