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...college president; Mildred chose another career. At 20, she launched into teaching: at Monticello Seminary, Godfrey, Ill., a job which her father arranged; at Francis Parker, where she taught eighth grade; at Tusculum College in Greenville, Tenn., where she arrived with her hair bobbed, shocking Tennesseans in 1923; at Oberlin, where she was dean of women; and finally to Wellesley, where she became a college president...
Negroes in Oberlin, Ohio have always had to go out of town for their professional haircuts because local barbershops barred them. Last week Oberlin College students and faculty, some of whom had let their hair grow in protest against this discrimination, were getting haircuts beside Negroes in their own cooperative shop. The barber: Jerry Mizuiri, a Nisei...
...Columbia A.M. An astute and affable patriot and educator, Dr. Meng is a descendant of China's great philosopher of democracy. Mencius (372-289 [?] B.C.). As honorary president of China Institute, the speech of acceptance at the dedication was made by famed Dr. H. H. Kung (A.B. Oberlin; A.M. Yale), Vice Premier and Finance Minister of China, 75th lineal descendant of Confucius (from K'ung Futse meaning "Master Kung...
Sixty-four hours away from Chungking, the big plane circled, set its wheels down on the Washington airport. A few moments later, out stepped China's Vice Premier, Finance Minister, chairman of the board of the Bank of China, president of the boards of Yenching University, Cheeloo University, Oberlin in China, the Chinese Industrial Cooperatives, the Confucius Society, and the Public Finance Association-all in the rotund, meditative person of H. H. ("Daddy") Kung...
East is West. On the head of the fabled Dr. Kung was the most modern of sun helmets, in his hand a folding fan. In these, as in everything else, he reflected China's blend of ricksha and airplane civilizations. Educated in the U.S. (A.B., Oberlin; M.A., Yale), a connoisseur of modernisms, he clings to the chopsticks of his ancestors, entertains New Year's guests with a stamping, lurching, conga-like version of a 14th-Century Ming dynasty dragon dance. His great power in China is built on modern chain stores, banks, cotton mills, and mining, a supermodern...