Word: oberlin
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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During Justin McCarthy's visit to the United States this year, he will lecture to the students of Oberlin College on the Home Rule question...
...Oberlin has about 1300 students. Among these are 300 students in the Conservatory of Music, 250 scholars in the Preparatory Department and 60 Divinity Students. Morning recitations are each begun with prayer and Chapel is held at 5 p.m., where attendance is not recorded, but each student is put on his honor to attend. There are no dormitories but the students room in private houses. The old buildings which were mostly of brick are being rapidly replaced by handsome stone structures...
...club for this year will be composed as follows: Supreme Court, Davis, '85, Cowles, '85, (Oberlin), Gale, '84, (Yale), Hobbs, '85, Goodale, '85, Trask, '85, Storrow, '85, and W. Williams, '84, (Yale), W. C. Smith, '85; Superior Court, Anderson, '86, (Yale), T. J. Coolidge, '84, Codman, '86. Merriam, '86, R. D. Smith, '86, Hansen, '85, Nutter, '85, Sanford, '85. Messrs. Hobbs and Merriam will act as clerks of their respective courts...
...Oberlin faculty refused to allow the students to invite Henry Ward Beecher to lecture before them...
...question of intellect versus affection has been annoying the young ladies of Oberlin to such a degree that they have been holding lively debates over it in a meeting of one of the Oberlin literary societies. That such a subject should gain prominence at Oberlin, and not only at Oberlin, but among the fairer students of Oberlin, is seriously significant. The last place where intellect, as it reaches higher spheres, would be expected to disregard affection is at a co-educational institution. Indeed, the great champions of co-education find herein one of their foremost arguments; with the young...