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Haskell lectures to celebrate 75th anniversary by Grover A. Zinn Professor David Noel Freedman of the University of Michigan is this year's Haskell lecturer. He will speak Tuesday and Thursday at 8:30 pm in King 106 on "The Law and the Prophets: Formation and Transformation of the Hebrew Scriptures." In addition, Joseph M. Kitagawa of the University of Chicago will give a seventy-fifth anniversary lecture this Sunday, same time and place, entitled, "The Parliament of Re¬ ligions, the Haskell Lectures and the Study of Religion." A reception honor¬ ing both speakers follows this lecture. Bequest The Haskell lectures at Oberlin Col¬ lege were established by a generous bequest by Caroline B. Haskell of Mich¬ igan City, Indiana. In her will, she designated that the lectureship should be concerned with Oriental literature in its relation to the Bible and Christian literature. From its beginning in 1908 the lectureship was entrusted to the faculty of the Graduate School of The¬ ology and, after the merger with the Divinity School of Vanderbilt Univer¬ sity, to the general faculty of Oberlin College. The first Haskell lectures were given in May 1908 by Professor James Frederick McCurdy of the University of Toronto on the topic, "The Bible and the Ancient World." Mrs. Haskell was a close friend of Oberlin's fifth president, John Henry Barrows, who had been pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Chicago before his election to the Oberlin pres¬ idency in 1898. Like Barrows, she was very interested in eastern religions and the spread of Christianity in Asia. The Haskell lectures at Oberlin are tangible evidence of her interest in having the religions of the Bible understood in the light of the wider religious and cultural context of the ancient and eastern worlds. In 1893 Barrows had organized and served as president of the World's Parliament of Religions in Chicago, and in 1897 he traveled to India to deliver a course of lectures on the Chris¬ tian religion. Outstanding scholars During the past seventy-five years, the Haskell lectures have brought to Oberlin many of the world's outstand¬ ing scholars in the field of religion. Early lecturers included George Foot Moore, Friedrich A. Loofs (whose per¬ sonal library in now part of the Oberlin College library), Kirsopp Lake, Rudolf Otto (on mysticism east and west), B. H. Streeter, and Sir Leonard Woolley (speaking on his discoveries at Ur). More recent lecturers have included G. Ernest Wright, Giinther Bornkamm, Yigael Yadin, Dame Kathleen Kenyon, and Paolo Matthiae (on the discoveries at Ebla). Next week a special exhibition of published Haskell lectures and of other books by the lecturers will be on display in the Goodrich Room, Mudd Library. Grover Zinn is professor of religion and chair of the Haskell lectureship committee. To mark the fiftieth anniversary of Charles Martin Hall's discovery of an inexpensive method of extracting aluminum, three Oberlin students held an aluminum bell on 23 February 1936 while Professor Harry N. Holmes rang it. The following year one of the students was replaced by a new member of the faculty, Werner H. Bromund, now emeritus professor of chemistry. Touring performers learn while helping Oberlin "Performing a piece over and over, we had to look for a new thing each time to keep the music alive for ourselves and for the audience," said violinist Laura McGinnis, who is one of ten student musicians who spent winter term tour¬ ing in one of the "Music from Oberlin" groups. "It was a rare opportunity for college students to work on the road," said Jef¬ frey Goldwasser, student tour manager for the... hot ice and wondrous strange snow... company, a group of six actors who also toured during January. Ro¬ berta Rude, assistant professor of the¬ ater, agreed that the "challenge-of an extended run," is rare and valuable for college students. "They had to deal with the unexpected," she said, and to "learn how to work out the conflicts" that are inevitable among people so closely asso¬ ciated for several weeks. No faculty or stall traveled with the students on these tours, but several were involved in the advance planning: The touring actors performed a fifty-minute version of .. hot ice... for high school students who were studying Shake¬ speare. They had worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company actors last fall on a different and longer version and with Rude, who directed the produc¬ tions of both versions. Rude also pre¬ pared a study guide for teachers of the high school audience. The musicians were approved for "Music from Ober¬ lin" tours by some of the conservatory faculty and by Henry Duckham, direc¬ tor of external affairs for the conserva¬ tory. Performers were chosen not only for their talent but also for their ability to talk to high