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

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Both old and new dorms were suddenly vacated in favor of the waiting room at the Health Service when Asian 'flu hit Oberlin this tall. Harkness is the haven for senior girls who wont built-ins and a short walk to class. But Johnson-which could have come straight from a Charles Addams cartoon-offers to sophomore girls enormous rooms, a lovely lawn, and accessibility to the Arb.

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Private houses, with their home-like touches and quiet atmosphere, vie with . . . Oberlin Perspective: O i Housmg Normally when someone asks me Why do you prefer to live in a private house? l am hard pressed to give him a reply that is both candid and honest, unless he's a friend of long standing. To you hundreds of dormitory dwellers, I admit l've envied you as l've seen your ivied campus, your six sinks in every bath- room, your built-in bureaus-but l and my fellow avant-guardsmen have voluntarily forsaken Oberlin's much-talked-about gracious living to live in an at- mosphere that is the closest approximation of a home possible here. Yes, we envy you-but we don't envy you when the maid comes to clean our rooms twice a week, when our housemother serves us pancakes, hamburgers, and coffee, when we and our dates are invited to watch television, when we cook our Sunday morning breakfast or make ourselves a midnight snack in our private kitchen. What we lose in col- lege spirit we compensate for in quiet atmosphere, in solitude, and in the generally close and harmonious atmosphere that prevails in a dormitory that houses only eight boys. -Tom Shepard . . . large men's dorms, noted for organized spirit and modern conveniences.

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May and Baldwinz Four Class Dorms Four class dorms, the newest hybrid on campus, have proved highly successful in their first year. Despite the fears of housemothers and seasoned junior residents, the freshmen not only bore up under the pressure of living with upperclassmen but enjoyed it. As proponents of interclass living had long pointed out, freshman buoyancy, sophomore cynicism, junior purposefulness, and senior outside-worldliness form a strictly winning combination. ln particular, fresh- men got to know more of what was going on around town, seniors escaped the sterile atmosphere of senior dining halls, and everyone got on the interclass dating bandwagon. The most tangible sign of the success of the four class dorms is that they will be continued next year lone hopes ad infinituml. For those who lived or ate at May and Baldwin this year, however, the intangibles were far more important, May and Baldwin were fun in I957-58. -Lucile Peake Elmwood boys get this view of Moy-with girls from all four classes! There's no class line here! Junior Evvie Jacobs and freshman Nancy Quallich watch TV together in Baldwin,