"The Shimer College I attended no longer exists and yet is eternally present in this moment (as T.S. Eliot said — he, …"

"At Shimer we paid no attention to disciplinary boundaries; we blithely followed problems wherever they led. For bette…"

"We do not think that any of our Seminaries can boast of a more laborious and self-sacrificing band of instructors."

"While memories of my youth and that of my contemporaries will always be of the Mount Carroll campus, the essence is i…"

""Let's look at the bottom of 64," she says, and it suddenly strikes me that everybody is. No one is staring into spac…"

"Walk into a class at Shimer — with students talking earnestly, sometimes painfully, about the meaning of a classic — …"

"It is understood that, in an important sense, the text is the teacher, and thus the faculty member's role is to facil…"

"Both students and faculty agree. There is nowhere else for them to go."

"But it wasn’t so long before I discovered three things. First, the graduate students I was with were not as smart, on…"

"Shimer wears a mask of nodding tranquility but plays devil's advocate to the Big Ten and the Ivy League."