school students and local television interviewers. The tour groups visited "target" schools selected by both the conserva¬ tory and college admissions staff. Mc¬ Ginnis was part of a quartet, which also included pianist Frank Corliss, cellist Paul Kushious, and clarinetist Eleanor Weingartner, that visited high schools in San Diego, Los Angeles, San Fran¬ cisco, and Denver. It performed infor¬ mally about twenty-five times, inter¬ rupting the music to discuss it and its instrumentation with the high school audiences. In addition, it gave five for¬ mal concerts. Despite the intense pace, McGinnis said, "there was always more energy to perform, especially in the formal concerts. After the high school assemblies, it was a treat to sit down and play whole movements." East coast Two trios toured the east coast: Tim Mikesell, piano, Katherine Harris, voice, and Julie Leven, violin, were in one, and Todd Thomas, baritone, Lisa Helmel, soprano, and Barbara Palmer, piano, in the other. They varied the sub¬ stance of their performance according to the age of the audience. "We .played programmatic music, folk songs, shep¬ herd's songs, and the Beatles," Harris said. "We told stories through music," ^even said. The theater and dance troupe made twenty appearances, visiting no more than one school a day but sometimes meeting three different groups at a school. They presented Shakespeare's plays as entertainment and not as litera¬ ture, supplementing their performances with workshops in juggling, improvisa¬ tion, and theater games. One member, Brian Dean, who had devised a more (CONTINUED ON PAGE2) Aluminum belt to ring again for CJVi. Hall Norman C. Craig, professor of chem¬ istry, is scheduled to ring an aluminum bell at 9 am 23 February to mark the anniversary of Charles Martin Hall's discovery of the modern, inexpensive, electrolytic method of producing alu¬ minum, a discovery that led to the founding of the Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa). It also made Hall's fortune and, through his generosity, contributed greatly to that of Oberlin College. "Tradition" Craig is helping to celebrate the ses-quicentennial of the college by reviving the practice of the late Harry N. Holmes, professor of chemistry, who rang the bell in 1936 on the fiftieth anniversary of the discovery and every year thereafter until his retirement. Werner Bromund, emeritus professor of chemistry, is re¬ luctant to call Holmes' practice a "tradi¬ tion," however. "It was a forced thing," he says. "Traditions aren't established that way." Bromund, designated by Holmes to carry on the bell-ringing, let the practice lapse when he went on his first sabbati¬ cal. But he thought the bell itself worth preserving when the chemistry depart¬ ment moved from Severance to Ketter¬ ing. Instead of letting it be thrown away, as some younger members of the depart¬ ment suggested, Bromund hung it from the rafters in his basement and kept it there for twenty years. It is now restored to the chemistry department in Ket¬ tering. Holmes got the bell for Oberlin on a fund-raising trip to Alcoa at the time of the college's centennial. It originally closed the end of a large aluminum tube. If properly struck on the edge, it "rever¬ berates nicely" for a minute or more on a note somewhere between middle C-sharp and D, Bromund says. But if it is struck in the middle, it "clunks." Help from college In retelling the story of the discovery fifty years later. Holmes emphasized the importance of the college's chemistry department and especially of Professor Frank Fanning Jewett. Holmes quoted Jewett's account of his suggesting in class that anyone who found "a process by which aluminum could be made on a commercial scale" would be a "benefac¬ tor to the world" and also "lay up for himself a great fortune. Turning to a classmate, Charles Hall said, 'I'm going for that metal.' And he went for it." After his graduation. Hall borrowed some college equipment from Jewett to continue his experimenting and also sought advice from the professor. About six months later. Hall came to Jewett and announced, "'Professor, I've got it!' There in the palm of his hand lay a dozen little globules of aluminum, the first ever made by the electrolytic pro¬ cess." Holmes' also tells of Hall's subse¬ quent difficulties: a manufacturer wil¬ ling to use the invention while allowing Hall to share in its profits had to be found, and the patent had to be pro¬ tected. A recent historian, Martha M. Tres- (CONTINUED ON PAGE2)
Object Description
Title | Oberlin Observer. 1983-02-17 |
Description | volume 04, number 11 |
Subject | Oberlin College--Periodicals |
Editor | Ganzel, Carol |
Contributors |
Zinn, Grover (au) Bewig, Carl W. (au) |
Topics | Haskell lectures 75th anniversary, 1983; February enrollments, 1983 |
Date | 1983-02-17 |
Year | 1983 |
Month | February |
Day | 17 |
