Word: oberlin
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...From Oberlin: "Impossible to come East. Two horrible cases of tobacco chewing have been found right in our midst. These will require all our attention...
...public appears to be in a mood for a thorough discussion of the American college and university system, at this time. In this week's Nation, the question is again considered, Beloit and Oberlin both taking their say on the matter. The Beliot correspondent appears to have a reasonable appreciation of the true status of the subject, and advances several plausible theories as to the proper relations of the terms college and university. "The name university," he says, "ought to represent an institution where not rudiments but sciences are taught by specialists, and where the learners are responsible young...
...Nation's Oberlin correspondent, on the other hand, displays such a lamentable confusion of ideas and of statement that the attempt to answer him is rather hopeless. It is to be regretted that such petty envy and calumniation in this matter should be shown by college men of any sort. It is simply misrepresentation and misstatement to say of Harvard's system that "It dazzles us with the rich variety of electives, and, somehow, produces the impression that a student can take them all in the four years." It would certainly be a very foolish person who would receive such...
...Oberlin, good Oberlin, in the Commonwealth of Ohio, the druggists pledge themselves not to put up liquor, even in a prescription. A druggist who hadn't signed the pledge, and who put liquor in his medicine, was made the subject of an indignation mass meeting...
...students and townsmen of Oberlin have subscribed over $200,000 towards the temperance reform, now in progress at that place. A resolution was adopted, petitioning the legislature to grant to college towns the right to restrict the sale of intoxicating liquors, and also disclaiming all purpose to use violence...