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

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1909 TRACK TEAM- Within the College itself, the major thrust at the turn of the century was toward improvement in the rigor and quality of the . y 4 Oberlin undergraduate education. Students played a vital role in ' ' this campaign, agitating for changes to make their education more varied, more interesting, and more demanding. Admission standards began to rise along with tuition, which was up to $40 per year by 1890 and hit the $100 barrier in 1910. Meanwhile, the quality of the faculty tor at least the quality of their academic pedigreesi improved, as reverend clergymen were replaced in the classroom by a rising percentage of young, thoroughly secular Ph.Ds. The curriculum was completely overhauled and modernized, with the arrival in Oberlin of the elective system pioneered by Harvard's President Eliot. The social sciences emerged one by one, along with instruction in modern languages and contemporary literature. lxlmmm m Xru inxnmu u 19

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i .m ,3, a law .I... - EQUAL SUFFRAGE College Equal Suffrage League OBERLIN CHAPTER Presidcnl. Vice-Presidcnl. Secretary and Treasurer. Marguerite Weak FAN: J. Ballot: Mary Lindsay Once Nickemn Don Packard Elizabeth H Grace ludi'ndum thu Niclenou iMath.Rboda Eunice Fulaber Cdin Janette Willdh Stare: Gents! M12: WWW PMWolfc mwam MARGUERITE WENK C ELM KAEPPLER MEMBERS Doris Steven Rose Tm! Olive French Winifred Loomis May Fitzpatrick F lorencesKent Basie Tear Laura Ruth Pearson Anna Osborn 545d: McCoy Marie Greene Dorothy Fazrchild Edith Guy Maud Morlock Genevieve North Myrtle Andrew: FACULTY Muum MiuDur-ad GRACE LEADINGHAM Nellie Pehou Lucy Weeks Manic Walk Ernest B. Whiz: Ruth Kellogg Gnce Farrell Eugenia Palm Etith Aykroyd Luke 5. Brickley Martha Gerriah Alice Ballot: Clarissa Fairchild Rhoda McCullodz Elm Pratt Lillian Dowler Em Bailly Ptofeuor Root Professor Sinclait Profane: Miller 1919 With the advent of electric lights, reading after dark became a major undergraduate industry. The College library began its long drive under Azariah Root to become what it is today - one of the two or three best college library collections in the United States. The ethic of research and discovery now charged the campus - the idea that some things were known and some things were unknown. The trick was to push bac-back the unknown. This was an enormously exciting notion, and it transformed the meaning of an Oberlin education. 21