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Lessons My Parents Taught Me

April 26, 2009

The April 13th edition of the New Yorker featured an article by cultural critic, Alex Ross, about the 70th anniversary of Marian Anderson's historic concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.  Ms. Anderson had been denied access to perform in the historic Constitution Hall by the Daughter's of the American Revolution, because of the [...]

Eliza's sons

April 5, 2009

Even though we're small in rank We've only just begun We join you Eliza's Daughters We're Eliza's Sons. Those are the closing lines of the song, "Men of '92," which was penned by former Dean of Students Sue Alexander at the start of Wheaton's transition to coeducation. The song was first performed by the men of the Class of '92 [...]