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.

    5 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…

    4 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.

    9 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.

    4 minutes