Unlike our last visit with a panel of students (#S842), which yielded, as the

deepest concern of today's students, "Tuition increase," these three brand-new graduates

talk about things like "the social, moral, and spiritual implications of what a liberal-arts

education means" (Mr. Duncan) and the perception that "after four years of reading

Hegel and Kant and Flannery O'Connor and talking about them," a quite "ordinary group

of students" had become "an extraordinary group of people in their interests and in their

ability to carry on a conversation" (Mr. Seidman). And Miss Hamrick, a la Mortimer

Adler, reminds us that "the mission of a liberal-arts school is not to fill someone's head

up with all the knowledge that is there; it's to instill a thirst for knowledge and the

techniques of learning." A refreshing session indeed with three products of modern

liberal education.