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

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.The froet eonzes sud- denly to ri 'village known The poet is astounded at the various noises emitted by the C01lSL'l Z!!l- tary. The poet is delighted at the Peripatetie and Platonic philosophy prae- tised in this town. u CANTO II. So on he rode on his good steed's back Till, dazed, he landed with a whack. And can it he that this 's the place I've sought so long with patient grace? Ah, 'tis, I feel, 'tis Oberlin Its buildings must my praises win. There's Titus' arch, this much is clear, It's taken wings and settled here. CANTO III. But what's this noise assails my ear? Tis truly more than I can hear. Bagpipes screeching, Preachers preaching, Horns a-blowing, Cattle lowing, Could not, I'm sure, exceed the way They take to music in this day. CANTO IV. His eye roamed o'er the campus wide: Couples strolling there he spied. Ha, he said, I see 'tis plain, This is Aristotle's fane. A Peripatetic doctrines here Are to students the most dear. Walking around they chatter knowledge As that old Greek did in his college. Yes, Platonic doctrines, too, Carry weight with quite a few. CANTO V. Qbeing in an entirely different meterj The poet 'visits the library and is astounded at the niethods of stndv there pursued. This is the place I've been searching, As he walked up the library stairs. But what is this noise that assails me? Can it be that they study in pairs? True in the schools of far China They study, for so it is said, CSurprised to find here such a methedj With the tongue and not with the head 26

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The Legend of la mbard a. Poet of Algiers and His Travels lleing an epic poem in nine hooks 0 and composed according to none of 1, w .N . . the rules which in the unenhghtened 6 ages were supposed to govern that H sort of composition, having a hegin- IZQMJ X-W ning, since, forsooth, it must begin, ' aff' and an ending since hy the limits of this hook and hy a kind Providence it must end, written in various and , sundry irregular meters. Gratefully dedicated to whomso- ever may graciously please to read it. K... BOOK I CANTO I. The poet feels an im- pulse tn conzmunicatc 'wilh kindred souls. wlzirlz iizzfmlsc nmwx him In lrawl. There was a poet of Algiers, Extremely knowing for his years. It chanced upon a fine spring day This poet to his stecd did say. Pegasus, 'tis time we journeyed 'l'o visit dwellings of the learned. XVC know hy heart all Euclid's rules, And doctrines of Platonic schools: 'l'would he so sweet to sympathize XVith others who like us are wise, NVho love the prohlems mathcmatic, And scan exactly meters Attic. So hear me to a classic town The farthest known hy its renown. 25

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,- ..? The College Chapel At one dcloels Sunday morning, jztnnury twenty-fourth, the histtwrie college chapel, which for nearly half at century hztrl heen the centre of the ztcztcleinte hfe of the insti- tution' WHS dem-,,yCf1 by tire. Q'l'hns one more- of the old lznnlntztrks of thc college :tnil toxvn has 41i51lppqgtretl. The tire prohztlmlyNortgrtnzttecl from :tn overhexttecl tlne nrthe hnsement, directly under the Acztrleiny othce. When hrst rhseoverecl it had- gained such heuclwzty that it wzts nnpossihle to I.3I'L'HQl'VC ztnryrotf the contents of this office he records in the Registrars othee :ul-ponttng. Within an honr :incl Il and many of t A I hztlf the roof hurl fallen tn, leaving only the walls. None of the spectators will forget the nmgieztl effect of the tlmnes on the snow- covcred campus. 'lihe impressiveness of the sight wats tleepenecl hy the force of our associations eotnlaetirl with the h ilrl:nf:'. l'l'L!SlllLlll lxtng. in his :tllnston to them said on the llzty of Prayer. lt is the first tnnv: hat the stnilents have niet to observe ihis clzty elsewhere than in the old chapel. D I 'We are now looking forwztrrl to the prospect of.:1 new ehnpel with 11 cnpnclty more ilclequztte to the incrertslng tletnztnrls of the Oherhn stnflent-hotly. lhe proposetl building will 1,0 C1-K-dt-ft oooosite the north-east corner of the campus, where the lfinney house now stands. 27