Report of Board of Directors of the U. L. A., for the From Mr. Crook for one dozen pens. Report of Chairman of Book Committee of Books added during half year. 5. Life of George Washington, J. Marshall; given by Mr. A. S. Root. 1. Critic, volume V. 1. Dial, volume VI. 1. XIX. Century, volume XIX. 1. North American Review. 3. Oberlin Review, volumes 10-11, 12-13. 13. 1. Oberliniana, Shumway and Brower, given by Miss Brackett. Whole number of volumes added during half year, 13. 08 01 Received as a gift to the U. L. A. from student H. M. BRACKETT, Librarian Pro. Tem. 64 Total Credits... $263 75 Balance due from Treasurer.. Respectfully submitted, H. C. KING, Chairman Book Com. ...... To amount from former Treasurer. lectures...... matriculation fees. Total... .$413 15 929 95 141 60 98 09 173 93 drawn 64 13 2842 .$1756 72 Treasurer. .29 $1384 26 $ 53 65 596 37 680 69 53 55 $1384 26 Respectfully submitted, HELEN J. WHITE, Clerk of the Board. The Shakespeare circle will meet next Monday evening, at Mr. Edwin Regal's on Forest street. Macbeth will be read. The college are having blank cards printed upon which to record the measurements of the students. There will be no charge this year. The Metropolitan club entertained a few of their lady friends, giving a sumptuous dinner at Wild Wood Lodge, on the evening of December 13th. The contents of the January Eclectic will please its readers not only from the special importance of some of its articles, but from their variety. This being the first number of the new volume, it contains a fine steel! engraving of Milan Cathedral. "Stepniak," the Russian revolutionist, has the place of honor in a paper on "The Moujiks and Russian Democracy," which casts much light on the internal politics of Russia. Prof. Sidgwick's article on "Economic Socialism' is a valuable contribution to the labor discussion. "Democracy and Taste" is the caption of a discussion of how far the rule of the many" affects the development of the more refined branches of art and literature. There are severPhi Delta, will meet next Friday evening in Profesal purely literary papers of great interest in the num-sor Churchill's recitation room in Peter's Hall. This is ber, among which special attention may be called to because of the dedication exercises Wednesday eventhose entitled "Sir Samuel Ferguson," "Gustave Flauing. bert and George Sand," "Henry D. Thoreau" and "Chaucer and Boccaccio." The Countess of Jersey contributes a very racy article on “Our Grandmothers,` and Lady Dilke has a paper sketching the history of "The Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in France. Most people will turn with eager interest to A very interesting public discussion was held last the timely article on "The Rulers of the Balkans," and week by members of the Theological Seminary upon the also to the strong paper on "England versus Europe, question as to the application of the Christianity reby "Diplomaticus." Other highly readable contribu- quired to cope with the Heathenism in our large cities. tions are the "Gastronomic Values of Odors," by Henry T. Finck, "The Philosophy of Dancing," and "Will We wish to make a correction to an item which appearCulture Outgrow Christianity?" There are several ed in the columns of the REVIEW respecting the speakagreeable light contributions, and the number may beers for Union Preparatory quarterly.-Mr. Kimball is praised as containing a most varied and entertaining the Essayest, and Mr. Meal the Orator from Cadmean. feast for thinking and cultivated readers. As this is the first number of the year, lovers of solid and useful reading will do well to subscribe to the Eclectic at once. DE REBUS TEMPORIS. (Students will confer a favor, and will add much to the interest of the REVIEW, if they will jot down any class or local item which they judge will be of interest, and hand it to any of the editors, or deposit it in the REVIEW BOX in the College Chapel.) Ball, of `89, resumes his studies this term. ture. A dull old lady being told that a certain lawyer was lying at the point of death, exclaimed: "My gracious! Don't even death stop that man's lying?"-Yale Courant. We learn that a German chemist has succeeded in making first rate brandy out of saw dust. We are friends of the temperance movement, and want it to succeed, but what chance will it have when a man can take a rip saw and go out and get drunk with a fence rail.