The History and Operation of Cedarville College

12 at least, they are set up to do one thing which they claim to be their purpose. Results. Professors Robert H, Knapp and H. B, Goodrich, of Wesleyan University, after making a study of colleges, state that "of the colleges which have per capita, made the greatest contribution to science, thirty-nine out of the top fifty institutions ;:/those with inde- pendent boards and support usually comparatively small, and with a Christian emphasis, Excellence was shown to have emerged in unsus– pected ways. 11 4 Many men and women who have accomplished great things for their country and built reputations for themselves have been graduates of the small independent college. National in Character. The small college is more likely to draw students from all parts of the nation than will the State-controlled university. In the larger and older independent schools it is not unusual to find representatives from every State in the Union. Though Cedarville College has been operating since 1953 as a Baptist institu- tion, already we have representatives from eighteen states and one foreign country. This is due to the fact that the churches from which these young people come are located all across the country. As the school is better known, students will be coming from other areas in our nation. In this manner, Cedarville College will have an oppor - tuni ty to send its graduates back to their home towns and in other parts 4 Elton Trueblood The Idea of a College, (Parker Brothers Publishing Company, 1959), p. 10.