non-profit organization modeled after the book now carries the name. The fourth edition profiles 40 choices for liberal arts colleges that "have one primary mission: educate the undergraduate. Each appeals to a slightly different type of teenager, but they all share a mission to raise students' trajectories and develop thinkers, leaders, and moral citizens. The little-known truth is that these colleges have been on the cutting edge of higher education for decades. Many of them have outperformed most of the ranking sweethearts in the percentages of graduates who become America's scientists and scholars." References External links Loren Pope, 98, journalist and education consultant - Boston Globe Obituary 1910 births 2008 deaths American male journalists DePauw University alumni Writers from Minneapolis Writers from Virginia 20th-century American journalists The New York Times people