WOOSTER, Ohio, Oct. 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- When The College of Wooster found itself without a football opponent for Homecoming, it created a bit of a sticky wicket, but some quick thinking by Wooster's administrators led to a novel back-up plan.

By Jeanine Kendle Editor's note: This is the fifth of seven parts. By PAUL LOCHER Staff Writer WOOSTER -- By the 1870s American life was becoming increasingly oriented around the machine, a fact the educational process reflected.

By Jeanine Kendle WOOSTER -- Three faculty members and two students from The College of Wooster will join more than 10,000 other scientists at the first joint meeting of the Geological Society of America, the Soil Science Society of America, the American Society of Agronomy, the Crop Science Society of America, and the Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies.

By LINDA HALL By LINDA HALL Staff Writer WOOSTER -- Technical Sgt. Eric Knorr doesn't feel a bit blase about his upcoming performance with a military band in the Wooster High School Performing Arts Center, even though deployment with "Hot Brass" took him to Kyrgyzstan and Djibouti.

By ADAM BURROUGHS By ADAM BURROUGHS Staff Writer Invaluable pieces of history -- reels of film shot in 1912, which have value to both Wooster and the nation -- beat the odds to endure nearly 100 years.