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

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debates and oratorical contests. The fire-places here are especially attractive and are made of smooth stone set in a very artistic design. The Y. M. C. A. headquarters occupy the entire northeastern corner of the main floor and comprise a suite of three very ample rooms, well-furnished and hung with many pictures. There is the outer office and the inner office and also a large room for the cabinet meetings, committee meetings, liiblc Study classes, etc. In the southeast corner is the library. Fifty different magazines are to be found on the shelves and sixteen different newspapers are received daily from all the important cities whence come Oberlin students. The study and writing rooms are nicely furnished and offer to the men a quiet retiring place where one can read or write without molestation. The game room is well supplied with attractive games and is used a great deal by the men during the afternoons and evenings. On the second floor are the well-furnished and well-equipped literary society rooms. Alpha Zeta, Phi Delta, and Phi Kappa Pi seem to have vied with each other in making their rooms attractive, and the result is a pleasing one. The society colors have been used as a decorative scheme in each respective case and the efficiency of the societies will he more than doubled in consequence of the inspiring and uplifting environment which has been produced. These rooms are all furnished in light oak, mission style, and the whole effect is solid and dur- able. 'lfhe fire-places come in also for a large share in the general attractive- ness of the rooms. The rooms for the Athletic Association, the Senate and the ll. it .A if K . . ,,. ,X Q W lu..,.,v, LIBRARY f 13

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BILLIARD AND POOL ROOM stairway, the large college seal over the assembly hall entrance, all have been chosen and supplied without sham or thought of display. Here in this atmosphere of simple beauty and comfort, the men lounge, and make friendships. Here they meet with one another and while away the hours of legitimate laziness. The large green marble hre-places at either end of the lobby are inviting and cozy, and the ingle nook seats a1'e places of tempting softness and ease. Down in the basement, with cement floors and tastily decorated walls, are the dining room, barber shop, kitchen, wash room, billiard and pool roo1n and the bowling alleys. These latter have done a great deal toward furnishing the men of the college with a clean and efficient rendezvous for pleasure and recreation. Within the first two months that the building was in use, nearly three hundred different men used the billiard and pool room. The bowling alleys are no less popular and are patronized appreciatively by the men. The equipment for these rooms is the best that could be obtained and the investment is being fully justified every day by the men who frequent the rooms. On the main floor are the assembly hall, the Y. M. C. A. rooms, the library, the game room, the study room, the writing room, and the ladies' room, in addition to the spacious lobby. The assembly 'hall is one of the prettiest rooms in the building. It has a high burlap wainscoting on the walls and the ceiling is finished in the bare beams which show up handsomely against the white plaster, This room has a movable platform and the chairs are such as can be folded and carried out of the way in case the room is needed for a reception or some other function. Here the association meetings will be held, and also the intersociety 12

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Glee Club have not been entirely furnished as yet. but they will have a need to meet and will satisfy the need in a pleasing way. The large, open trophy room just at the head of the stairway will make a noble repository for the scalps of our enemies. This is a very attractive room and opens out with large, full length windows upon the roof of the porch in front of the building. Up on the third floor is the habitat of the fortunate fortnnates who were initiated and who helped initiate. ltlere seventy fellows hold sway and glory in luxurious and elegant quarters. Not luxurious or elegant to the point of sin, or extravagance, but surely as luxurious and as elegant as anything ever seen in Uberlin before. The rooms are well furnished. They are well supplied with light Ellltl heat and are very desirable. The house is self-governed and no un- necessary or disturbing noises are tolerated. Rules have been worked out and agreed to and the men respect and obey them. 'l'ennants, pictures, souvenirs. relics, and curios make of every room a masterpiece of college decoration. The college has done all that could have been asked to make the men happy and comfortable, and they are unquestionably so. Everything is not perfectly adjusted as yet, but experience is rapidly teaching the wants and needs of the establishment and the needs are being met amply and nngrudgingly. The donor of the building is unknown and the gratitude of the hearts of the men is vaguely seeking expression. lf ever the name of our friend is divulged, there will come his way such a Hood tide of praise and sincere landation as few men have received in the making of history. D. NV. QI'oNlcs. LITERARY SOCIET Y ROOM 14