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Charles Martin Hall was born in Thompson, Ohio to a Congregational clergyman in 1863. Charles, a handsome, bright-eyed lad, was fascinated by chemistry. One day at Oberlin College he heard his chemistry professor say that fortune awaited the man who found a way to make aluminum cheaply. The story is that Charles nudged his neighbor, whispered: "I'm going after that metal." He hit on the idea of finding a solvent for the oxide ore, bauxite, then electrolyzing the solution, sending oxygen to one electrode, pure aluminum to the other. After graduation he cooked indefatigably in his back...
Hall was not a man to let the rewards of his invention slip through his fingers. He gave millions to Oberlin and other institutions, collected rare rugs, had a platoon of servants in his big house. Although he never drank, smoked or married, his health failed in his 40's and he died at 50 of a spleen disorder...
Willard van O. Quine, of Akron, Ohio, a Junior Fellow, has been appointed instructor in Philosophy and tutor in the Division of Philosophy and Psychology for three years, effective next September. Graduating with an A.B. in 1930 from Oberlin, he came to Harvard...
...more than a quarter-century before some newspaper friends persuaded a highly-placed official to listen to his story. Last session that listener, Illinois' Senator J. Hamilton Lewis, put through Congress a resolution to investigate Carter's claim that he was a "U. S. Dreyfus." Last week Oberlin Carter, still erect at 79, marched into a Chicago hotel room to present the case for vindication of his honor and recovery of his fortune to Wisconsin's Senator F. Ryan Duffy, as chairman of a sub-committee of the Senate Military Affairs Committee...
...Martin Davey attended Oberlin College...