MISCELLANY PRINTED MATTER Oberlin Review, 1883–84 OBERLIN REVIEW Volume XI. Saturday December 1, 1883 Number 7. [Miss M E Church vlonl] THE OBERLIN JUBILIEE VOLUME. I have in preparation for early publication a "Jubilee Volume" which will contain Pres. Fairchild's Baccalaureate Sermon, the address- es of Prof. Barbour, Gen. Foster, and some forty or fifty other shorter addresses, papers and poems presented at the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Oberlin Colony and College, held at Oberlin during the last of June and first of July, 1883. Instead of publishing it in pamphlet- let form, as was at first contemporary- plated, it has seemed best to put it in a more permanent shape. It will therefore be issued as a large 12mo, in good clear type, on good paper and neatly bound in cloth. The retail price will be - $1 50 Special Offer. To bring it within the reach of all who want it, and not disappoint those who had expected a cheaper volume, I propose making a special offer to those who will at once sub- scribe and send the money, to send it postpaid for - - $1 00 Early orders solicited. JUST PUBLISHED Oberlin: The Colony and Col- lege. -A history of the College and Village from its earliest set- element to its Semi-centennial Jubilee in 1883. By PRES. J.H. FAIRCHILD. Price, - $1 50 The Semi-Centennial Register of the Officers and Alumni of Oberlin College, 1833-1883. Price - - - - 75 The above books are of great in- terest to any alumnus, student, or friend of Oberlin. Sent post-paid on receipt of the price. Address E.J. GOODRICH, Oberlin, Ohio OBERLIN College Writing Depar't Nos. 13 & 13 1/2 West College street. West of the Post Office. Thorough Instructions given in Business and Artistic Penman- ship. Short Hand. Book Keep- ing, Commercial Law, Business Arithmetic, Spelling, Business Correspondence, Banking, Ger- man, Business Forms, etc. For special information call at writ- ing rooms or send for catalogue. U. McKEE, Principal. PURE DRUGS, LAMPS and LAMP GOODS, TOILET ARTICLES, Hollis;s Caramels, Choice Confec- tionery, FANCY GOODS, Oils, Perfumery, &c., at HARMON's DRUG STORE, No. 15 West College-ST. Prescriptions carefully compounded at all hours. BOOTS, SHOES, RUBBERS AT Life's, 13 West Col. Fine Shoes a Speciality STOCK LARGE. At Prices to please all. BOOKS (stamp) STATIONERY AND MUSIC FOR SALE BY EDWIN REGAL, OBERLIN, OHIO [*I represent Aelioian on Editorial Board - Page 145*] OBERLIN REVIEW VOLUME XI. Saturday, March 15, 1884. Number 13. [*Miss M E Church 11no1*] THE OBERLIN JUBILEE VOLUME. I have in preparation for early publication a "Jubilee Volume," which will contain Pres. Fairchild's Baccalaureate Sermon, the addresses of Prof. Barbour, Gen. Cox, President Hayes, Gov. Foster, and some forty or fifty other shorter addresses, papers, and poems presented at the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Oberlin Colony and College, held at Oberlin during the last of June and first of July, 1883. Instead of publishing it in pamphlet form, as was at first contemplated, it has seemed best to put it in a more permanent shape. It will therefore be issued as a large 12mo, in good, clear type, on good paper and neatly bound in cloth. The retail price will be - $1 50 Special Offer. To bring it within the reach of all who want it, and not disappoint those who had expected a cheaper volume, I propose making a special offer, to those who will at once subscribe and send the money, to send it postpaid for - $1 00 Early orders solicited. JUST PUBLISHED Oberlin: The Colony and College.— A history of the College and Village from its earliest settlement to its Semi-centennial Jubilee in 1883. By PRES. J. H. FAIRCHILD. Price, - $1 50 The Semi-Centennial Register of the Officers and Alumni of Oberlin College, 1833-1883. The above books are of great interest to any alumnus, student, or friend of Oberlin. Sent post-paid on receipt of the price. Address E. J. GOODRICH Oberlin, Ohio OBERLIN College Writing Depar't Nos. 13 & 13 1/2 West Co lege street. West of the Post Office. Thorough Instructions given in Business and Artistic Penmanship. Short Hand, Book Keeping, Commercial Law, Business Arithmetic, Spelling, Business Correspondence, Banking, German, Business Forms, etc. For special information call at writing rooms or send for catalogue. U. McKEE, PRINCIPAL. PURE DRUGS, LAMPS and LAMP GOODS, TOILET ARTICLES, Hollis's Caramels, Choice Confectionery. FANCY GOODS Oils, Perfumery, &c., at HARMON'S DRUG STORE, No. 15 West College-St. Prescriptions carefully compounded at all hours. BOOTS, SHOES, RUBBERS AT Life's, 13 West Col. Fine Shoes a Specialty. STOCK LARGE. At Prices to please all. BOOKS STATIONERY AND MUSIC FOR SALE BY EDWIN REGAL, OBERLIN, OHIO OBERLIN REVIEW. Volume XII. Saturday, March 15, 1884. Number 13. THE OBERLIN REVIEW. Published by THE UNION LIBRARY ASSOCIATION. Entered at the Post Office at Oberlin, Ohio, as second class mail matter in accordance with the rules of the Post Office Department. The REVIEW is issued each alternate Saturday of the College year. Contributions and Communications are solicited from the Alumni and students. One Year $1.50 Single Copies 10 cents Extra copies of the paper are for sale at Regal's bookstore. All Communications pertaining to Subscriptions or Advertising should be address to J. E. McConnell, Box 772. EDITORIAL