May 21, 1999
St. John's College, a Bastion of the West, Makes Room for the Classics of the East
Faculty members at St. John's College like to talk about the "great conversation" of Western civilization. It's a discussion that has unfolded over centuries: Plato speaks to Homer, Aristotle to Plato, Dante to Aquinas, Machiavelli to all of them. Since 1937, St. John's -- which has campuses here and in Annapolis, Md. -- has based its undergraduate curriculum on the works of such authors, sealing its reputation as "the great books
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