I'm working on a neuroscience/politics double major at Bates College in Lewiston, ME. Though the location isn't great (minus some spectacular Indian food locally), I love our campus. The school is fairly small, at ~2000 students, so you can get really close with your professors and have a lot of access to helping out with their research. As a senior next year, I'll also be writing two theses (one for each major) where I will work on independent research. I think the only thing I would change about Bates is their major + 2 system, because the clusters of classes (generally 4 per concentration) you have to choose from to take with your major don't always make a lot of sense. There might be a "law and society concentration" with politics and philosophy classes, for example, but no basic "politics". A year also isn't a very long time to expect us to be able to do a lot of coherent research. The teaching faculty is phenomenal, though, and our deans tend to be incredibly helpful. The student body seems really well-educated and you can hold an intelligent conversation with just about anyone there (though there's also an air of elitism about the student body).

Has any one been able to find reactions from the 1900s to this article. I've been doing some searching myself (no luck yet), but think it would be interesting to see how it was received at the time.