Word: oberlin
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...regard to the proposition to abolish the customary class-day exercises, the Oberlin Review says : "We understand that the question is coming up of abolishing the class days. Of course, in the past, there have been some reasonable grounds for objection. The principal one is, that they tend to increase the expenditures, which necessarily are becoming greater from year to year. We do not think, however, that anything which tends to develop a spirit of unity and class enthusiasm should be put down...
...students to procure better board at a less cost. It is possible to get as good board for $4 a week here at Memorial Hall as could be got at Amherst or any other college for $5 or $6. Tuition ranges all the way from $12 per year at Oberlin, Ohio, to $200 at Columbia; at Brown, Bowdoin, Princeton and Williams, it is $75; at Amherst $100, at Yale $140, and at Harvard $150. By adding to these main items of expense, other necessary items, such as clothing, fuel, washing, books, etc., we can arrive at what may be called...
...Oberlin has a number of Hawiians, Japanese, and Zulus enrolled in its catalogue...
...Oberlin seeks to gratify the visitors at the New Orleans Exposition by sending a group picture of the faculty and students. The thirteen hundred students must make a very respectable little army in the photograph, an army...
Mark Twain and George W. Cable are to give a reading to the students of Oberlin. They have been before the students of several Western colleges, we wish they would come here...