Somewhat remote in western Pennsylvania lies Grove City College, with more than two thousand students. It retains some connection with the Presbyterian Church and some reputation for conservatism. Its handsome buildings, some given by the Pew family, stand high above a little college town. This is the old pattern of liberal education in these United States.
Like nearly anybody or anything else which retains notions not invented yesterday, Grove City College is in trouble with the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare; also with Pennsylvania’s state department of public instruction. Why? Because Grove City’s president—Dr. Charles Mackenzie, the author of a book about Pascal—refuses to submit certain reports to the bureaucracy; worse still, he refuses to promise to comply in future with all directives of HEW whatever those directives may be.
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