Whenever I travel, faculty and staff are the people alumni ask for . . . Other alumni have an acute sense of place, a feel for the campus and its environs. Still others remember fellow students with whom they spent a great deal of time and with whom they continue to stay in touch after many years. These strands of recollection and memory ultimately come together, and are held together, in a set of deeply shared values. These values begin with respect and appreciation for a rigorous liberal arts education.
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Rigor is valued for its own sake at times, but more often it is valued because it caused young men to stretch in new ways and prepared them for a lifetime of stretching. Also present is the recognition of the joys that a liberal arts education brings. Our alumni read . . . Independence is another value that, ironically, ties Wabash together. Wabash men take as much pride in their own independent thinking as they do in the College's remaining independent, avoiding entanglements with church and government.