-Ex. News was received last week that the Trustees of Oberlin College had secured a judgment, by default for the amount of $2,061.32, against the Buckeye Mutual Fire Insurance Company. This company held a risk on the Ladies' Boarding Hall. The last Thursday lecture was delivered by Professor Frost upon the subject "Who Abolished Slavery. The lecture was one of the strongest Third Party speeches we have every listened to. The Professor traced the growth of the Free Soil and Republican parties illustrating their progress by a clearly constructed chart. Few persons listened to the lecture Next Thursday is the day of Prayer for Schools and the Prohibition for the Republican party. Although upon an old and much talked of theme, the lecture deMr. Washburn introduced the Metcalf bill in the served and had the closest attention of the students. House last week. By request of the faculty, a meeting of the oratorical Sixty-six persons united with the Second Congrega- association was held Thursday afternoon at 1:30 in No. tional Church at the last communion. 10 French Hall. The meeting was called in order that Don't miss the Oratorical Contest next Tuesday even their desire that the Home association withdraw from the faculty, through their committee, might express ing. It will be an unusually close one. the State association and that the Home contests be Miss Lillian Paine, of Detroit, a former member of discontinued. The views of the faculty were presented '88, spent several days in town recently. There are over thirty in the gymnasium class which meets at 9 o'clock in the evening, and still more appli by Professors Frost, Monroe, Ellis, and Hall. No action was taken by the association, except the appointment of a committee which consists of the following gentlemen: Hendee, Carpenter, G. L. Smith, Kofoid and Lambright. This committee will report at a meeting of the Association a week from next Monday at 1:30 J. H. Smith of '87 was elected vice-president of the, P. M., in the gentlemen's society room. Let all the Oratorical Association at a meeting held last Monday members of the college department turn out at this evening. meeting. cants. PERSONALS (Alumni, students, and especially class historians will confer a items as they think will be of interest to the readers of the REfavor and add to the value of this department by forwarding such VIEW, to Personal Editor, REVIEW, Box 941.") The U. L. A. Board held its Semi-annual meeting the beginning the growth of the Home Rule Party, as last Saturday afternoon in the gentlemen's society well as giving the principal features of Irish History, room. The books of the financial officers were audited. and we think few speakers could have covered as much Miss Brackett in her report as Libranian reported in ground and have made the points of interest as clear as regard to the general condition of the library, and of- he did. He considers the success of the Home Rule fered several suggestions which were adopted by the Policy certain but thinks the measure is as likely to be Board. The books are catalogued except about two- secured through the Conservatives as through the Libthirds of the works upon Theology. Half the shelf caterals. alogues, the accession books, and the arrangement of the cards in the catalogue yet remains to be done, so that the work cannot be finished before summer. As the books lost and found no inventory has been make since the report of last year. When the new accession book is written it will be known how many books have been lost so that it would not be worth the time to make an inventory now. Miss Brackett also presented a suggestion made by Mr. Root, which recommended that all reference books, except art books, which have not hitherto been drawable should be allowed to be drawn outside of reading hours. This was also adopted. The dedication of Peters Hall will occur Wednesday, January 26. From the following program it will be seen that part of the exercises will be held in the Second Church--those of the afternoon; while supper and short speeches will be served in the Hall later in the day. About 800 invitations will be issued, this being the number the Hall will well accommodate, though everybody is at liberty to enjoy the exercises of the afternoon. Much credit is due the Committee having the matter in charge for the well arranged order of exercises which is promised for next Wendesday. DEDICATION. Yale College church, has lately preached in that pulpit '59 O. C.-Prof. W. M. Barbour, D. D., pastor of the two able sermons in refutation of the argument of future Probation, which commanded the close attention of his audience. The argument was urged both on philosophical and Scripture grounds.-Congregationalist. '65 O. C.-'67 O. T. S.