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...Oberlin College (Ohio) Jerome Davis of Yale Divinity School. . D.D. Pianist Ernest Hutcheson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mus. D. Naturalist Herbert Spencer Jennings. . . Sc.D. Actress Edith Wynne Matthison . . . . . Litt.D. James Brown Scott, lawyer, peace-worker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D. President Mary Emma Woolley of Mount Holyoke College . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D...
...drove him to Denver. Two years later he was back in Ohio a well man, though to this day he has to be careful about his health. In Cleveland he got a job teaching high school history, while on the side he took his master's degree at Oberlin. His call to Western Reserve as assistant professor of political science resulted largely from his reputation for using the library. That summer he married Eve Dall (no kin to the President's son-in-law), who bore him twin sons, now aged 8. At Western Reserve he is still...
...hundred years ago last week a Vermonter named Peter Pindar Pease arrived at a wooded spot in Ohio with his wife and his oxen and his five children. He was the first settler of a 500-acre tract which had been selected for the town and college of Oberlin. Few months prior, Rev. John J. Shipherd of Elyria. Ohio and Philo P. Stewart, onetime missionary, had obtained land and, in the name of Jean Frédéric Oberlin* planned an institution designed for "the diffusion of useful science, sound morality, and pure religion." Oberlin College opened in December...
Last week began celebrations of town & gown centenaries. In Oberlin's Public Square 5,000 people watched Peter Pindar Pease (impersonated by Townsman John W. Hill) drive up with his yoke of black oxen and his wife (Ruth Pease, descendant) and his five children. Pioneer Pease gazed with feigned amazement at the modern college campus, where a replica of the original cabin had been built. Bands played. School children marched. Memorial trees were planted, in honor of the founders and of Pastor Oberlin. Virginia Richardson, 16, recited a history of Oberlin. So feelingly had she written this, winning...
...first five appointees to the new Society of Fellows. The initial group of men will form the nucleus of the "Junior Fellows" and assume their fellowships next fall. Those designated by the Corporation: Garrett Birkhoff '32 of Cambridge, John Chester Miller '30 of Tacoma, Washington, Willard Van Orman Quine, Oberlin '30, of Akron, Ohio, Burrhus Frederic Skinner, Hamilton '26, of Scranton, Pennsylvania, and Frederick Mundell Watkins '30, of Providence, Rhode Island. The three men from Harvard were graduated summa cum laude...