The churches in Canada and the United States
were still full (at least by contemporary
standards); bishops and moderators had influence in
high places; and the clergy
were the bright, affable, well - spoken and
of course (ostensibly) heterosexual young men (yes
of course, men) who had chosen
theology over law and medicine.
It may
be an arrangement that factors out different aspects
of the school's common life to the reign
of each model
of excellent schooling: the research university model may reign for faculty, for example, or for faculty in certain fields (say, church history, or biblical studies) but not in others (say, practical
theology), while paideia reigns as the model for students, or only for students with a declared vocation to ordained ministry (so that other students aspiring to graduate school
are free to attempt to meet
standards set by the research university model); or research university values may
be celebrated in relation to the school's official «academic» program, including both classroom expectations and the selection and rewarding
of faculty, while the school's extracurricular life
is shaped by commitments coming from the model provided by paideia so that, for example, common worship
is made central to their common life and a
high premium
is placed on the school
being a residential community.