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Oh Heigh Oh, or A View Of The Back Settlements, printed in 1776. Part of a series of satirical prints that were published in London poking fun at English ladies all too eager to follow the fashion example set by their French counterparts. (Ohio, which is alluded to in the title, was part of New France at the time.) An original was on display at the AMAM before I graduated…I got some funny stares for laughing too loudly.
For more prints, see Waiter, There’s Hair In My Satire over on BibliOdyssey
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KF alerted me to the existence of this—during senior week, we stole the Classics department’s bust of Homer and took it to different places on campus and photographed it. Afterwards, we made a photo album of it and gave it to our professors (who didn’t even notice Homer was gone, by the way).
They have since put it up on the home page of Oberlin College’s Classics department.
So I present to you, Homer’s Odyssey.
Oberlin College was founded in Ohio on this day in 1883. It was the first college to enroll men and women on equal terms, and to accept African-American men and women on equal terms with white students.
Yay!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, OBERLIN!
It’s Oberlin College’s birthday! We’re 176 years old today.
(If you’re in town, there’s music and cake at Wilder.)
D.R.E.A.M. Act 101/Know Your Rights Workshop
Know Your Rights Workshop
Thurs Dec 3, 4:30 PM
Wilder 115
Do you know about the D.R.E.A.M. Act and what it means for students in America? Do you know your rights? Attend this student-run workshop and learn not only about the D.R.E.A.M. Act, but also the complications and implications of being an immigrant student in the US.The workshop and information session will be led by Viviana Gentry
Goodbye Allen!
“Allen After Hours”
Tuesday, December 1 - 7:00pm until 9:30 pm
On Tuesday, December 1, the Allen Memorial Art Museum will open its doors for a special evening event – one of the last chances Oberlin College students will have to explore the collection before the museum closes for a sixteen-month renovation project.
This semester’s “Allen After Hours” will take place from 7:00 to 9:30pm, and will feature food, games, door prizes, and the launch of the museum’s audio tour! Student docents will be on hand to discuss and explain the many aspects of the museum’s renowned collection. Museum staff will answer questions about renovation activities and talk about how the museum’s involvement with the campus will continue throughout the project period (and, yes, Art Rental will continue!).
How to Grow a Band From the Ground
Oberlin blog post about the wonders of Winter Term.
Cincinnati had racist pogroms and very contradictory loyalties during the war; folks with strong business ties to the south and those with strong business ties to the east as well as newly arrived German catholic immigrants, the natural base of the Democratic Party along with a population whetted to the free labor ethos of those pushing west. The city still has one foot firmly in the South and has a history of unofficial Jim Crowism that has yet to fully die. Ohio certainly did have a proud history of abolitionism, especially in the northeast, and conspirators of liberty were active throughout the state with the river, the border, being a central focus. The fact that militant abolitionists were organizing in the area brought plenty of slave-catchers before the war and raids during the war. Oberlin, Ohio was famous for resisting slave catchers and providing John Brown, a sometime Ohio resident, with recruits for the Harper’s Ferry raid. ” - Down The Ohio (via anthropophagous)
Open Access
Oberlin adopts Open Access [disseminate research widely - good for world]!
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