Shimer College
Shimer College was founded in 1853 in Mount Carroll, Illinois by Francis Wood Shimer[?] as a non-denominational co-educational seminary. Shimer became formally affiliated with the University of Chicago in 1895 and adopted the Chicago "Hutchins Plan" in 1950. Despite the very traditional Hutchins curriculum, Shimer developed a reputation as a counterculture mecca in the 1960s and 1970s. Mounting debts forced the college to leave its Mount Carroll campus and move to the Chicago suburb of Waukegan, Illinois.Shimer continues to use the Hutchins Plan, which relies on close readings of original sources and disdains textbooks, as the basis for its curriculum, and is considered to be one of a very small number of "Great Books" colleges--most notable among them St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland. Shimer College is also notable for its extremely small size--with fewer than 150 students, Shimer is one of the smallest liberal arts colleges in the United States.
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But little has been written of the child-life of John Adams, the second
patriot of the noblest order.
The Adamses were an honest, faithful people. They were not rich, neither
comfort. Stern integrity was the predominant quality of the farmer's
throughout his life it was the sturdy qualities of his ancestors that
doors among the birds and the squirrels, roaming the woods,--living just
entered Harvard College when he was sixteen years old. It is curious to
and John Adams was the fourteenth in his class. In college he was noted
the sturdy line of farmers had handed down to their children.
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money to aid him in studying his profession, and the training was
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years old. The British government imposed taxes and searched for goods
Superior Court. James Otis argued the cause of the merchants; and John
"Otis was a flame of fire.... American independence was then and there
indignation at the injustice. He drew up a set of resolutions,
of Braintree, but by those of more than forty other towns in
Courts were closed, and the excitement was intense. John Adams.
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