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

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asf 2 '55 fs-gd tttlii Some nl Us Are in Front oi the Desks. ROM every state in the Union, from twenty-seven foreign countries come the students that make up Oberlin's eighteen hundred. As Freshmen and Sophomores, they learn to labor, and labor at their learning. They get their first tastes of Oberlin manners and traditions. Home becomes that desk in the corner of the room, and bluebook means coffee, caffein pills, or cokes to keep awake with. They fight among each other to keep alive the Frosh-Soph tradition. By the time they are Juniors, the pattern has become stereotyped. Tradition has become habit. Libe dates, coke dates, bicycles, the arb, bridge at chapel time, these are the accepted manner- isms of Oberlin. The Oberlin way. And then, all of sudden, Freshmen are Seniors. Seniors, with Recitals to give, theses to write. Swiftly the year passes, the Senior is no longer a Senior, but an individual, a citizen, ready to work, vote, settle down, marry. Then it is that he likes to look back and remember. lllay these pages help l1im.