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

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The Board of Trustees of Oberlin College I-IEN what is now called Oberlin College was founded in 1833, there was formed a board of nine men, called The Board of Trustees of the Oberlin Collegiate Institute, who were to be the governing body of the institution. This Board of Trustees proved its usefulness and efficiency, and by constant effort helped bring the Institution out of its infancy to the Oberlin College to which it has grown. The name Oberlin College was adopted in 1850, and in 1889 the Board of Trustees was increased to consist of twenty-five members, the President of the College being ex-officio a member and President of the Board. Four members of the Board are elected every year to serve for six years. Of these, three are elected by the Board itself, and one is elected by a general ballot of the alumni of all departments. In the Board of Trustees is vested the whole government of the college, and it is largely through its excellent judgment and constant efforts that Oberlin has come to be what it is. I-lowever, the policy of the Board has not been one of high-handed management of all college affairs. There has been a steady cooperation between the faculty and the Board, which has resulted in an insti- tution whose standards of education and efficiency of management are among the best in the country. The outstanding action of the Board of Trustees at their annual meeting on November 14, 1919, was the adoption of the recommendation of the President and of the General Faculty, that the salaries of the members of the Faculty be increased fifty per cent to date from September 1, 1919. Plans were also made at this time for a reorganization of the Alumni Association. At the next annual meeting of the Board, on November 12, 1920, a more definite form was given to the plans for the Future Oberlin than has ever before been attempted. At this meeting, President King, in his. annual report, outlined in very definite terms the needs of the College, including endowment, buildings, lands, and plans for a technical school. I-le forecast the natural lines of growth of the college, and has given us a plan, which, if followed out, will make the Oberlin of the Future even a grander school than it is at present. President King saysz. There is no attempt here to provide for a university, but to provide adequately for the finest quality of work in the departments already in existence, to allow for growth in the opportunities offered and in the numbers served, and to suggest one addition- al School. May we live to see this Greater Oberlin blossom forth in all its g ory! . 28

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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

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Board of Trustees HENRY CHURCHILL KING, D.D., LL.D., L.H.D., President Term expires january I, Robert E. Brown ............. Harriet L. Keeler,' LL.D. - - William P. Palmer .... Henry M. Tenney, D.D. ......... Term expires january 1, Theodore E. Burtonf LL.D. ....... - E. Dana Durand, Ph.D. - Charles B. Shedd .... Lucien T. Warner - - - Term expires january I, Alexander Hadden, LL.D. Homer H. johnson .... Charles H. Kirshner - - - Robert A. Millikan,' Sc.D. Term expires january 1, Clayton K. Fauver ............ Amos B. McNairy .... ....... john L. Severance ..... Lucien C. Warner,' LL.D. ........ - Term expires january I, William C. Cochran .........., Irving W. Metcalf' - - - . - George B. Siddall - - Merritt Starr - .......... . - Terrn expires january I, Dan F. Bradleyf DD. .... - - - - Thomas Henderson - - Amos C. Miller - - - john H. Rogers - - .. 1Electecl by the Alumni. 29 I 922 I 923 I 924 1 925 1926 I 927 Waterbury, Conn. Oberlin, Ohio Cleveland, Ohio Lakewood, Ohio Washington, D. C. Minneapolis, Minn Chicago, Ill. Bridgeport, Conn. Cleveland, Ohio Cleveland, Ohio Kansas City, Mo. Chicago, Ill. New York, N. Y. Cleveland, Ohio Cleveland, Ohio New York, N. Y. Cincinnati, Ohio Oberlin, Ohio Cleveland, Ohio Chicago, Ill. Cleveland, Ohio Oberlin, Ohio Chicago, Ill. Brooklyn, N. Y.