Tag: Oberlin College

  • Arts & Culture

    Thoreau at Walden, and at Houghton

    Harvard Professor Emeritus Lawrence Buell reflects on the lasting importance of Henry David Thoreau’s “Walden” on the 200th anniversary of the author’s birth.

    4–6 minutes
  • Arts & Culture

    A family of common zeal

    Of the many items in a new Radcliffe exhibit devoted to a family of social reformers, one in particular points to the attitudes and assumptions they repeatedly overcame. It’s a…

    3–5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    My memories of Dr. King

    Harvard Divinity School Professor Harvey Cox was a longtime friend of Civil Rights icon the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. The clergymen had similar interests and a desire for social justice and equality.

    7–11 minutes
  • Arts & Culture

    Getting students to perform

    Harvard Professor of Music Richard Wolf fell in love with the vina, a South Indian lute, while in college. Now he uses his passion for the vina and other non-Western instruments to help others learn how to play and understand music from other cultures.

    3–4 minutes