Type | text; image |
Format | |
Identifier | Oberlin_Observer_Vol_4_No_11.pdf |
Publisher | Oberlin College. Library |
Language | English |
Relation | http://www.oberlin.edu/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/library/ref/index.php?db=observerindex |
Number of pages | 4 |
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Transcript | Haskell lectures to celebrate 75th anniversary by Grover A. Zinn Professor David Noel Freedman of the University of Michigan is this year's Haskell lecturer. He will speak Tuesday and Thursday at 8:30 pm in King 106 on "The Law and the Prophets: Formation and Transformation of the Hebrew Scriptures." In addition, Joseph M. Kitagawa of the University of Chicago will give a seventy-fifth anniversary lecture this Sunday, same time and place, entitled, "The Parliament of Re¬ ligions, the Haskell Lectures and the Study of Religion." A reception honor¬ ing both speakers follows this lecture. Bequest The Haskell lectures at Oberlin Col¬ lege were established by a generous bequest by Caroline B. Haskell of Mich¬ igan City, Indiana. In her will, she designated that the lectureship should be concerned with Oriental literature in its relation to the Bible and Christian literature. From its beginning in 1908 the lectureship was entrusted to the faculty of the Graduate School of The¬ ology and, after the merger with the Divinity School of Vanderbilt Univer¬ sity, to the general faculty of Oberlin College. The first Haskell lectures were given in May 1908 by Professor James Frederick McCurdy of the University of Toronto on the topic, "The Bible and the Ancient World." Mrs. Haskell was a close friend of Oberlin's fifth president, John Henry Barrows, who had been pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Chicago before his election to the Oberlin pres¬ idency in 1898. Like Barrows, she was very interested in eastern religions and the spread of Christianity in Asia. The Haskell lectures at Oberlin are tangible evidence of her interest in having the religions of the Bible understood in the light of the wider religious and cultural context of the ancient and eastern worlds. In 1893 Barrows had organized and served as president of the World's Parliament of Religions in Chicago, and in 1897 he traveled to India to deliver a course of lectures on the Chris¬ tian religion. Outstanding scholars During the past seventy-five years, the Haskell lectures have brought to Oberlin many of the world's outstand¬ ing scholars in the field of religion. Early lecturers included George Foot Moore, Friedrich A. Loofs (whose per¬ sonal library in now part of the Oberlin College library), Kirsopp Lake, Rudolf Otto (on mysticism east and west), B. H. Streeter, and Sir Leonard Woolley (speaking on his discoveries at Ur). More recent lecturers have included G. Ernest Wright, Giinther Bornkamm, Yigael Yadin, Dame Kathleen Kenyon, and Paolo Matthiae (on the discoveries at Ebla). Next week a special exhibition of published Haskell lectures and of other books by the lecturers will be on display in the Goodrich Room, Mudd Library. Grover Zinn is professor of religion and chair of the Haskell lectureship committee. To mark the fiftieth anniversary of Charles Martin Hall's discovery of an inexpensive method of extracting aluminum, three Oberlin students held an aluminum bell on 23 February 1936 while Professor Harry N. Holmes rang it. The following year one of the students was replaced by a new member of the faculty, Werner H. Bromund, now emeritus professor of chemistry. Touring performers learn while helping Oberlin "Performing a piece over and over, we had to look for a new thing each time to keep the music alive for ourselves and for the audience," said violinist Laura McGinnis, who is one of ten student musicians who spent winter term tour¬ ing in one of the "Music from Oberlin" groups. "It was a rare opportunity for college students to work on the road," said Jef¬ frey Goldwasser, student tour manager for the... hot ice and wondrous strange snow... company, a group of six actors who also toured during January. Ro¬ berta Rude, assistant professor of the¬ ater, agreed that the "challenge-of an extended run," is rare and valuable for college students. "They had to deal with the unexpected," she said, and to "learn how to work out the conflicts" that are inevitable among people so closely asso¬ ciated for several weeks. No faculty or stall traveled with the students on these tours, but several were involved in the advance planning: The touring actors performed a fifty-minute version of .. hot ice... for high school students who were studying Shake¬ speare. They had worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company actors last fall on a different and longer version and with Rude, who directed the produc¬ tions of both versions. Rude also pre¬ pared a study guide for