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

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iZ3e0Ac0L1fec! fo CML, The l945 Hi-0-Hi is dedicated to the Oberlin that will be. lt is dedicated to the warless years that lie soon ahead of us, to the return of our many class- mates who have gone to fight our war. We await the renewed ten thousand strong Oberlin spirit, enriched by those who will return, and tempered by those who won't. We anticipate warm spring days and tweed coated men dancing at the almost forgotten all- colleges. We await the return of Delta and Embassy and the score of other men's houses that will soon be a part of our college life again. This Oberlin, this life, is a lot of things: upperclassmen taking a frater- nal and active interest in the freshman women, black, cold mornings walking to the dorms for breakfast, labs in the afternoon, the Varse with its throbbing iuke and surrealistic coffee lore mur- als and yellow fluorescent light, eight o'clocks in the dark, brews and close harmony at Pink's, Freud or Havelock Ellis, football on a cold, grey, Novem- ber afternoon, rallies and. bonfires, Cleveland on weekends for dinner and the theatre, soft-lighted formals, ser- enades under the Talcott windows, fac-

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ulty teas formal and nolsy athletlc letters the crimson and gold whute robed choirs heard from the balcony at the First Church on Sunday morning the Arh and Tappan Square lsncyclmg to the quarry for picnics and swrmmmg the ellrns stately and old etching a 'hlugree ol black agamst the clark De cernlaer shy crarnmmg and bull ses snons unto the dawn the ODA Varsity shows recs every mght and lll BE With You Where You Are All these care Oberlm In a sense, the Oberlin to which they will return But these are only catalysts frarneworlcs Oberlm s essence ms suggested by em bodied bound up In all these things These are defrnable clrcumstances In to which people are set people who love Oberlin who are its meaning lts spnrnt its ammatlng prnnclple Oberlin ns people m cn setting To those of them who will be back and to those who wont we dedncate thus HI O Hr ...- 4-,--:rf T . . . . . I I - - 1 I , . ' - ,I 0 , I - . . , , . . . r , . I . . . . . . . , , I . . 1 ' r . . . . . . . , 1 . . . . . . . . , ' f - I ' ' 1 . . . . . . I ' I I - u I , ' ' , r - n . , N 0 I L. . . . . . Y . . - - .