I don’t really like Nathaniel Hawthorne’s writing. And I don’t like Ernest Hemingway or Gerard Manley Hopkins that much either. I’m not saying that their writing is bad; I’m not saying that it shouldn’t be considered “literature” — I’m simply saying that I don’t enjoy reading it.
Author: Tory Cooney
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Diagnosis prompts passion
Caroline Potter ’12, formerly Caroline Cheatum, was a junior at Hillsdale College when her health began to deteriorate, and no one knew why. “We went to a lot of doctors, but no one could solve it,” Potter said. “Then, over Christmas break, I found out I had Type 1 diabetes.” Potter, her family, and the...
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Cracking the Code: Hillsdale alum aided U.S. intelligence during world wars
Elizebeth graduated from Hillsdale College in 1915 with a B.A. in English, an annotated volume of Alfred Tennyson that she kept until her death, and an interest in Shakespeare that unexpectedly led her to become a pioneer in the field of cryptography. Elizebeth S. Friedman was born on Aug. 26, 1892 in Huntington, Ind. to...
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Q&A: Mitzi Gaynor
Mitzi Gaynor is an Emmy Awardwinning actresssingerdancercomedienne who starred in movies including There’s No Business Like Show Business, Anything Goes, and South Pacific — for which she received a Golden Globe nomination. She launched a wildly successful stage career in 1961 and was even billed over The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1964....
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Vanished Hillsdale
Esli K. Crocker was born in 1859 on a farm in North Reading. He learned how to train horses from his father, but he soon surpassed his old man in years. By the mid-1880s, he was known as Professor E.K. Crocker and had taken his “educated horses, ponies and mules” on the road. His first...