teachers of the high school audience. The musicians were approved for "Music from Ober¬ lin" tours by some of the conservatory faculty and by Henry Duckham, direc¬ tor of external affairs for the conserva¬ tory. Performers were chosen not only for their talent but also for their ability to talk to high school students and local television interviewers. The tour groups visited "target" schools selected by both the conserva¬ tory and college admissions staff. Mc¬ Ginnis was part of a quartet, which also included pianist Frank Corliss, cellist Paul Kushious, and clarinetist Eleanor Weingartner, that visited high schools in San Diego, Los Angeles, San Fran¬ cisco, and Denver. It performed infor¬ mally about twenty-five times, inter¬ rupting the music to discuss it and its instrumentation with the high school audiences. In addition, it gave five for¬ mal concerts. Despite the intense pace, McGinnis said, "there was always more energy to perform, especially in the formal concerts. After the high school assemblies, it was a treat to sit down and play whole movements." East coast Two trios toured the east coast: Tim Mikesell, piano, Katherine Harris, voice, and Julie Leven, violin, were in one, and Todd Thomas, baritone, Lisa Helmel, soprano, and Barbara Palmer, piano, in the other. They varied the sub¬ stance of their performance according to the age of the audience. "We .played programmatic music, folk songs, shep¬ herd's songs, and the Beatles," Harris said. "We told stories through music," ^even said. The theater and dance troupe made twenty appearances, visiting no more than one school a day but sometimes meeting three different groups at a school. They presented Shakespeare's plays as entertainment and not as litera¬ ture, supplementing their performances with workshops in juggling, improvisa¬ tion, and theater games. One member, Brian Dean, who had devised a more (CONTINUED ON PAGE2) Aluminum belt to ring again for CJVi. Hall Norman C. Craig, professor of chem¬ istry, is scheduled to ring an aluminum bell at 9 am 23 February to mark the anniversary of Charles Martin Hall's discovery of the modern, inexpensive, electrolytic method of producing alu¬ minum, a discovery that led to the founding of the Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa). It also made Hall's fortune and, through his generosity, contributed greatly to that of Oberlin College. "Tradition" Craig is helping to celebrate the ses-quicentennial of the college by reviving the practice of the late Harry N. Holmes, professor of chemistry, who rang the bell in 1936 on the fiftieth anniversary of the discovery and every year thereafter until his retirement. Werner Bromund, emeritus professor of chemistry, is re¬ luctant to call Holmes' practice a "tradi¬ tion," however. "It was a forced thing," he says. "Traditions aren't established that way." Bromund, designated by Holmes to carry on the bell-ringing, let the practice lapse when he went on his first sabbati¬ cal. But he thought the bell itself worth preserving when the chemistry depart¬ ment moved from Severance to Ketter¬ ing. Instead of letting it be thrown away, as some younger members of the depart¬ ment suggested, Bromund hung it from the rafters in his basement and kept it there for twenty years. It is now restored to the chemistry department in Ket¬ tering. Holmes got the bell for Oberlin on a fund-raising trip to Alcoa at the time of the college's centennial. It originally closed the end of a large aluminum tube. If properly struck on the edge, it "rever¬ berates nicely" for a minute or more on a note somewhere between middle C-sharp and D, Bromund says. But if it is struck in the middle, it "clunks." Help from college In retelling the story of the discovery fifty years later. Holmes emphasized the importance of the college's chemistry department and especially of Professor Frank Fanning Jewett. Holmes quoted Jewett's account of his suggesting in class that anyone who found "a process by which aluminum could be made on a commercial scale" would be a "benefac¬ tor to the world" and also "lay up for himself a great fortune. Turning to a classmate, Charles Hall said, 'I'm going for that metal.' And he went for it." After his graduation. Hall borrowed some college equipment from Jewett to continue his experimenting and also sought advice from the professor. About six months later. Hall came to Jewett and announced, "'Professor, I've got it!' There in the palm of his hand lay a dozen little globules of aluminum, the first ever made by the electrolytic pro¬ cess." Holmes' also tells of Hall's subse¬ quent difficulties: a manufacturer wil¬ ling to use the invention while allowing Hall to share in its profits had to be found, and the patent had to be pro¬ tected. A recent historian, Martha M. Tres- (CONTINUED ON PAGE2) |
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