Download or read book The Essential College written by Bruce Haywood and published by XOXOX Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural Writing. Memoir. THE ESSENTIAL COLLEGE, by Bruce Haywood is at once an affectionate memoir, an eloquent sermon, and an incisive lament on the larger question of liberal education. Haywood, who spent twenty-six years at Kenyon College, half of them as provost, provides a portrait of a small and sociable intellectual community that saved itself from financial ruin by expanding and by embracing coeducation. "Liberal education is vital to the future of the Republic. The essential college, its future now threatened, has inspired many generations of Americans to seek a purposeful life, rewarding to themselves and to their society."