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

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Henry Churchill King, LL.D. President King RESIDENT KING is in a true sense a citizen of the world. Few of us in Oberlin, absorbed as we are in our round of tasks, can appreciate at how many and various points he touches the life of our time. We know some- thing of the constructive religious and political work he did in Europe and Western Asia during his sabbatical year 1918-1919-work which led john R. Mott to call him a religious statesman of the first order, and the recognition accorded it by the French government in bestowing upon him last December the coveted order of Chevalier of the Legion of I-lonorg but we scarcely compre- hend how largely World problems bulk in his interests and thinking during any ordinary day here at home. I-le is chairman or member of half a dozen coun- cils and committees who are championing international and world movements, and his judgment and advice are sought by numerous other national and inter- national organizations. Through his numerous addresses, too, he is touching the leaders of thought and action throughout the country. During the past year he has given more than a hundred addresses and sermons, not to mention the chapel talks and 26

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lectures before his Sunday morning Bible Class here in Oberlin. l-le has attended during the same time over a score of meetings of national and international reli- gious and educational committees and associations. As some one has suggested, he does the work of four men. First, he is president of a great and growing college and is serving that college with rare distinction. During his presidency the scholastic standards of the college have risen and the resources been greatly increased, in a word, the college has risen from a struggling institution to a place of rank among the first colleges of the country. Beyond this, he has still larger plans for the Oberlin of the future, as evidenced in his report to the trustees last fall and given in outline before the students and faculty in chapel. These plans call for an extensive building campaign, for added equipment and library facilities, for increased teaching force, for greater opportunities for research, and for a thoroughly equipped technical school. What college is being served more largely and wisely? Second, he teaches as many hours as many professors in large universities and who would say not effectively! Few lyceum lecturers give more addresses in a year than President King, and, not least, he writes as voluminously and effectively as most men who give their whole time to writing. This scholar and world citizen, who, as a great educator recently said, would be an ornament to any university in the world, this protagonist of the sacred- ness of personality and of the supremacy of friendship, is our president and may become our spiritual adviser and friend. What greater boon could come to an aspiring youth! jesse F. Mack. , TN . 1-N .r , 'XX x f' ,?F'4 f'R V fp g H,-K wvhig,-.g.,i -5,1 , , f A, l I .lim ,n +N'f-'fviiijf-f: 'FYHSQ' ' 'ga f ' f...,,qg,5 ' - 5 JL' ' -ii ll'-f-Ti i 521' 'f.-v.'v'- , -' , , V 1. :vi N I t, Q 'P L fi g F f ' 1 ' 'W 'P - , ' f ., rl ' Jl ik ' EM, ,214 NK A f . ff 1 , , ir, s 1 X ' ji V971 -- ' ' f fl - V . ii i i i fi we ' 1 ' Z7