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

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1920 l; h, Whafs Wrong With This Picture? Going to Classes in Oberlin is a pleasure when one may ridr 1n mch mmmrl. Herr Ix wrn nm- 01 um pupulur ytulng cn-nL lrznim: her durm tn .1!!ch :m right u'clmk in .1 hnurimh x. prmuled tn tht' cullcuc tn curry studrnh tn murninu clzmm. SEND EUL'R GIRL T0 UIHIRH . 22

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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

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Ohio State Thm mine that IIII-Ium'uhlv mntiivl down at i'oiumhus. which lxxmtml Uber- iin m the nlnith of football fame and convinced the. country that the Crimson and hold had II high class I-lI-vm That m-Imational 85- yard march down tin- fivld iu the third qlmrh'l c-IIIIIIIIIIItiIIg in II pass to Purkhill mm the line for II touchdown IIiIl ever live in tho nwmnrios of Oberlin adhervntu. State scored six points in thi- first feII minutes of piaI'. when Huffman blocked a punt and carried the ball nvor. Ewrv OhI- rliII IuaII planed an unbeatable game which hrought dismay to the State team and silence to the State crowd. It was a great I'ictury. fairly earned. UIu-rlin made nine first downs while State was accumulating five. 1929 In line with past changes, Oberlin came close to turning itself into a university, complete with various graduate schools in music, theology, business, and science. But the faculty voted down the university idea whenever it came up. Instead, Oberlin began in the early 20th Century, during the long presidency of Henry Churchill King, to play the role it has been playing ever since with spectacular success tthough the role has always had its criticsi: that of a pre-professional liberal arts feeder school to the country's leading post-graduate universities. Wheras in the 19th Century Oberlin graduates typically headed in large numbers into the ministry or school teaching, now increasing numbers of them went on to graduate school to prepare for careers in law, medicine, social work, government service, and above all - higher education: scholarship and teaching. Two Oberlin graduates would one day receive the Nobel Prize for their distinguished research in physics and in medicine. They were not alone in their quest for new knowledge. Since 1920, Oberlin has been a larger source of students headed on to the Ph.D. than any other college in America. 23