Oberlin College - Hi-O-Hi Yearbook (Oberlin, OH)

-' R RN 'Rm RmRRx w me R X R -R R RX X xx XX X X R R, R Q X X R WR R R S 5 R R R R R R t R S N X 7 X R R 3 R E SX Mmm' ' rm . . S E R R R E R R R R .f it 1 t ' 1 R R S S l1I,,, if 1 tit t S R R R R R R R R R XR R R N R E R R R R R R R 5 R XR R R R R R R R R E S "1 E R R R R S S of S S -A--f -f R R R R R R R R R S S ARTHUR P. HONESS . , , President SX S S S CARL S. MCKELLOGG . . Vice-President S S S S GEORGE S. BREWER . . Secretary S it E BERT C. RINEAR . . . . Treasurer 3 S R R R R S S DIRECTORS S S R R R R HERBERT I. CRANE . .... . Chemistry sk HARRY E. KINNEY Physics X X be S W. LAVAY FANCHER . Geology R R R R R R . R R R .4 R R S S To the Editor. . h - . ' S 2 S You have asked me to give you a reason for the formation of a scientific society S S QR in Cberlin College. Now while I will agree with you that it is strange that a scientific E S S S society should be formed in the same year as the Dramatic Association, the Press Club, S E SR S and half a dozen other organizations, the remarkable thing, to me, is that it has not been S S S S done before. Once, indeed, there was a time when science was not counted among the E if S liberal studies, but today, to ask for a justification of a society whose ambition is to S S S S increase the common knowledge of the physical sciences, to supplement the curriculum is S S S work by excursions, and to afford a forum for the discussion of the scientific questions S S S S of the day, is to seem palaeocrystic. While at the time when Huxley championed the S E S cause of scientific education a justification of Tau Phi Gamma might have been rightly S S R S asked for, today, when every school has its honorary scientific societies and fraternities, 5 S Rs R . . . . . . . R R S S there is an obvious need for this society in Oberlin. For men always like to talk about S E S is the things in which they are interested, and as it is peculiarly necessary in talking about xg Q R R scientific sub'ects to have intelligent hearers, this society was formed to afford the scieu- S R J 5 S, ' - ' - - 5 R S S tific students of Oberlin College a bond for their acquaintance and fellowship. S S R . . . . . . R S E The great practical justification, however, for the formation of Tau Phi C-amma S E E S is its roll of thirty charter members, its discussions of such subjects as the Nebular and S E R S Planetissimal Hy otheses, and the apers read before it on such subjects as: Wireless S R R R .P , F . . . . . R R S S Telegraphy fwith a demonstration of a working setl, Road Making, The Fixation ot Ng S E S Nitrogen, Color Photography, and Radioactivity.-H. I. C. E S R R R R R 5 R N R R R R R R R R R R R VN R R' R N SE X R X 5 X XX 'N R X 5 ' X529 X X NR Qt Q Xxwtww 125