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

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Oberlin's history has been a history of honorable progress, of great motives and great men, of fearless faith in God, and steadfast- ness to His Word. Wfith such foundation, such motives, such men, such a faith, Oberlin has every title and every right to a just pride in her history. She stands to-day better than she ever was before, com- bining all the good of past achievement with the spirit and determina- tion of future progress. The old and the new, inseparably united, and working with but one end in VTCWV-GBERLIN FOREVER. fx Rev. Samuel Fuller Porter, O. T. S., '36, en- joys the honor of being the oldest living gradu- ate of Gberlin. He is further honored by be- ing the last survivor of that memorable group of students who came to Oberlin from Lane Sem-- inary, Cincinnati, Qhio, and formed the first class of students of a c t u a l College rank. The Rev. Mr. Porter was born in Wfhitestown, N. Y., September IS7, 1813, and took his un- dergraduate xv o r lc a t Uneida Institute. Ever since his graduation here. he has been engaged, until very recently, in some form of religious work, serving variously as Volunteer Chaplain during the last year of the VVar, as a Missionary in the West, and as Pastor of Congre- gational churches throughout the country. He is now living at 26 South Pleasant Street. Oberlin, Ohio. 21 QBhe1fIin's Qblhest cbrahuate

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OR a College generation the students of Oberlin have not been able to meet for chapel services in their own chapel building. The present Senior class entered College after the old building was destroyed. During the interim chapel services have been held in the First Church and for a time during the present year in XVarner Concert Hall and in Sturges Hallj After a four years' exile the College is soon to occupy its new chapel home, the Finney Memorial Chapel. A This beautiful building occupies the site of the former Finney House, well known to Oberlin Alumni for many years as the home of President Finney, and was built as a memorial to him by his son, Frederick Norton Finney. There are perhaps no recollections of Oberlin College life that come oftener to the memory of her students after they have gone out into the world, and no associations dearer than those that are connected with the chapel. Here is the real heart of the College. Here all the students of all departments meet with the Faculties as a Christian College, recognizing each day the Christian principles and Christian leadership for which the College stands. The com- mon interests of -the entire College are voiced here, and here for four years the student meets his classmates and learns to know the stu- dent body. The new student lirst feels he is a member of a College when he takes his place in his first chapel service. The stranger in Oberlin gets his first idea of the College as something distinct from buildings and grounds when he sees the long lines pouring out across the Campus at close of chapel. The influence of the service for four years and the memories connected with it become for a majority of the students, one of the most precious possessions of student days. The new chapel gives us an opportunity to make this feature of our College life count for even more in the future than it has in the past history of the College. l D jfinmzp emurial Qlbapel ftEhtna1riJ Q. Miller