Oberlin pagoda a retired dream ends in 30,900 parts
Oberlin College once received a Golden Pavilion replica from Harvard’s Yenching Institute, built in Peking and shipped in 173 crates. Now stored in a Main Street warehouse in Oberlin, the 30,900 piece Chinese temple sits broken and largely untalked about amid campus controversy and failed plans for its use and display.
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Main St
Charles A. Masher
Oberlin
Harvard
Louis Lord
Temple
Mosher
Snend Lord
Amed
Sven Hedin
United States
Vincent Bendix
Chicago Fair
Peking
Jehol
Hedin
Ch'ien- Jung
Chicago
Bendix
South Bend
China
Land
Yenching Institute
Harvard University
Seattle Art Museum
Arizona
Shansi Memona Association
News-Tribune
Jackie
The Reporter’s Dilemma Between News and Public Image
A look at the reporter’s daily balance between accuracy and storytelling. It weighs beat journalism challenges, ethics, secrecy versus public access, and the goal of delivering fresh developments while maintaining credibility.
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Madison Ave
Hemlers
Prim News
Missionary Spanish teacher visits Puerto Rico scene and memories
Dolores Finley, a Baptist missionary and high school Spanish teacher, recounts 15 years in Venezuela starting 1937 including travel to Puerto Rico for work. She recalls a dinner where dessert featured a single stewed prune, explained by prunes costing 55 a pound in Venezuela, illustrating tougher times and cultural quirks.
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Puerto Rico
Dolores Finley
High Schoo
Venezuela
Finley
Muskingum Callege
Miss Finley a longtime missionary and educator
The article profiles Miss Finley a Baptist missionary and educator who taught Spanish in Venezuela and the United States. It traces her childhood in Elyria her early teaching career and her work with the Baptist Mid-Missions including language work in Costa Rica and Venezuela.
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Venezuela
Mid-Missiona Conference
Costa Rica
Jans Bunge
Miss Finley
Omaha Bible Institute
Wheaton College
Illinois
Spanah
Brown School For Girls
Glendora
Calif
Wheaton
Wheaton College Academy
St. Petersburg
Winl
Finley
Elyria
The
Baptist Church
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Asia
Charles J. Hostetter
Pensienka
Beat
Pabice
Inter Family
Dare
Washington
UPI
U. S. Department of Agriculture
M.der
Xtorten
Franklin School
H. K. Finley
Baptist Mid-Missions
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