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

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HOHIO. Uno cle los Estados de la Uni6n Americana; su nombre pro- cede de la palabra iroquesa u ,. n n .l 01170715770, que Slgmflca r10 her- moso. Estd sit. entre los 38 27' y 410 57' de lat. N. y los 803 34, y 840 49' de long. 0. de Greenwich. limitando al N. con 61 Estado de Michiga'n y el Iago Erie. al E. por el Estado de Pensilvania. a1 SE. con el de la Virginia occidental, a1 SO. con el cle Kintucky y al 0. por el de Indiana. E1 rio Ohio forma sus con- fines SE. y 50. Ocupa 61 Estado una super. de 41,040 millas cuadras. equivalentes a 107,284 ki16metros cuadros; 300 millas cuadras estaln H cubiertas por las aguas . . . de ENCICLOPEDIA VNIVERSAL ILVSTRADA. Tomo XXXIX, Barcelona. 1929

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Em-See-Em-El-Eks-Eye-Eye-Eye, as certi- fied by the Naval Observatory, and an- nounced to an expectant nation by Western Union, was proclaimed to the thronglet as- sembled in the Open Sesame Room of the Aladdin Hotel in Kansas City, Mo., by Don- ald K. CtBugsiU Noble, third trumpet in the nine-piece orchestra then doing a one- night stand there. Mr. Noble sounded a fan- fare. tLights out. Auld Lang SyneJ Where- upon, the thronglet, forty-eight Shriners and their invited guests, took the future on consignment, made inventory of any un- bartered memories. The Academic Year 19 62 -19 6 3 had be- gun four months before this, and, not being reckoned by the modihed Gregorian Calen- dar, did not end until some five months later, by which time Mr. Noble had gone back to servicing mimeograph machines. In countries north of the equator, the first half of a two-semester Academic Year was called FalPi; the second half was called Spring? Early in the Falli, of A.Y. 1962- 1963, there began a scattered migration of students across the North American Conti- nent. When these moderately youn g humans met one another in a public conveyance, they would speak, in rage and expectation, of going Backli, all insisting upon the sing- ularity of thereW Thereii meant an In- stitution of Higher Learning, an organism developed from a petrified acorn said to have been plucked from Socrates, oak. Some of these Institutions of Higher Learning were planted in great cities, others in the provinces. Some had been sown in the wil- derness. Deep Within the breadbasket of the Uni- ted States, in the ex-wilderness of Ohio, were an astounding number of institutions of Higher Learning; Hthe,M Will Rogers once said, is the enly State in the Union with more Colleges than bathtubs? These Institutions of Higher Learning were of di- verse types: commuter colleges, technical institutes, secretarial schools, agricultural and mechanical colleges, military training centers, finishing schools, state universities, missionary encampments. And Colleges of Liberal Arts. Thirty-five miles from the City of Cleveland, fifteen miles from the shores of Lake Erie, in the County of Lorain, in the old township of Russia, was a College of Liberal Arts and its town; they shared the name of Oberlin. They were, beyond re- buttal, in Ohio, and Ohio is, unavoidably is. Ohio tamed tthe stretch of lawn on which the beardhdlady sprawled for a permanent siestal , still spreads open, a withering vast- ness. Reduced to obedient fertility and standard habitation, it is yet haunted by the New World Terror: the location and proportion settlement and tillage were de- cided upon, surveyed, assumed, and beld-m towns must weigh more than their history, press like miscast brass paperweights an- choring an ancient scroll; farms show the strain of an enforced tnot an inheritedi promise, are bland with the fungoid Vital- ity of researched crops, with the final dead- ness of stalks and husks left standing after harvests: all fruit vanishes, is marketed, is bottled, is canned, is dried, is pickled, is packaged, is exported, is stored in Federal barns, is reduced to a financial statement. Every sowing is a recounting from a re- membered zero. Members of the Interna- tional Order of Odd Fellows end their yearly sing-alongs with Wire here because weire laere because we,re here because weWe . . 3i Few landscapes take kindly to geometry, and the indigines of a regularized earth must make even singing an act of sanity. Thus the province, thus the town, but thusly, by myriad careful exclusions, a Col- lege of Liberal Arts: an Oberlin in A.Y. 1962-1963: a grand duchy of enlighten- ment amidst the alien corn, an intellectual Oz, in which . . . .

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