<p>Jonathan Edwards College dean, Mark Ryan, compiled this collection of 13 essays about Yale's residential colleges.</p>
<p>It's available free (PDF form) from this address
Ryan?s</a> Collegiate Way of Living Now Available Online</p>
<p>It's 164 pp. and I would imagine that parents and admittees may want to look it over. It's a bit heady -- but hey, you're mostly Yale aspirants. Hunt and I are both JE alums so the anecdotes specific to us (Dalai Lama's visit in 1991 and the genesis of "JE Sux") ring closer to home. </p>
<p>For the casual reader: read the forward by then Dean Brodhead and perhaps p 25, one of Dean Ryan's opening remarks, welcoming in JE freshmen.</p>