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There is, of course, a tendency by the University to retain its traditions, most of which deserve to be preserved. As Elmore puts it, Today, the principle of edu- cational community is central at Wake Forest. Students, for the most part, are required to live on campus, not simply to preserve order, but to assure the conti- guity of persons who can learn from each other. In an era of mass education when state universities feel pressured to continually ex- pand, Wake Forest is dedicated to the preservation and enlivement of a community of scholars rather than a conglomeration of stu- dents. Nevertheless, the University feels the need to liberalize aca- demically and socially. A very important part of the total edu- cation idea the university offers is, of course, social. The establish- ment of the Men ' s Residence Council and the College Union, the loosening of chaperone rules, automobile regulations and coeds ' hour restrictions, and the orderly ■a
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The principle of educa- tional community is central at Wake Forest. working of the student-adminis- § tered honor code have encouraged more responsibility for the indivi- dual student. The strengthening of dependence upon personal judgment in college is, of course, the purpose of relaxing the in loco parentis restrictions which have been carried over from earlier days. The academic tradition of Wake Forest is liberal, as any fun- damentalist will agree. But wheth- er Wake Forest is a liberal univer- sity in the modernistic sense is a moot question. Wake Forest, down to its 18th Century Geor- gian architecture, is so rooted in past that the super liberal will be hard pressed not to find some reason for disenchantment. For in some circles, the fact that Wake ' s President William Louis Poteat in- troduced the first laboratory sci- ence instruction at any Southern college, and that he fought a win- ning uphill battle to keep anti- evolution laws off the North Carolina law books may seem : ■-.,. - .■ « -• ' ; ml AV ' ; f
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