Oberlin Conservatory embraces contemporary music push
The Contemporary Festival drew enthusiastic response from listeners and performers. Authors urge more modern works, noting past reliance on pre 1910 pieces, and call for broader exposure through student ensembles, faculty, and artist recitals. They cite Ravi Shankar and Varese as examples of broad audience appeal.
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Conservatory
Varese
Anthony di Bonaventura
Oberlin
Str Vinsky
WOBC
Leno Quartet
Bethany Beardsle
Ravi Shanker
A Professor for Every Pot Dorm social plan discussed
Students propose regular faculty meals in the dining hall to foster informal dialogue with professors. The program would reduce hesitation by sharing hosting duties, with potential funding from Student Council, YMCA YWCA, or the Dean of Students. Dining hall chaplains have begun planning.
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Rice
Harkness
Fallenl
Saga
Ymca-Ywca
The Kettering Curb Sparks Editorial Demand for Action
An inky editorial recalls a crash at the Kettering curb near the library and urges students to fix the hazard by any means. The piece warns of escalating protest and possible damage to nearby Carnegie Library while lampooning the plan and the era’s student unrest.
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Robin Hood
Kettering
Lenny Bruce
Guerilla Cleric Slain in Colombia
The story recounts Camilo Torres Restrepo, 37, a priest and communist, killed in a gun battle between guerrillas and police in northeastern Colombia. An ex priest who preached social revolution, he drew large student crowds at Bogota’s National University and inspired labor support before his removal from teaching two years earlier.
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New York Times
Colombia
Camilo Torres Restrepo
Camilo Torres
Father Torres
United States
Rome
National Front
National University
Bogota
Olear
Smuch
Conservatory Students React to New Constitution Proposal
Since the constitution’s publication last month many Conservatory students have not read it yet but show interest in discussion. Faculty and policy committees back the plan, while student opinion varies with some favoring closer Conservatory representation on the Senate and others worried about practice time and awareness.
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Conservatory
Salzburg
Stcents
Ttcents
Soch
Robertson Hall
College
Senate
Astate
Mass
Constaltatt
Woul
Git Board
College Studens
Howe
Collet Ant Conservatory
Eis
China and the making of a world power explained
A conference overview outlines how China shifted from the middle kingdom with tributary rules to a Western‑era power. It highlights opium trade, foreign incursions, and uprisings from 1850 onward, noting the massive toll of peasant rebellions and the evolving U S policy stance toward China.
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United States
China
South Vietnam
John G. Stoesinger
Frst
Middle Kingdom
Rexall
Drs Stoesinger
Peking
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