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.yl I 6859 Till If C ffi I 192:4- 4 7,174 7 4 71711171 me VUL!! rffzzzx' lbhvrlin Y rv T :' T ENEATH the superficial queerness of the early days of Oberlin E. there was a foundation of splendid qualities upon which the EXQ enterprise was solidly based. Tliere was first of all an ideal- ' 4. , ism that took no account of hardships or obstacles, that at- Qiillglg-rififlll, tempted the impossible and achieved it. There was also a L lg.f sturdy, open-eyed, clear-headed practicality, that knew how to X , 2?,., adapt means to ends, andjthat forecasted, to remarkable degree, -'f-r the political and educ' 'opal tendencies of the next half-cen- tury. There was a co X, gfefand an adventurousness that I am not afraid to call chivalric. There 'was patience, there was hope, there was stern industry, there was brotherly cooperation. There was a humanitarianism as wide as the world, a love of mankind that counted no sacrifice too heavy and no task too hard. There was an open-handed Wel- come to everything that tended to emancipate the human spirit. Early Oberlin was liberal in the Widest and freest,sense of the word. l need not remind you of the causes that here found champions and effective champions. The story has been told so often. Above all and beneath all and within all was the spirit of religion, what the Oberlin Covenant called a deep-toned and elevated personal piety, which was, of course, the motive for the whole undertaking. One may smile at the length of the sermons, but one stands bareheaded before the men who preached them and the men and women who heard them. 'It would be a pity, wouldn't it, if we accepted this heritage as a matter of course, if we lived in it without being aware of its significance, if we never saw it at all? It is this spiritual building that commands our devotion- our conscious, reasonable loyalty. lt sometimes seems to me that loyalty, like patriotism, is a little out of fashiong and it is true that under the great name of loyalty, as under those of patriotism and liberty and fraternity, many a petty prejudice and many a narrow exclusion have taken refuge. llut I think it is safe to sav that Obcrlin's loyalties have seldom been wholly un- thinking or uncritical. T'he spirit of the founders is still alive in the insti- tution they fashioned. Nor need the sons and daughters of Oberlin fear that loyalties of this sort are narrowing or exclusive. The truth is that such local loyalties tend to broaden out into a loyalty as wide as mankind. Loyalty to Oberlin is loyalty to an idea, for Oberlin is what she stands for and what she has stood for through the years. 'E.l'fI'!7!'f.Y from l 011na'c1'.r Day .'lddrc'.r.r deli-z'ercd by Prof. Clmrlvs. H. .-I. Wager. . 0L7f7 Uouxrpnuonarfruiz WKXUXB l35l
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