Word: oberline
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...writing a cover story on Robert M. Hutchins (TIME, Nov. 21, 1949), then chancellor of the University of Chicago, one of the many men he interviewed was Playwright Thornton Wilder. Barton found Wilder to be one of the best authorities on Hutchins. Wilder and Hutchins first met at college (Oberlin and Yale), and Hutchins later invited Wilder to serve on his faculty at Chicago...
...After two years of Oberlin, World War I took Thornton into a coast-defense unit ("I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal"). But by that time he was a Yaleman after all. Thornton wrote for the Lit, joined the Elizabethan Club, quoted Goethe with Sophomore Robert Hutchins. Thornton's room became a salon, where he would read his plays aloud or hold forth on the gloomy beauties of George Gissing. Professor William Lyon Phelps exclaimed: "I believe he is a genius." Mr. Wilder demurred: "Oh, tut-tut-tut, Billy, you're puffing...
...late 1920's and through the '30's. Until this time, enough applications poured into Harvard, Princeton, and Yale offices from all parts of the country to keep officials sums, and satisfied. But, when excellent state universities like California and Michigan, and private institutions like Stanford and Oberlin, began to grow in academic stature, they drained off a large number of students...
...Theology of Paul Tillich, his fellow scholars have written down a sound if technical analysis of Tillich's broad and difficult religious philosophy. Oberlin's Professor Walter Marshall Horton writes: "In its main lines it is now fixed . . . Before it perishes, it will have furnished a dwelling place for multitudes of homeless modern minds, and it will have contributed to the reform of the modern Church and the reintegration of modern culture...
...finished plans for a $6,000.000 aquarium for Brooklyn's Coney Island, is working on a $1,000,000 auditorium for Ohio's Oberlin College, a $3.500,000 office for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Manhattan, and a $22 million public housing project (1,800 apartments) in Brooklyn. Near Pittsburgh's "golden triangle" stand two brand-new Harrison skyscrapers. One is a 41-story, $23 million slab sheathed in limestone and glittering stainless steel for U.S. Steel and the Mellon National Bank; the other is a 30-story office building for the Aluminum...