THE GREAT DEBATERS             Last night Mari and I watched a film on TV called “The Great Debaters” which we strongly recommend to everyone. It is about some Black students at a Southern (Texas) college in the 1930s. Great actors too – Denzel Washington, etc. Lots of pre-Civil Rights issues and events – as well…

        At a previous post I wrote about our time at the College of St. Rose in Albany NY which recently closed. This put me in mind of our years just before that while I was teaching at a small school, Barrington College in Rhode Island. This college also has closed. Even this conjunction…