August 1887 issue of the
Oread, student newspaper of Shimer College during the late
Seminary period of the school's history. Digitized by Northern Illinois University.
This issue opens with an essay on "The Mission of Evil" by
Margaret Powell.
Then a women's seminary located in Mount Carroll, Illinois, Shimer is today a very small liberal arts college in Chicago that follows a textbook-free
Great Books curriculum and operates the nation's longest-running
early entrance program.