Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

By Jennifer Mower These caps were recently donated to the HCTAC by the Nichols family, whose relative, Benjamin Nichols was a freshman at Oregon Agricultural College in 1917. He earned a degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1919 and went on to earn a Master’s of Science degree in 1932. Between 1934 and 1953 he worked…

By Jennifer Mower On display in Milam Hall through May are several textile objects made in China during the Qing Dynasty during the late 19th and early 20th centuries . Objects feature embroidered animal, floral, human motifs. “Every symbol in Chinese textiles has significance . . . [that has] evolved from several philosophies and concepts,”…

Now on display through March 10 are three shift dresses. Born from the chemise, the shift dress is an easy fitting, unwaisted silhouette that could be worn without the restrictive corsets and undergarments of previous decades. Introduced in the late 1950s, shift dresses dominated clothing racks just about everywhere by the mid-1960s (Farrell-Beck and Parsons,…