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

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at I. g Men Stripped of Luxur Three Wise men, Cresay, McCormick, and Pager, visited Oberlin a couple of years ago to do a study in speed, looking towards a reduction in college expenses. This year came a result-the bed- making service ended. Men were now on their own to impose order on a chaos of linen and blankets every day save one when five Women with seniority changed linen and swept floors. A pink sign reading Tomorrow Your Room Will Be Cleaned heralded the coming of these maids. U peration Peters Until this year few saw the basement of Peters, the level under the rnadding crowd, unless they Were on their way to either the men's or women's bathrooms. Now this year the streamlined offices of the registrar and Dean of the College displaced the physics shop and storage areag Peters basement was open for business. But I think you'd find summer school both enjoyable and stimulating.

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Revolt of the Masses Two men with somber robes file silently across the platform. Two thousand students arise and sit down in unison. The speaker confronts a sea of upturned, inquisitive faces. Forty-five minutes later, he ends his speech to two thousand faces which he can no longer see. Irked with this weekly chapel routine, students staged a widespread revolt this fall. Feeling that evening chapels penetrated far into their study time and sense of personal free- dom, they held an Arch Seven at which they levelled their guns at the Administration. ln this mass rally they convinced ive hundred students to substitute x,s for names on their chapel slips. This revolution brought about significant changes. Afterwards no more students signed x's on chapel slips. Occasionally, however, such names as Ezra Pound, Mr. Bonaro Overstreet, and John Hancock found their Way on these smallrpieces of paper. TOP: Wild-haired, petulant jerry Seiler arouses his tight-knit party to revolt against evening Chapels during an Arch 7 last fall. LEFT: Later that evening those who could not or would not syn their names put x's on chapel slips. But the revolt proved abortive. BELOW: Assemblies will stimulate interest in problems beyond the narrow intellectual pale of Oberlin, thereby broadening the horizons of student awareness. So too, the assemblies will provide topics for general discussion by an alert student body. sw xx F . si. A.-4 i -A

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laquers Stimulate ... ! tnnrr. For Homecoming Day each dormitory attempted to construct a clever, fre- quently amusing, decoration. This day not only brought spirit but also fun to the Oberlin students. 18