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| | The New York Review of Books: Colleges: An Endangered Species? |
 | | Starting a decade later, the Ivies did their part by establishing "need-blind admissions" and "need-based financial aid"—by which they promised to accept qualified applicants regardless of their ability to pay, and to help support needy matriculants by assessing family assets and making up with scholarship aid whatever the family could not afford. |
 | | By 1960, the University of California at Berkeley was challenging Harvard in accomplishment and prestige, and the "flagship" branches of other state universities such as Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, and, more recently, Texas and North Carolina joined the ranks of the world's leading institutions. |
 | | Liberal arts colleges are customarily defined as moderately selective, with most if not all students living on campus, and at least 40 percent majoring in some liberal subject such as English, foreign languages, biological sciences or physics, mathematics, philosophy, religion, psychology, social science, visual or performing arts, or ethnic studies. |
| www.nybooks.com /articles/17777 (2744 words) |
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