BOARD Harry Ainsworth, '84, Editor-in-Chief Society Editors. L.L.S. Alma Sprague, '84 PHI DELTA. H. H. Johnson, '85 PHI KAPPA PI. L. D. Rathbone, '84. AELIOIAN. Mary E. Church, '84. ALPHA ZETA. C. H. Nye, '84. PREPARATORY DEP'T. F. B. Carpenter. TABLE OF CONTENTS Editorials 145 Personal Christian Work in Colleges 146 A Message. (Poem) 148 The State Contest 149 The Union Meeting 152 Communication 150 The Student World 154 De Rebus Temporis 155 Personals 156 The action of the faculty, in regard to commencement, has disappointed a large number of the friends of the college. We all hoped that the representative system would be adopted. The friends have become tired of the long commencement exercises that we have had. Four hours is most too long to ask any audience to sit. Three minutes is altogether too short a time for any one to express himself except in a most superficial way upon a very light subject. If there is sense in having speaking at commencement, it surely should be the best that the graduating class is able to produce. It was confidently asserted that last year would be the last one under the old system, and we are informed that the faculty voted twice to have a representative system. Yet at the last moment they changed their minds and have decided not to have it. Why was it not adopted this year? The same discussion will have to be carried on next year and each succeeding year till the representative system shall be adopted. The faculty have only postponed the discussion. The decision can not be final. So far as we are able to learn two arguments are used to support the old system. 1st. Oberlin has never had the representative system and hence conclusively ought never to have it; and 2nd. Some of the members of each succeeding senior class, who would not otherwise come on, want to speak so that their maws&paws may hear them. We must confess that were it not for our prejudice in favor of the representative system, these conclusive arguments would win us over. There was a scene at the the telegraph office the night of the State oratorical contest, which we think would have been seen in but few other colleges in this country. Mr. McConnell, our representative at the contest, was a member of Alpha Zeta literary society. There were seven gentlemen waiting for news from the contest at the office, and of these only one was a member of Alpha Zeta. The others belonged to the other societies. The next day when our triumphant orator was met at the depot, men of other societies were perhaps more prominent than those of Alpha Zeta. And yet Mr. McConnell is a great favorite with his society, and there is as much real reason for rivalry between societies here, as there is for contests between fraternities in other colleges. Now we leave it to the candid judgment of our sister colleges if this is not a better state of things than they can show under the fraternity regime. We might add here that it is held to be dishonorable to engage in any sort of wire-pulling to secure members to different societies. At the beginning of the year we determined to dispense with the exchange column and to substitute the Student World in its place. We appreciate our exchanges, and fill our column of Student World from them almost exclusively; but we see no point in grinding out week after week the same grist of "A was not as good as usual this week," "B had a good article," etc. Whatever we say about our exchanges we let them say for themselves by taking extracts from them and giving proper credit. The exchanges are all to be found on file in the U. L. A. library. The Foreign Eclectic. A monthly magazine of selections from European Periodical Literature in the French and German languages. The above is the title of a new magazine, the first OBERLIN REVIEW Volume VIII Saturday, November 20, 1880. Number 5. BOOK-BUYERS May make a large saving in their purchases by sending me a list of the books wanted and getting by return mail a price list at which they can be furnished. A large stock of SCHOOL & COLLEGE TEXTBOOKS, THEOLOGICAL & MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS, will be disposed of very cheap. Several thousand SECOND-HAND BOOKS will be sold at astonishingly low prices. Magazines and Newspapers supplied at Club Rates. Back numbers of Magazines at reduced prices. Teachers and Students of Music will be supplied with music promptly by mail or express at lowest rates. BOOK-BINDING in all styles promptly attended to. N.B.—Twenty energetic and capable Book Agents wanted to canvass for rapidly selling books, newly published and for sale only by subscription. Address EDWIN REGAL, OBERLIN, O. OBERLIN Conservatory of Music. Expenses Light, Instruction First-Class. Branches Taught: PIANO, ORGAN, SINGING, VIOLIN, & THEORY. Winter term begins January 4, 1881. Send stamp for Catalogue to Prof. F.B. Rice, Director. BY ALL MEANS CALL ON S. LIFE, FOR Boots and Shoes. Stock Immense. Repairing done by a Workman of Thirty Years' experience. MISS R. A. HOFFMAN, DRESS-MAKER, NO. 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Standard Books Cheap. -------------- Knight's Popular History of England...