Word: oberlin
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Fire was discovered, Friday night, in the third story of the ladies' hall connected with the college at Oberlin, O. The building is a four-story brick, containing about 150 rooms and 250 girls. A wild panic ensued among the girls. Some rushed from their rooms in their night clothes, others shrieked and fainted, while a few were badly bruised by falling down stairs. Many of the girls were taken safely down the front stairs, but a few were driven back to the upper landings owing to the flames blocking up the passage. Several of the terrified young ladies were...
...Oberlin students who were suspended for attending a performance of Richard III will be reinstated on promising to abstain from the theatre in the future...
Harvard is still the largest college in the country; Oberlin comes second, and Columbia has fallen to third place; Michigan is fourth, and Yale fifth...
...Collegiate Alumnae." The object of this association, as expressed in its Constitution, is "to unite alumnae of different institutions for practical educational work." The regular members, 420 in number, are women graduates from the academic departments of Cornell, Michigan, Wisconsin, Boston, Wesleyan, Kansas, Syracuse and North-western Universities; Oberlin, Vassar, Smith and Wellesley Colleges, and the Mass. Institute of Technology. Four regular meetings of the association are held during the year in different cities. The members live scattered through thirty states and territories, and thus the work is necessarily accomplished mainly by means of special committees and distribution of circulars...
...supreme court of the Thayer Club is Crocker, Davis, Hayes, McKelvey, Sturgis, Gammell, Beal and H. B. Cabot. The superior court has taken on six men as yet, Baldwin, Hobbs, Williams, Davis and Gardiner, of Harvard, '85, and Johnson of Oberlin...