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

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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-

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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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On February 5, a member of the class of problems confronting youth saying Eco '9l and a trustee of Oberlin College, Dr. nomic tyranny is easy to control because Robert A. Millikan, the physicist, addressed of the political law which exists above it the noonday assembly. He has been a trus- but a vastly greater danger is when a man tee of Oberlin since l9l 8 and last addressed is on top of government then there the students in June, l933, at the centen- is nothing but political despotism nial graduation. Millikan spoke of the Vitamin A, valuable for its anti-infectious proper- ties and found in fish liver oils, especially those of halibut and cod, has long been sought in pure forrn by the medical profession. Two years ago Dr. Holmes and his research assistants surprised the world with a concentrate of Vitamin A which they announced at a chemical meeting in New York City. This year Dr. Harry N. Holmes, head of the Ober- lin Chemistry Department, and Miss Ruth Corbet, research assistant, announced the preparation of needle-like crystals which they believed to be pure Vitamin A. This crystalline concentrate was first obtained on November 23. li ii gl Q32 Plans S2 Na.. S T MH H P X all? D0 fogr