Word: oberlin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pityingly or sneered had they seen a newspaper item obscurely printed in the press of the period. Most of them probably did not see the item, for the newspapers of 1893 gave it no large headlines, no prominent position. It related that 14 ministers, college professors and tradesmen of Oberlin, Ohio, assembled in the library of Oberlin College, had founded a society to be known as the Anti-Saloon League...
Last week five of the 14 original Anti-Saloon leaguers held reunion at Oberlin. They are: Dr. Howard Hyde Russell, associate general superintendent of the League; Asariah D. Myroot, in 1893 and at present librarian of Oberlin College; J. T. Henderson, president of Oberlin College; Andrew C. Comings, bookseller; Rev. Henry Tenney of Webster Grove, Mo. They adopted resolutions giving thanks for the 18th Amendment and the Volstead Act, called upon the U. S. people to demand stricter enforcement of them, to resist any attempt at their repeal or nullification. This time their proceedings aroused few smiles or sneers...
Fifty-nine years ago, Dr. Millikan was born at Morrison, Ill. Later at Oberlin College, he attacked Greek and mathematics with zest, took his first degree, an A. B., at 23. The next year, a graduate student and tutor there, his enthusiasm turned to physics. He pursued it at Columbia, Berlin, Gottingen. From 1902 to 1921 he charmed physics students at the University of Chicago. Since 1921 he has been Director of the Norman Bridge Laboratory of Physics at Pasadena, Calif...
...following received reappointments L. E. Mack Oberlin, 25, to continue graduate studies at Radcliffe; Dorothy Rand, Smith '26, to continue graduate study in Europe under the direction of Radcliffe; Esther Seaver, Beloit 24, to continue study in Europe under the direction of Radcliffe; G. L. Stout, Iowa '21, to continue graduate study at Harvard; Bertha H. Wiles, Wisconsin 18, to continue graduate studies at Radcliffe; G. E. Downing, Chicago '25, to pursue graduate study at Harvard...
Erwin Nathaniel Griswold 2L. of Cleveland, Ohio, was elected president of the Law Review for the coming year, at a recent meeting of the Board, thus receiving the Law School's highest honor. He graduated from Oberlin College in 1925 prior to entering the Law School, and succeeds Henry Jacob Friendly 3L. of Elmira...