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Item OLD FARM CHANGED INTO ARTS COLLEGE: Marlboro Campus, in Vermont, Was Group of Abandoned Barns Only 2 Years Ago(New York Times, 1949-06-13) Fine, Benjamin"Several days ago, a chorus from Bennington College, near by, joined with the Marlboro boys in a concert that netted $1,000. This money will be used to buy a badly needed piano."Item Post-War Education (Correspondence)(Bennington College, 1944-09) Jones, Lewis Webster; Fine, BenjaminWe have always believed that the humanities constituted a part of the central core of all liberal education and we have never believed that there was an antithesis between liberal and vocational education...Under the Bennington plan many of the activities which have been called extra-curricular - music, drama, etc - are incorporated as a part of our regular educational program...We shall continue, as we have in the past, to attempt to teach our students toward a thorough understanding of the place of our nation in the international community. I don't feel, however, that this can be accomplished merely by setting up additional courses, but it must grow out of the development of the whole curriculum. If that is soundly conceived and soundly executed, understanding of our own culture as well as of other cultures will result.