[1] Provost Martin brought the perspective that President Burns had most wanted for the school, emphasizing the importance of the liberal arts and the preparation of the whole student for a fulfilling, engaged life.

[5] The curricular demands were intense, with heavy reading and writing loads; dropout rates during these early years of Raymond college were high.

A new provost, Berndt Kolker, was selected to lead the college starting in the 66-67 academic year and began to re-envision the curriculum.

[4] Raymond College responded by shifting to the same academic calendar as the College of the Pacific, with a fall semester, a January month-long winter term (offering accelerated classes, study abroad, or independent study opportunities), and a spring semester.

In an effort to increase appeal, they began to offer traditional grades for those students who wanted them for graduate school, though term letters remained the norm.

Alumni of Raymond College went on to work in an exceptionally wide variety of careers, from hard sciences to business to policy to law to teaching, utilizing their broad education across different disciplines.

Raymond College held weekly High Table sessions, which were inspired by the Oxford-Cambridge model that President Burns had worked to incorporate.

[1] Each High Table would include a formal dinner and a presentation from that week's speaker, followed by discussion in the Raymond Common Room (a central gathering space.)

While this restriction did loosen, joining Greek life and/or competitive athletics were consistently deemphasized throughout the Raymond years.

This drew a distinction between Raymond and the university at large, which was dominated by a football-oriented culture and an active social Greek life.

Raymond alumni often refer to this as the Eucalyptus Curtain, drawing a parallel between the row of trees separating the schools and the differences in perspective between them.

"[4] This meant strict curfews for women, following the dominant in loco parentis idea that defined many colleges in the fifties and allowed them to assume responsibility for 'protecting' their female students.

[4] That began to change with the arrival of Berndt Kolker and the subsequent exit of the conservative Dean of Student Life, Edmund Peckham.

[4][16] Co-ed residential halls appeared, dress codes eased, and curfews disappeared as students were given more autonomy to decide how to regulate themselves.

In addition, alcohol and marijuana usage began to increase as Raymond College transformed into a school that, while nevertheless remaining academically rigorous, was firmly embedded in the counterculture movements of the time.