Oberlin Academy - Etean Yearbook (Oberlin, OH)

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THE FACULTY THANKSGIVING RECEPTION The annual Thanksgwmg Party g1ven by the Faculty to all Academy students was held th1s year 1n the new Academy blllldlllg W1th a few 6XC8pt1011S everyone was present and the 1nformal way 1n whlch the program was carrled out made the evenmg a grand success Instead of the usual Faculty Play Professor Sheunan read sev eral ve1y mterestmg Canad1an French stor1es Fhese were followed by movles upsta1rs 1n the study loom and then all returned to the first floor for a brlef smg After the Glee Club had responded to several encores refreshments were served Lusclous chocolate lce cream w1th pmeapple hldden away 1ns1de chocolate cake macaroons and buttercup candles furn1shed a very satls fymg end to a most enjoyable evenmg s ' 1 1 . .. . r Q . . . - . ,. cc ' n ' - , 2 J . ' , C 7 9

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Evelyn Rider, '12, takes up the study of Medicine at the Unversity of Michigan next year, after two years of special pre- paratory work in Oberlin College. Hope Townsley, ex-'14, has been away at school this year, attending Agnes Scott College at Atlanta, Georgia. Judith Murphy, 113, finds life in Nevada most full of new and interesting exper- iences. She is teaching in a small town called Ely. I Helen Bliven, '13, has found society more attractive than further school, and is enjoying a gay life in her home city. The following members of the Class of 1913 are attending Oberlin College: Dorothea Ayres Flora Bewersdorf Agnes Brown CVice-pres.D Paul Bunker William Dymacek Elizabeth Hall Olga Hammond Charles Hard Edwena Jones Bohuslav Maticka Alfons Pirnik Joseph Putman Clarence Shriber Arthur Talmadge Ferne Tudehope Mary Turner Marian Waterman Gladys Williams 0neHdd 171

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THE CARNIVAL January seventeenth was a red-letter day in the annals of the class of 1914. On that date occurred the event which insured the fulfillment of the project which 1914 inau- gurated, and which finds its completion in this annual. Posters prominently displayed announced to the public that a carnival, whatever that might be, would be held in the Academy on that evening, and the approaches to the Academy were marked with guiding arrows on which were suggestions novel and weird as to what might be found at the end of the route. The first impression upon entering the building was that the carnival was a Babel. Musical UD instruments resounded. The shouting of barkers advertising their respec- tive shows mingled with the din or rose above it according to the lung capacity of the barker,'. The halls and stairways were crowded with people moving in all directions, coming out of or disappearing into the various rooms. Could there be any system or order in such a mob? And yet it was soon evident that someone must have been planning and that this was far from being the chaos that it seemed, for once within the doors of the various rooms, the fact became apparent that the Academy had been working with a common enthusiasm for a common end. In the waiting room of the Principal's office we saw one phase Clet us hope it was not the only onej of life at Allencroft. Did Allencroft choose 'this particular room because it. was more at home there? In another a genuine Italian street scene was enacted with the j unk-man plying his trade. In the large study-room an original and thrilling moving picture of a sensational burg- lary was produced. In another the wonders of modernsurgery were shown, by which all One Hun dred and Fourte