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

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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

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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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The Good Year of 1910-11 IN 'rim matter of the increasing of the material resources of the college as the by-laws put it-the year reviewed by this lli-O-Hi has certainly been an interesting one. - One chapel audience greeted enthusiastically the announcement of Dr. and Mrs. Lucien XfVarner's gift making possible at once the completion of the Men's Gymnasium, as well as its partial endowment-a gift amounting to about 350,000 Only 'a few days later another chapel service was ended with the splendid news that the long-hoped-for and longer-needed .fkdmiuistration l-luilding had been promised by a friend. This meant another SB50,000. On the same day Presi- dent King was able to tell of a pledge of 510,000 from Mr. and Mrs. George M. Clarke, of Chicago, towards the erection of Keep Cottage, to be constructed at a total cost of not less than flS25,000, within the next two yearsf' Mrs. Clarke' is a graduate of the college, and is a granddaughter of lfather John Keep, who played so important a part in the early days of Oberlin. ln addition to these there were also two gifts of 35,000 each to be mentioned, one from our trustee, M r. L. I-I. Severance, of New York, and one from an anonymous admirer of the college's ideals. Hardly a week later enthusiasm was again aroused by the announcement of the gift of the johnson estate by a non-resident donor. The plans for the use of this by the college have not yet been entirely decided upon. 'lt includes the John- son mansion on South Professor Street, and about twenty-two acres of land-of a value between 335,000 and 340,000 It is practically certain that before the lrli-U-Ili appears other donations will have been told of from the chapel platform amounting to at least 320,000 needed to end the Half Million liund. The new pledges received during the year will then total S200,000. VVith the Half Million Fund thus completed, there will be brought in that part of the 3200.000 pledged by the unknown friend not ex- pended in the lNlen's Building, the Sl9l25,000 pledged for endowment by the General Education Board, and 315,000 in other gifts. This same year has also seen the payment to the college treasurer of the 350,000 bequeathed by Mr. John Stewart Kennedy, of New York. There will, therefore, have been added to the material resources of our alma mater during this good year of l9l0-ll the splendid sum of 3590.000 It is to be noted, also, that of this great amount-easily the largest received in any year of the institu- tion's history-almost S400,000 has been pledged by persons and an organization not connected with Oberlin College as students. or through the usual relation- ships of sentiment, or in any other way than as thoughtful, careful students of education and philanthropy. This, I believe, is of very great significance with regard to the probability of Oberlin's being given in the future still greater means for the fuller realization of her unique moral-religions-educational ideals. Cn.lxm.izs Wnrrl NG W1r.L1,x xl-s. 15