-Rev. Wm. Kincaid, New York Secretary of the A. B. C. F. M, addressed the students (in Hartford Theological Seminary), and in the evening of Jan 6 he spoke at the Center church, presenting in an interesting and attractive way the attitude of the church toward missions. Mr. Kincaid has shown himself master of his subject.-Congregationalist. '67 O. C.-R. I. Cross, formerly Principal, was installed at West Denver, Col., Dec. 30. He has been pastor of this church since '81. '67 O. C.-'70 O. T. S.-The church in Austin, Minn., Wednesday afternoon, January 26, at 3 o'clock, in the Second C. E. Wright, pastor, recently received thirty-nine Church. members. '70-DIED: Alta Ford Hills at her home in Allegheny, Pa., Aug. 20, 1885, after an illness of only three days. She leaves a husband and three children. '73 0. C.--'80 0. T. S.-The church at Cora, Kansas, Rev. H. F. Markham, had a pleasant gathering and roll-call of its members, Jan. 1, which was followed by the preparatory lecture. The meeting was continued all day.-Congregationalist. '75 0. T. S.-Rev. George Hindlay is doing excellent work as pastor of the church and principal of the academy at Weeping Water, Neb.-Congregationalist. '78 0. T. S.-S. S. Grinnell, of Rochford, Ia., is called to Lancaster, Wis. '78 O. C.-'81 O. T. S.-I. W. Metcalf, Eastwood Tea and Coffee will be served in the Amphitheater, on the second church, Columbus, has just paid a long standing debt. floor. The church has engaged a lady as a general city missionary.--Congregationalist. '79 O. T. S.-Rev. J. B. Renshaw, Plainfield, Minn., has been holding special meetings with good results. '80 O. T. S.-Rev. E. C. Evans, pastor Pacific church, St. Paul, received a Christmas gift from his people of $100 in gold. '81 O. C.-'84 O. T. S.-Robert Lindsay is called from Ironton, Ohio, to York, Neb. W. I. Wells, Rathbone and Freeman, of '84, are all engaged at Hopkins Academy, Oakland, Cal., while E. L. Hotchkiss is at the Sackett school in the same city, and they frequently hold an '84 reunion for a game of lawn tennis. Volume XIV. Tuesday, February 1, 1887. Number 10. THE OBERLIN REVIEW. EVER since the founders of Oberlin cradled PUBLISHED BY the infant institution in the trackless mud, it has been a matter of congratulation to THE UNION LIBRARY ASSOCIATION. parents that they might send their children matter. DR EDITORIAL. im here without subjecting them to the temptations which are inevitable in colleges situated in large cities. It may be that our authorities. presume a little too much on the numerical smallness of our population, and the quiet and orderly disposition of our inhabitants. A few little matters of municipal police regulation might perhaps be introduced with advantage. It is a credit to Oberlin that she can get along without any police interference, but the condition of the streets Saturday evenings should be improved by ordinances or by creating a special police force for the occasion if necessary. As a matter of fact, crowds of loafers hang around our principal street corners in a way which would not be tolerated in a reputable street of any well regulated city. Of course, we have this advantage, that there is no danger of actual violence as would be the R. HUTCHINS, in his happy congratulacase with a corresponding crowd in a great tory remarks, the other evening, struck the city, but it is atrocious to expect unaccomchord which reverberated in the heart of every panied ladies to make their way through such college boy, and won for him the friendship of a crowd of loafers, as many members of the all those who had not already made his acchoirs are compelled to do every week. What rowdy element there is in Oberlin is very sure quaintance. A new gymnasium is the next thing which to make its appearance on this occasion, and the college must provide for. Its need is into make itself exceedingly odious to foot travelers. We should not be content with the fact perative, and all, Faculty no less than students, that they have never molested any one, but enare thoroughly awake to. its demands, and we deavor to put an end to the nuisance as soon as venture to predict that, with the Faculty having abandoned the notion that the buck-saw and possible. The College students can contribute wood pile is the model physical culture for their part by abstaining from loafing themselves. these later days, and with the students clamor-This much they owe to their own welfare as ous for a more thorough system of training in well as to the preservation of the good order this direction, and discontented with the