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...task only begun the Wellesley College president brought a sense of humor which had become legend in more than two decades of educational work. As dean of women at Oberlin College (Ohio), her post before she went to Wellesley, she had to enforce a rule that women students must not leave town without permission. One day she spied six Oberlin undergraduates-three men, three women-standing on the outskirts of town trying to thumb a ride. "Hop in, boys," she called, stopping her car. "I'm sorry I can't take you girls along too-but you know...
Born in Japan of missionary parents, Dr. Reischauer came to Harvard as a graduate of Oberlin College. Two years of intensive study in the history of Far Eastern languages won him a Fellowship from the Harvard Yenching Institute, and the opportunity for further research in Paris, Tokyo, and Peking. It was during this period that he accumulated the bulk of his truly gargantuan store of knowledge, not of Far Eastern history alone, but also of the dark and tortuous workings of the Oriental mind. At the same time, the student of history had a unique opportunity of watching history...
Washington had better luck than California. Sixteen colleges and universities (among them Chicago, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio State, Iowa State, Oberlin) agreed to give haven to Washington's Nisei. Of the 32 queried by Dr. Sproul, 14 replied they were "interested" (the rest said No or were noncommittal). And when Dr. Sproul announced the names of the 14, the outcry from their States was so fierce that three (Idaho, Kansas, Arkansas A. & M.) quickly changed their minds...
...Richard R. Baxter, of New York, N. Y., candidate for A.B. Brown '42; Albert I. DaSilva, of Freeport, N. Y., candidate for A.B. New York University '42; Jerome Kinkelstein, of Jacksonville, Fla., candidate for A.B. Indiana University '42; Jacob H. Martin, of Blowing Rock, N. C., candidate for A.B. Oberlin '42; and Edgar J. Masters, of Lowellville, Ohio, candidate for A.B. Ohio University...
...proponent of melodrama in the local room, City Editor Shaw (a graduate summa cum laude of Oberlin, and son of the Plain Dealer's longtime chief editorial writer Archer Shaw) gags when he hears about The Front Page brand of city editor. He made his reputation as a City Hall reporter who had a great knack for making interesting sense of municipal affairs...