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

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-.ss-N W.. North . . . East . . . West . . . South went the majority of Oberlin students on December l9 . . . Back home to study . . to sleep . . . and to sleep . . . Only a handtul remained in Oberlin. The person to travel the farthest this year was Betty Roome, who went 2600 miles to her home in Santa Barbara. Hugh Hansen, who lives in Palo Alto, went 2550 miles to his home. Margaret Nichol went to Tacoma, Wash- ington, and Ellis Sprunger to San Francisco. Going by air were Julia Van der May, North Coldwell, N. J., Henry Brobst of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Barbara Hastings of Newtonville, Mass., and Eleanor Neel and Margaret Lyon planned to take a plane to Jacksonville, Florida. Taking advantage of new low rates more students went by train to their homes this year than ever before. A large number of special cars were rented by the students for Philadelphia, Baltimore, New York, and other large cities.

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i Io quote Oley Down, Jr., Conservatory senior, Rudolph Serkin's recital 'put one in a state of bewildered questioning. Yes, he does pos- sess an astounding technique, my dear, to Cluote Donald Ogden Stuart, but so does an electric piano! But the Senior Class of the C-014 was angry! We have seldom heard a DIanist's performance which so admirably CQrnbined that penetrating analysis with ar- tistic enthusiasm and warm feeling--an oc- Casion to remember. OH Tuesday night, December l'5, Artur Rod- Zinski, led the Cleveland Orchestra in a concert in Finney Chapel for the last time of the season. Shortly after Dr. Rodzinski went to New York to step into the shoes of Artur Toscanini on Feb- rl-'OVY 22 as leader of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and acted as regular conductor ot that 0l'Chestra for the remainder ot the season. Later he was appointed director of the NBC Concert Orchestra. Of Helen Jepson, young American so- prano star of the Metropolitan Opera Company who sang in Oberlin on De- cember 4, the Cincinnati Enquirer said, Miss Jepson not only has a glorious voice, but she is really beauti- tul. She is, besides, very animated, charming and intelligent-a trilogy of girls not always present in the Diva ot the concert stage.

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No wonder it always rains during Freshman Week, for here in Oberlin April is not the month of showers, but, during the school Year, it's September-so the Oberlin Weather Station tells us. Nor does it rain all the time, or even half the time, or a third of the time. Last year there were ll2 doys when it rained more than one one- hundredth of an inch. And we had l29 days that were entirely clear. Oberlin's hottest day in l936, according to records was lOl degrees in July, com- pared with the all-time high ot lO5 degrees made in August, l9l8, last year's coldest Was -l2 degrees in January, eleven de- grees higher than the all-time low struck in l9l2. l936's first killing frost was Octo- ber 28, and its amount of snow, 40.2 inches. Oberlin Weather -a distinct department of conversation-according to the weather reviewers here, is iust good normal weath- er for this part of the country, no wetter, no colder, in tact just normal. N16-, ' '-'QQT ,., t-- -- . ,--umm are x x, ' 'f so - rs-,. . .Q-