Word: oberline
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...attention than anthropology, no more than chess. In neolithic days Chicago became the dummy of the Big Ten. For three years it has failed to win a football game from any of its Conference opponents. This year the once mighty Maroons won two of eight games (against minor-league Oberlin and Wabash), had 308 points scored against them...
...author of Carry Me Back to Old Virginny was a native of Flushing, L. I. The son of one of the first U. S. Negro college graduates (Oberlin '45), Bland himself attended Washington's Howard University. Handsome and honey-voiced, he could not stay away from music. Because white men in blackface hogged the field of U. S. minstrel shows, Bland did not get very far in his U. S. minstrel career. In London, however, where he went as end man with Billy Kersands' Minstrel Troupe, he made a big hit, earned $10,000 a year...
...group at Columbia University's Teachers College, led by venerable Progressive Samuel Ralph Powers, began a campaign to reform U. S. science teaching. They published the first of a series of Rockefeller-financed books intended to make Science more sense-making to students: Life and Environment, by Oberlin College's famed Botanist Paul Bigelow Sears...
...will be a man. Wellesley's girls are proud of woman's intellectual stature, of their comely campus on a lake, and of their young woman president, Mildred Helen McAfee, 39. Missouri-born and Vassar-educated, Miss McAfee taught in progressive schools, was dean of women at Oberlin before she became Wellesley's president in 1936. Tall, athletic, curly-haired, President McAfee likes to write detective stories in her spare time...
...History at Harvard, of Cambridge, Mass.; Hans W. Gatzke 1G, of Krefold, Germany; James E. Gunckel, Oxford, O., now graduate student at Miami University; Ralph S. Henderson now teaching at MacJannet Country Day School, St. Cloud, France; Henry R. Hope 1G, of Darien, Conn.; Andrew O. Jaszi 1G, of Oberlin, O.; Milan W. Jerabek, of Minneapolis, Minn., now teaching at University of Minnesota; Jean E. Jones, 1G, of Wichita, Kans...