I sent my oldest daughter to Thomas Moore College in Nashua NH. It was the same sort of school as Hillsdale but deeply Catholic and there was visiting back and forth. Daughter and two colleagues visited with Russell Kirk at the Hillsdale Campus. MIL kvetched for 4 years that no one ever heard of Thomas More and she would never get accepted to a grad school. She went from TM to LSU for her MBA and the registrar clerk had, indeed, never heard of the place. Daughter seemed to be pretty familiar with history and philosophy and had Greek and Latin so the registrar asked for phone numbers. Next day the clerk jokingly asked daughter where she wanted her reserved parking space.
I had hte privilege of getting to know Dr. Kirk while I was there, and he is perhaps the most brilliant person I have had the honor of knowing.