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...judgment that ministers should be men led America's early universities, which were essentially seminaries, to refuse admission to girls. Coeducation did not start until 1837, when Oberlin let some women in. By the turn of the century, Columbia's President Nicholas Murray Butler thought the battle for coeducation had been fought and won: "The American people have settled the matter. Why discuss it further...
...whites and Negroes to join in rebuilding the 42 Negro churches bombed and burned in Mississippi. By year's end the committee had collected $50,000, much of it from within the state. Help came in other ways too. A group of students, mostly from Ohio's Oberlin College, arrived to help rebuild the Antioch Baptist Church near Ripley. Other students from as far away as Pennsylvania and California showed up in other towns to work with local volunteers, both white and Negro. Some local contractors donated materials. By last week, six Negro churches had been completely rebuilt...
...civil rights workers I've seen here in Georgia sure don't look like the clean-cut American kids that the national press pictures them as being. Why don't they teach them how to bathe and dress at Oberlin...
...imitate nature. "I use visual activities," says Stanczak, "to run parallel to it" (right). There is even a U.S. group, impersonally called Anonima. Composed of three young men, Francis Hewitt (below), Edwin Mieczkowski (next page) and Ernst Benkert, who met at the Carnegie Institute of Technology and Oberlin College in 1958 and '59, they believe that the rule and the compass are proper artist's tools. Like other op artists, they dislike artistic preciousness, the expression of the prima donna personality on canvas, and psychic plumbing into the meaning of art. They also hold, says Hewitt, that...
...young friend Walton, into the mouth of a mask painted on the curtain hiding her from view. Public and critics alike pronounced the evening an outrage. But the musical "entertainment" has been revived again and again, currently in this recording by Actress Hermione Gingold and Countertenor Russell Oberlin, with Thomas Dunn conducting the small chamber ensemble. Unfortunately for them, Dame Edith herself, with Peter Pears, has performed the work for London Records. Where Gingold dramatizes the poems, Sitwell chants her surrealistic lines like a hypnotist, sometimes at breakneck speed. "We sought to reach a country between music and poetry, like...