Foreword / Martha C. Nussbaum
Preface : from rhetoric to reality / Michael Nelson
Alive at the core : programs and issues / Michael Nelson
The humanities in the core curriculum at Columbia College / James V. Mirollo
Freedom and wholeness at St. John's College / Mera J. Flaumenhaft
The search course at Rhodes College / Michael Nelson
The core curriculum at Eckerd College / Lloyd W. Chapin
The humanities program at Davidson College / Brian J. Shaw
The experimental college program at Berkeley / Katherine Trow
The heritage program at Millsaps College / W. Charles Sallis
The humanities program at the University of North Carolina at Asheville / Margaret J. Downes
The foundation year programme at King's College / Margaret Heller
The intellectual heritage program at Temple University / Stephen Zelnick
Tradition and criticism in western culture at the University of the South / W. Brown Patterson
Western intellectual traditions at Hendrix College / John Churchill
The area one program at Stanford University / Harry J. Elam, Jr., Cheri Ross.