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

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N interesting chiefly because it contains Oberlin College. For it is with this college, as it is in the school year 1940-41, that this book is concerned. And as far as this Hi-0-Hi may be said to have a theme, that theme is Oberlin. ' Ohio Route 10, thirty miles from Cleveland, lies the town of Oberlin. To us the town is Like most other U. S. colleges, Oberlin has a campus a campus which in the S rin is b , p g un e- lievably beautiful. It is not the campus, however, but the people-those who are here now those 9 who have been here in the past-that sets Oberlin apart To those who teach this ear was onl - - 1 Y Y one of many, and this book is not for them. To those who learn, however, this year was one of the four happiest , this book is for them. These people do more than learn, they organize. They organize mock conventions, Pan American Conferences, publications, literary clubs, in fact any group of people over five organizes some- thin . And since the l l b ' ' ' ' ' no on er a or in the corn fields, the or anize their exercise, b enterm S Y S Y S Y 5 Varsity teams in ten sports, and creating an extensive Intramural program Of course th . ' ese people carry on l1fe's normal functions, they eat, and sleep, and shave, and bathe in houses scattered all over the campus. And when they are bored with the routine, they hold pushball contest, decorate for homecoming, or just go dancing. What the people did this year, and what they do every year, the news of this year, and the tradi- tions from other years-to these is the 1941 Hi-0-Hi dedicated.

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There is a town NE hour by Greyhound from the 'theatres and department stores of Cleveland and Within bik- ing distance of the bathing beaches of Lake Erie is the sedate little village of Oberlin. In plan it is typically middle-western: a square park is the center of a rec- tangular system of streets and is bounded on one side by a business district of low, Hat buildings. Oberlin is not like other Ohio villages, however, for it is the site of a college, without which it would not exist.