Oberlin College and the Boxer Rebellion

At a mid-afternoon break we take a walk on Oberlin College, the first college to desegregate enrollment.  It’s a beautiful fall day on a college campus. 

The entrance has a clever statue carving that looks different from different angles.  This symbolizes the ideals behind the school.  Learning to learn from different perspectives.  The walk leads on to monument honoring Oberlin missionaries killed in the Boxer Rebellion in China.  The rebellion opposed the western imperialist expansion into China, opium trade, economic and political conflict and evangelical missionaries.  Something strikes me as inconsistent on the one hand their guiding principal is seeing the world from different perspectives, but they sent missionaries to China to change their perspective in the late 1890s.