Word: oberlin
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...Council in New York, held no beliefs that would prevent their switching to some other Protestant denomination. Despite this evidence of doctrinal tolerance, church merger negotiations in the U.S. are being quietly balked. At least some of the opposition to church union, argues Methodist Theologian J. Robert Nelson of Oberlin College in the current Theology Today, is so "arbitrary and irresponsible" that he satirically wonders if some Dark Unseen Presence might be behind it. With a bow to C. S. Lewis' Screwtape Letters, Nelson suggests seven ways that the Devil might have devised to block the road to union...
...Antioch (Ohio), Bennington (Vt.), Bryn Mawr (Pa.), Goddard (Vt.), Oberlin (Ohio), Reed (Ore.), Sarah Lawrence (N.Y.), Swarthmore (Pa.), Vassar (N.Y.) and Wesleyan University (Conn...
...than social. (With girls' schools these are more easily distinguished than with boys'.) And it is useful to have lived in a college town, a foreign country, or a sophisticated urban community; to have applied to a very small number of progressive and stiff colleges, like Swarthmore, Sarah Lawrence, Oberlin, and so forth...
...dozen school systems around Boston. The idea reunited Harvard's once warring education professors and scholars of arts and sciences. Now they run the program together, with public schools happily joining in. The plan has spread to many other campuses, among them Yale, Chicago, Duke, Emory, Oberlin, Reed and Stanford. But it is still surging strongest at Harvard's famed and thriving education school...
Today, accordingto Sizer's report, the M.A.T. degree is "well established in American academia." Similar ventures have been established by Yale, Chicago Stanford, Johns Hopkins, Oberlin, and Wesleyan...