Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It was discovered in Baltimore 20 years ago.
It seems to be a very white bread, southern-fried enrollment.
I went to another southern private, so I know the type.
The kids probably never went to school with any POC, or jewish people.
They would stick out in an urbane environment.
Amen to the tome of typos reply! The OP must have been raised in the "luxuriant," overwhelmingly ignorant and undereducated Baltimore school system themself.
The fact that you. Mr. ignorant OP, were apparently apprised about Sewanee 20 years ago has nothing whatsoever to do with when Sewanee was first recognized as an ivy league institution. And, the fact you "went to another Southern private" taught you absolutely nothing about what school life at Sewanee is truly like. If anything, your comments are, as a result of having matriculated to an entirely unrelated University, descriptive only of YOUR experiences at YOUR University, and speak to where YOU went to college, not Sewanee--a University at which it appears you neither ever set foot on nor audited a single class.
Your comments make clear you have no right whatsoever to speak to what a Sewanee degree gets you. They teach us nothing, as your comments make so elegantly clear, you went to an entirely different University and are comparing Sewanee to it. Your comments actually reveal YOUR experiences in YOUR institution of higher learning--not Sewanee. Both being located in the South is transparently irrelevant. It's like saying, "I went to college at Fairfield Community College, so I know what school life at Harvard and Yale are like as all three are located in the Northeast." What hubris!
Speaking of which, you might want to go back to your Middle School English 101 class again, as you took little-to-nothing about the nuances of the English language away from it the first go round.
Ground for the University of the South (aka Sewanee) was first broken in the 1850s. Being run by the Episcopalian Protestant church meant that there was now a University for the wealthy and the poor "urbane" [sic] but all very well-educated--high school graduates in a Southern ivy league institution more than capable of competing for--and succeeding in--attracting it's own share of the best and the brightest HS grads country-wide, and world-wide.
Yes. I matriculated to Sewanee in 1974. There were plenty of POC, Jewish, a small but closely-knit group of Asians and only two Middle Easterners whom I recall. Sewanee had opted to go Coed, opening their doors to both girls as well as boys in 1970. Hence, many teachers still there were gay, along with many new students. Sewanee was about as "all inclusive" as you could get at that time period.
Sure, there were a lot of Good Old Boys from the South there, but never any attacks, or rioting like there was in my high school when busing started. And, they were there because they were extremely bright, as were most other students, male and female alike. By design and intent, the student body was small--approx. 1,200 during the years I was there. It still stands at around 1,600 today, again by intent--NOT lack of applicants.
Sewanee wasn't "discovered" in Baltimore 20 years ago, in terms of the brick and mortar or its reputation. So, the OP is both wrong, AND very undereducated. The OP may have become aware of it 20 years ago, but it sure as hell wasn't "discovered" in Baltimore 20 years ago--where the OP most likely lives or grew up. And if so, then he would know Baltimore was a slum city up until about 20 years ago, and was largely still a festering wound in Maryland's arse until more affluent Millennials began to gentrify the central city.
Prior to that, Baltimore was a rotting, "zombie-infested" slum, with sewage pipes built above fresh water pipes that began crumbling, allowing raw sewage to seep into the "fresh" water pipes (ewwww! 😱). Baltimore is a lonnnnng way away from joining the ranks of far more more progressive, modern cities like Atlanta. Austin. TX, and Charlotte, S C.
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