$3 00 Milman's Gibbon's Rome.......................2 50 Macaulay's History of England, 3 vols...1 50 Macaulay's Essays....................................1 80 Macaulay's Life and Letters........................50 Rollin's Ancient History..............................2 25 Comic History of the United States.............50 Chamber's Cyclopedia of English Literature, 4 vols..............2 00 Taine's History of English Literature............75 Works of Flavius Josephus..........................1 20 Acme Library of Medern Classics................ 50 Plutarch's Lives of Illustrious Men, 3 v., 1 50 Don Quixote................................................ 50 The Book of Fables ............................... 50 American Patriotism ................................... 50 Geikie's Life of Christ.................................... 50 Kitto's Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature, 2 vols.......... 2 00 Smith's Bible Dictionary................................... 90 The Koran of Mohammed.............................. 35 Milton's Complete Poetical Works................. 50 Works of Dante .................................... 46 Works of Virgil..................................... 40 Cecil's Book of Natural History............ 1 00 Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress.................. 50 The Arabian Nights ................................ 50 Robinson Crusoe ................................. 50 Munchausen and Gulliver ..................... 50 Leaves from the Diary of an Old Lawyer, 1 00 Pictorial Handy Lexicon............................. 25 Health by Exercise.................................... 40 Health for Women ................................... 35 Macaulay's Life of Frederick the Great, 3 Carlyle's Life of Robert Burns,............... 3 Light of Asia...................................... 5 Hughes's Manliness of Christ.............. 3 John Stuart Mill's Chapters on Socialism....... 3 Baron Munchausen................................ 5 Mary Queen of Scots' Life.................... 3 Vicar of Wakefield..................................5 Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress..................6 Private Theatricals...................................2 Stories and Ballads.................................5 Leaves from the Diary...........................3 John Ploughman's Talk...........................12 Life of Christ, by Farrer...........................50 Carlyle's Essays.........................................15 Life of St. Paul, by Farrar.........................50 Self-Culture .......................................... 20 The Idyls of the King ............................... 10 Town Geology ......................................... 15 Ethics of the Dust .................................. -------------------- Theological Books, Sunday School and Miscellaneous Books. Agent for the Books of the AMERICAN BOOK EXCHANGE. TEACHERS' BIBLES. Bibles, 25 cents. Testaments, 5 cents. MacKinnon and Stylographic Pens. For any Books wanted, correspondence solicited. E.J. GOODRICH, OBERLIN, OHIO. [?] represent Aeliorany [?] Editorial Board - Page 169 OBERLIN REVIEW Volume XI. Saturday, April 12, 1884. Number 15. THE OBERLIN JUBILEE VOLUME. -------- I have in preparation for early publication a "Jubilee Volume," which will contain Pres. Fairchild's Baccalaureate Sermon, the addresses of Prof. Barbour, Gen. Cox, President Hayes, Gov. Foster, and some forty or fifty other shorter addresses, papers and poems presented at the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Oberlin Colony and College, held at Oberlin during the last of June and the first of July, 1883. Instead of publishing it in pamphlet form, as was at first contemplated, it has seemed best to put it in a more permanent shape. It will therefore be issued as a large 12mo, in good clear type, on good paper and neatly bound in cloth. The retail price will be - $1 50 Special Offer. To bring it within the reach of all who want it, and not disappoint those who had expected a cheaper volume, I propose making a special offer to those who will at once subscribe and send the money, to send it postpaid for - - $1 00 Early orders solicited. -------------- JUST PUBLISHED Oberlin: The Colony and College --A history of the College and Village from its earliest settlement to its Semi-centennial Jubilee in 1883. By PRES. J.H. FAIRCHILD. Price, - $1 50 The Semi-Centennial Register of the Officers and Alumni of Oberlin College, 1833-1883. Price - - - 75 The above books are of great interest to any alumnus, student or friend of Oberlin. Sent post-paid on receipt of the price. Address E.J. GOODRICH, Oberlin, Ohio WRITING DEP'T, Nos. 13 & 13 1/2 West College street. West of the Post Office. Thorough Instructions given in Business and Artistic Penmanship, Short Hand, Book Keeping, Commercial Law, Business Arithmetic, Spelling, Business Correspondence, Banking, German, Business Forms, etc. For special information call at writing rooms or send for catalogue. U. McKEE, PRINCIPAL. ------------------------ PURE DRUGS, LAMPS and LAMP GOODS, TOILET ARTICLES, Hollis's Caramels, Choice Confectionery. FANCY GOODS, Oils, Perfumery, &c., at HARMON'S DRUG STORE, NO. 15 WEST COLLEGE-ST. Prescriptions carefully compounded at all hours. ------------------------------------ THE LARGEST AND BEST STOCK OF FINE SHOES In Oberlin is at Life's, 13 West Col. Headquarters for Footwear. BOOKS STATIONERY AND MUSIC FOR SALE BY EDWIN REGAL, OBERLIN, OHIO Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.