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

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As Oberlin Goes, So Goes Not the Nation is the new slogan given the students of Oberlin. First in our Mock Convention we nominate the wrong man . . . one who does not even care to run . . . and a New Dealer at that, and in the election straw vote we pick a man who got the worst licking of any president. Oberlin was Republican in a year when the country went more Democratic than ever before. But then, Oberlin has been traditionally Republican since Lincoln's day. The boxes on this D096 Compare the votes of Oberlin with those of the nation and the state. THE NATIONAL AND STATE VOTE OBERLIN'S STRAW VOTE Electoral Votes Popular Faculty Students Total l-ANDON 8 13,575,602 LANDON 58 636 694 ROOSEVELT 523 21,768,254 ROOSEVELT 54 533 587 BRICKER 184,775 BRICKER lO5 378 483 DAVEY 187,216 DAVEY 2 49 5 l

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Saturday, October 24, found Oberlin Cam- pus invaded by 900 inquisitive high school students, teachers, parents, and friends who came to participate in High School Day activities from eleven nearby states. Of these, 336 took part in the competition for scholarships, the value of which amounted to 55400. Instead of the usual intercollegiate foot- ball game, the high school students wit- nessed intramural contests, lab demonstra- tions, and an Oberlin Review. Those who cared to remain, took part in the Annual Campus Carnival which was held that evening under the big top erected between Warner and Peters. Late that evening special busses were crowded with sleepy high school boys and girls over-laden with toy-balloons, canes, and candy dolls. ' The Y. M. C. A. has held Wednesday night square dances regularly in Warner Gymna- sium in an. effort to revive interest in the fast-dying folk dances of our country- Grapevine Twist, Ducky Dive, Ocean Wave. The large attendance has attested their success. 'Ns-X During the month of October the W. A. A. made an effort to demonstrate to the students the three techniques of the mod- ern dance by the work and lectures of four artists of the modern dance, Conna Bell Shaw, Lillian Shopero, Katherine Litz, and Jose Limon.

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On the evenings of November 20 and 2l the Pirates of Penzance came to town with a dress circle and all seats reserved. This Gilbert and Sullivan production presented by the Dramatic Association brought in such large crowds that S, R. O. signs were put out for the first time in many years. The Pirates of Penzance centers around the life of a young man who, through an error on the part of his nurse, was licensed to a pirate instead of a pilot until he reached his twenty-first birthday. Having been born on February 29, he found a most ingenious paradox, he had had only five birthdays although he was twenty-one years old. But it had the usual happy ending with the hero and heroine in each others arms, and the pirates repenting their sins. Rennie Smith come to Oberlin late in the fall to talk on War and Peace. Once he called himself a politician, but because of the American connotation quickly changed his definition of himself. Dr Brooks Emeny peace author and Oberlin trustee said: The will-to-war does not exist in the European masses and German horror pictures of the Spanish War not only serve to show the superiority of the German system, but to create a feeling against war!