Word: oberline
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Dean Bundy and J.N. Douglas Bush, Gurney Professor of English Literature, were among seven who received honorary degrees at Commencement exercises at Oberlin College yesterday...
Differing sharply with Mrs. Harton, William E. Stevenson, President of Oberlin College, replied that co-education "is education for life." He added...
Although many Amherst students take a dim view of the anti-fraternity clause, Professor Stoke pointed out that anumber of highly successful colleges manage without them--Oberlin, for example. "We have no intention of making New College a monastery," he chuckled, "we want the students to have a good time...
...college town of Oberlin, Ohio (1950 pop. 7,062), neighbors knew Alice Cowles Little as a dear old maiden lady with a sharp memory and a penchant for collecting. Her memory, even after more than half a century, still warmly cradled the color and sound of the faraway Pacific islands that she visited as a young missionary for the Congregational Church. Her collections-sea shells, bits of pressed vegetation, samples of earth and coral-cluttered her antebellum house on Oberlin's East College Street, where she lived quietly the last 50 years...
Last week Alice Cowles Little died at 93. And in the midst of the sea shells and pressed plants and a vast collection of postage stamps, friends found a well-creased, patently cherished letter from Naval Intelligence thanking the little old lady from Oberlin for her role in the successful wartime invasions of the islands Tarawa, Makin and Kwajalein...