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

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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

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..-..u.mh..u.u $3. 'trztgmh' e' .. a: Wmtmmum m damp. m; . ,c. . . Srocxu Bums Musmmn Bum 1939 Oberlin also emerged in the 20th Century as perhaps the most cosmopolitan college in the Midwest in terms of the far- flung geographical origins of its students. Geographical diversity began to be matched by ethnic and religious diversity starting in the depression decade of the 19305, when Oberlints combination of high'quality education, plus relatively low costs, attracted more and more students from big cities. 25