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

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The Men's Senate Soma TIME has elapsed since the hIcn's Senate has been invited to contribute its annual autobiography. More than one person, no doubt, has been misled into believing that the reason the Senate's I-Iistory has not been published is because it has had no history. .But while the Senate has never felt that it must be turning things upside down merely for the sake of doing something, it has, nevertheless, dealt with a good many important problems of our student life, has dealt with them fearlessly, and, it is to be hoped, has dealt with them with a fair degree of wisdom and common sense. For three years the organized Freshman-Sophomore scrap has taken the place of the dangerous, illegal, retaliatory hazing and guerrilla warfare in which the more barbarous of the two lower classes had been accustomed to indulge. For nearly two years the Honor System has been in operation and is re- ceiving with more and more certainty the loyal support of the students and faculty. The Honor Courts have felt the responsibility which the student body through the Senate places upon them and have striven to do their very dis- tasteful work with discretion and fairness. The Senate has helped to crystalize and preserve a few well chosen college traditions, not least among which have been our college sings. The movement for the fourth men's literary society was carefully planned and carried through and with a thorough knowledge of the situation at hand, there is little doubt that the new society will be born within the next year or so. With these tangible results already accomplished, and standing as it does face to face with many problems of equal importance in different stages of solu- tion, the Senate bids fair to increase in usefulness and infiuence as the years b . pass y R. E. C. 28

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Phi Beta Kappa Tm: STUDENT body of Oberlin has been inclined to overlook the importance of Phi Beta Kappa, as an organization. It has, rather, accepted the symbol for the whole and failed to see beyond the dangling key. Phi Beta Kappa, as a society, has not had its deserved connection with the college life. The comparatively recent action of the Zeta chapter has tended to bring the college into closer association with the Phi Beta Kappa society. In March of last year it was voted that the Zeta chapter provide for an annual lecture to be given before the college in place of the last monthly lecture of the year, and that there be in connection with this lecture a banquet to celebrate the admission of new members into the society. The banquet of last year was held on the thirtieth of May at the Park Hotel. At this time an address on the history and ideals of Phi Beta Kappa was given by the president, and new members were formally admitted. The election of olificers which also occurred at the banquet resulted in the re-election of the officers of the preceding year. On the following day the first lecture under the supervision of Phi Beta Kappa was delivered before the college. The chapter secured Professor Paul Shorey of the department of classical philology of the University of Chicago, who gave a remarkable address on The Unity of the Human Spirit. With this lecture of Professor Shorey's, Phi Beta Kappa took its first active share in college life. The student body as a whole, apart from the few chosen to membership in the society, has not failed to realize that Oberlin has been highly honored in receiving a chapter in Phi Beta Kappa. The introduction of the annual Phi Beta Kappa lecture will give each student a sense of his own relation to the society as a college organization, and arouse in him an added pride of ownership. 27

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The Men's Senate President .H ...... ........ . R. EUGENE CUSIIMAN V irc-Presiaent .... .... I .AURENCE H. MAcD'AN1Er.s ifwcvrciary ....... ...... C ARROLL M. RomaR'rs I rvasurer .... ............ .... C I .ARENCE C. YOUNG MEMBERS Ex-officio Edmund Burroughs, President Senior Class Alan M. Miller, President junior Class Clarence C. Young, President Sophomore Class Frank C. Fisher, President Freshman Class G. Earl Murphy. Editor Review John ll. Tucker, President Athletic Association R. Eugene Cushman, l'resident Y. M. C. A. Herbert M. Howison, l'resident Conservatory Men's Board Elected Seniors Donald M. Brodie Samuel N. Kinney Keyes D. Metcalf Jay ll. Nash Juniors Laurence H. MacDaniels T. Nelson Metcalf Charles C. Shedd Sophomorcs John N. 1-Iall Carroll N. Roberts Fresh 11101: Russell NV. Jelliff .S'em'inary Albert C. Schumacher C0ll'SCl Z'llf0l'jl Harold R. Harvey HONOR COURT - R. Eugene Cushman, '11, Clmirmau Edmund Burroughs, '11 Keyes D. Metcalf, 'll Laurence I-I. MacDaniels, '12 jay B. Nash, '11 29