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Show 1 ootora MGdd 35 Tradition and learning blend on Tennessee's Sewanee mountaintop school's official name is the of the South, but it's kr own an.org as Sewanee. The nickname has nothing to do with the 5war.ee River celebrated by Stephen Foster and A! Joison: mounrather, it represents the 2.0QO-foo- i tain in rural Tennessee on which the college stands and the community that grew around it. The university literally owns the town as well as a splendid 10.OOO-acr- e domain of forest, lakes, blurs, waterfalls and trails. In spring ccgwoods ruffe the campus in pink and white: in the fall trees blaze poplars, maples and black-guand red. yellow, orange deep With its Gothic spires often wreathed in fog. Sewanee looks more like Oxford than any university in or of the South. The resemblance is intentional. Founded by the Episcopal Church in 1S57. then destroyed during the Civil War. the school was reopened after Tennessee Bishop Charles Quirtard raised funds in England, and Oxford and Cambridge donated 1.500 books. Sewar.ee has maintained a prideful English heritage ever since. Here is preserved the Oxonian tradition of the Order of Gownsmen: 20 percent of the nearly 1.10O undergraduates earn grades high enough for membership, which entitles them to wear academic gowns to class, take unlimited class cuts and enjoy first priority in housing and registration. Sewanee also preserves the "Matron System." in which an older woman presides over each dorm, and a haphazardly enforced dress code that requires women to wear skirts and men to wear ties to class. No Berts: The most notable of Sewaree"s traditions are academic. It strictly enforces an honor code. Its graduate school of theology has trained 11 percent of the Episcopal clergy in the nation. The undergraduate college of liberal arts has produced 21 Rhodes scholars and such alumni as White House chief of star Howard Baker. "There's a lot of support for doing your work here." says senior English major Jenifer Bobo. editor of the student newspaper. "You're not a nerd if you do well." The most popular major at Sewanee is English, not surprising for the home of the Sewanee Review, the nation's oldest 'iter an' :uarterlv. Circu ated in 65 countries. IPS The ji II 'J i) fill ' V)J a 1 iJ w ii m 16 N E rv 5 '.V Z E X 0N CA M PHOTOS BY WILLIAM STRODE J a f 1 "I V 'J- it - - 1 4 7 . - kmfik fa r i II ' 1 Prideful English heritage: All Saints I u Ch d beckons beyond the classroom, outing hib ?V5 OCTOBER l - f v . - - |