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...average academic year of 19 schools surveyed had decreased 5.3%. Four of the 19 schools had increased the number of teaching days as much as 4%, but this was more than offset by decreases in school days at the University of Pennsylvania (8.3%), Oberlin and N.Y.U. (11%) and Princeton (17.9%). How can teaching days have decreased in the decades of the information explosion? DAVID BAMBERGER Cleveland, Ohio...
...long-haired, unadorned look of a college student and a precise but passionate way of describing her work that recalls your favorite professor, started acting at the age of 11, studied mime in Paris and worked in theater while majoring in mythology and folklore at Oberlin College. Her theatrical vision was shaped most decisively by a four-year stay in Indonesia, where she absorbed a whole non-Western ethic of theater. "I was so inspired by being in a culture where theater was the fundamental form of communication," she says. "In Bali, ritual performances are as important as going...
...didn't have cheerleaders or a homecoming parade and dance. Our football team was laughable. And many of our liberal teachers preached an anti-establishment rhetoric acquired from their days as tie-dye T-shirted Oberlin students in the 1960s...
Quine, who graduated from Oberlin College in 1930, received his master's degree and his doctorate from Harvard...
Deciding to leave the narrow study of music, Capello applied as a transfer student to Oberlin, Swarthmore, Harvard and Yale in the summer after his sophomore year. He was admitted only to Oberlin's conservatory. Asking the other schools for suggestions about improving his chances for admission, he received terse written replies from Swarthmore and Yale. But from Harvard, he received an hour-long telephone call from Rosemary Green, director of transfer admissions. Green encouraged Capello to broaden his transcript with more liberal arts courses, and spoke with him at length about admissions procedures. "I felt encouraged after that phone...