Source: Good News Network
185 years ago today, Oberlin College was founded by two Presbyterian ministers on 500 donated acres in Oberlin, Ohio. It was the first coeducational liberal arts college in the United States and the second oldest continuously operating coeducational institute of higher learning in the world.
Oberlin also became one of the first American colleges to admit African-Americans. Alumni notables include several Nobel laureates, Thornton Wilder and a dozen other Pulitzer Prize winners, 12 MacArthur Fellows, actors Ed Helms and. Lena Dunham, and RadioLab and TV broadcaster Robert Krulwich.(1833)Oberlin’s progressive founders bragged that “Oberlin is peculiar in that which is good.”
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