Logos in Savannah
The new Ralston College in Savannah is for students “are looking for a real education: serious reading of serious books, with teachers who know their stuff and care, and in fellowship with other seekers of truth, beauty, and the good life.”
While getting in is technically more competitive than getting into Harvard, “Ralston students are not there to one-up Harvard. By and large, they don’t seem to care about Harvard—at least not Harvard in its current state…they’re not looking for A’s in gut courses and a lifetime of pushing around other people’s money at Morgan Stanley…”
“Not all of Ralston’s first students want to become, much less will become, household names, but these are young people to whom we can safely entrust the hearts and minds of the next generation.”
As for the other new college coming on the scene, UATX, “both Ralston and UATX are about building better futures through attention to the past. Ralston is hoping to reestablish a tradition; UATX is hoping to forge a new one.”
Former Dean of Harvard College and Harvard computer science professor Harry Lewis is a visiting scholar at Ralston, as is HLS Professor Emeritus Alan Derschowitz.
