Word: oberlin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...escape farm drudgery, not by loafing but through such rational adventures as peddling dinner bells and lightning rods. Grade school and high school he was encouraged to attend, but he had to teach country school and write newspaper fillers until he saved enough to begin working his way through Oberlin College. Followed three years of study in a Cleveland law office, and then, 24, he was admitted...
...weeks' duration, will take students to most of the interesting geological points of Europe. Replacing the annual expedition to mountains of America, it will count as a full course for all students in the University participating. The party, consisting of men and women from Mount Holyoke, Northwestern, Oberlin, Clark, and M. I. T. will hear daily lectures aboard ship, but will, in addition to the work required, have an opportunity to see many points of interest in the countries traversed...
...Oberlin College, at Oberlin, Ohio, went Dr. Ernest Hatch Wilkins, leaving the chair of romance languages at the University of Chicago. He succeeds Dr. Henry Churchill King, now president emeritus of Oberlin...
Sirs: I wish to call to your attention a couple things you omitted in TIME, July 4. Under new presidents you mentioned our neighboring institution, Oberlin, but over looked the fact that Denison also has a new president, Dr. Avery A. Shaw. Also, under "Kudos" "honorary degrees" [TIME, June 27] you neglected to mention that Wilberforce University, Wilberforce, Ohio, a colored institution, had given our Honor able Mayor, William Hale Thompson, an honorary degree, by proxy. THOMAS N. PARKS Denison '28 Granville, Ohio...
...chief adviser, to study alloys. Game. Dr. Charles Holmes Herty of Manhattan proposed a game for undergraduate chemists-let them try to find new uses for the many strange derivations that analysts have obtained from petroleum and other raw materials. Gassing a City. Dr. Harry Nicholls Holmes of Oberlin College (Ohio) took up the chemist's brief for gas warfare. He suggested that some city of perhaps 10,000 population be given about as much warning as it would get in wartime, that gas masks and other protection be provided for the citizens and "possibly . . . horses," that the city...