present should take measures to complete the reform. of the community. The town authorities equipment, and with Dr. Hutchins to speak telling words in its behalf, ere we have completed our Seminary course, we shall be in possession of a gymnasium which will eclipse anything of the kind in all the west. UR Oberlin audiences are justly praised OUR for their appreciativeness and good behaviour, but there is one point in which at change would be of great improvement. At the contest we noticed that the music the kindly feelings existing between the genwas made a cover for conversation, and the buzz tlemen of the Preparatory Department and the of many tongues made the choicest selections college boys, that we are compelled to map out almost inaudible to those who were desirous of an entirely new course, as there is no precedent listening. This is as impolite to the musicians by which we may be governed. as it is unjust to the music-lovers. The music is the portion of the programme which must suffer most by any such carelessness of behaviour. It is one test of a good orator to be able to subdue the most turbulent crowds, but we never yet heard of a male quartet that could quell an audience bent upon whispering to its feminine neighbor. It certainly does not lie within our province to call in question the wisdom of the committee who gave out the invitations for the banquet. Everyone who was present and went through the ordeal of getting his supper is painfully aware of the fact that another struggling soul added to the crush would have been quite sufficient to put out the little breath of life that remained in him after running the gaunt Strangers from other institutions, even those from the largest and most famous Universities let. of the country, invariably express their aston- It would seem, however, to an outsider and ishment at the Oberliu music. Neither Har- unbiased observer, that if, after due consideravard nor Yale, neither Amherst nor Ann tion, the authorities had determined they Arbor can compare with us in musical ad- could not entertain all of the members of the vantages, and it certainly does not speak well Thelogical Seminary, the Preparatory Departfor our cul ure that the music which we have ment, and some others, it was the fitting been at so much trouble to secure for an ex-thing for the uninvited to quietly submit to the ercise should be practically spoiled by the decree, and conceal as best they could their thoughtlessness of a part of the audience. The chagrin; and not to enter upon a course of resame is true to a lesser degree of our quarter-bellion and reviling. lies, and the abuse should be reformed. Let us "In ye olden time" when we were children, not degrade music by making her a foil to her sister, music of oratory. If singing is not worth listening to, let us dispense with it altogether. It is an insult to a preformer to invite him to play or sing and then not pay the slightest attention to his labors except to reward him with a hearty encore-so that we can whisper a little longer. Even the rights of that humble server of the muse, the player of the organ voluntary, should be respected so But if, in spite of all old laws and traditions, far as is compatible with getting the audience the gentlemen of the Preparatory Department, seated. A little attention to this matter would in the late instance, were still rebellious, and if, make a very preceptible increase in the pleasure through the kindly aid of an elder brother, a of those who attend with the purpose of hear-score or more of them were admitted, on one ing the music as well as the orators. Verbulum pretext or another, to the scenes of festivity, sapienti-the Senior understands. besides being encouraged and winked at in other rather bumptious proceedings by the WE and were obliged to wait while our elders partook of viands, on festal days, we well remember how our least murmur of disapprobation at such a proceeding was quelled by a vinegary old spinster aunt, who would invariably, in harsh accents, throw at us this crumb of comfort, "every dog has his day," and we doubt not that the sime venerable crumb is still extant to comfort and soothe. E regret exceedingly that it fails to our same elder brother, and if out of these proceedlot to comment upon the only disagree-ings the trouble grew, it follows that the bulk able feature which served to mar the dedicatory of the blame rests upon the shoulders of the exercises on Wednesday last. elder brother. So rarely does there occur anything to ruffle Far be it from us to exculpate from all charge |