Word: oberlin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ernest Hatch Wilkins, president of Oberlin College...
Scholastic glory will have more than words of praise with which to reward its seekers if the suggestion made by a professor of Oberlin College is adopted. His proposal is that a sports model roadster be given along with the traditional key to those receiving Phi Beta Kappa honors, thus making it a prize ate. More incentive to study is needed, worth the efforts of every undergradu-according to the professor, and the best way to supply it is to offer as reward-things that the student really wants...
...exercised against him? To meet his demands and the claims of prominent students in every other field the college would have to choose between bankruptey and civil war, with the odds favoring the slighted groups to come out ahead. To avoid such a catastrophe it is to be hoped Oberlin raises its professor's salary and gives him a new car in the bargain before he can put such a dangerous theory into practice...
...graduates) of U. S. private schools wonder what their old-time "Heads," "Doctors," "Prexies" and "Kings" talk about when they get together. The newspapers told something of the Princeton meeting-how the trip to England of the studious Kent School crew last summer was discussed; how Bruce Curry of Oberlin College lectured on "The Teaching of the Bible." It was easy to picture President Hibben congratulating Dr. William Mann Irvine of Mercersburg on that academy's new carillon. Exeter men could just see Headmaster Lewis Perry laughing over a chestnut with Headmaster Alfred E. Stearns of Andover. Young Headmaster...
...Meadville, Penn.: College of Wooster, Wooster, Penn.; College of Wooster, Wooster, Penn.; Kenyon College, Cambier, Ohio; Denison University, Granville, Ohio: Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio; Butler University, Duke, lowa; Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana; Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana; De Pauw, Greencastle, Indiana; Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn.; Heidelberg, College, Tiffin, Ohio; Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio; Western Reserve University, Cleveland. Ohio; Case School of Applied Science, Cleveland, Ohio; University of Pittsburgh, Penn.; Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh Penn.; Washington and Jefferson College, Washington, Penn...