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

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'uv f 1. A Q 2 - 4 Elie Glnllrge anti 3115 Alumni l am glad that the College Annual is finding a place in its issue this year for relations to the Alumnig for the relation of Alumni to their Alma Mater is a relation of peculiar intimacy and significance. The Alumni have had an opportunity to know the College thoroly from within-both its weaknesses and its strength. They have tested its educational methods and become familiar with its standards. They have had a part, as students, in deter- mining its ideals. They have watched its growth, both from within and without. They are far enough removed from college life to give a fairly objective judgment. Many Alumni too have had experience as graduate students in other institutions, and are, so, able to bring helpful comparisons to bear in reaching and recording their judgments of their Alma Materg tho, no doubt, here, the chief thing that the Alumnus needs to guard himself against is the assumption so frequently made, that things are just as they were when he was in college. For such reasons as these, the opinions of the Alumni necessarily carry, and ought to carry, unusual weight in determining college policies. In the case of Oberlin, the Alumni elect directly one-fourth of the membership of the Board of Trustees. Beyond this, at present, as a matter of fact, eighteen of the twenty-five members of the board are Alumni of the College, and Alumni are largely represented, as well, of course in the faculty. The Alumni are the College, in no small degree. Ultimately the College is quite certain to reflect their spiritg its continuing cosmopolitan character, too, is made possible in no small degree by the Alumni. They are, themselves, the best evidence of the worth of the College, and its most natural defenders and supporters. If they do not believe in the College no one else can be expected to. A lukewarmness on the part of the Alumni, thus, is naturally interpreted as meaning that the College does not deserve hearty support. It becomes of the first importance, therefore, that the franlcest and most -cordial relations possible should exist between any college and its former 25

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