The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-08-25

in her embrace all cOlors and con-
ditions of mankind ; that in the family of
our Alma Mater there are both white and
black children; that she makes no distiuc-
ton on account of color that she believes
in no natural antsgonisn of the races.
[Applsuse.l He closed with q word or two
of exhortatiOn in reference to our new duties
as citizens, developed by the close of the
war.
AIMS GIVING.
Rev. Wolcott B. Williams, of Michigan,
the last speaker, insugurated a peculiarly
o~berlin-like scene by pleading the cause of
the new Ladies' Hall, now almost complete,
for which $2o, OOO had been subscribed, but
which needed SO, 900 more to furnish and
complete it. A subscription was started
on the spot and contributions made and
announced from the stand as fast Is they
we're given, until in three quarters of an
hour 1924 dollars were contributed. Sew
eral subscriptions of two hundred and one
hundred were made, while those of fifty,
twenty-five, ten, &C., came like hail
stones.
Amid this scene the meeting adjourned
to
TIE COLLATION.
spread under the auspices of tbs reception
committee, of which Principal E. H. Fair
child is Chairman, in the new Ladies'
Hall, as yet incomplete, but sufficiently
furnished to afford avery pleasant place
for the gathering. Here came alumni n
alumnG, with their wives and husbands, TO
the number offve hundred and more, Of
sill ages, from the girl graduates of yester-
day, with the dewy freshness of youth
about their cheeks and its brightness in
their eyes, to g~rsy-haired grandsires. An,
Whist g union it was2 How many familiar
faces gathered there How wildly come
back old times, five, ten or twenty years
sgoI
At two o'clock the guests of the occasion
sat down to an ample snd luxurious cola
ton, served up to them in excellent style
by the members of the Junior and Third
Year classes. President Fairfield, of Hills.
dale, presided. An appropriate prayer Of
Thanksgiving was offered by the Rev. J.
A. Thome, and after the repast was con
cluded, speeches, humorous and eloquent
were made by the Rev. jeremiah Bntler
Rev. u. T. Chamberlain, Professor H. E
Whipple, of HillsdaIS, J. NJ. Fitch, Esq.
and Msjor General ]. D. Cox. The follow
ing toast, sent by Professor Peck, who wal
unable to be present, was read by Professor
Fairchild:
"The patriotism, self-sacri6ce and other
soldisriy qualities exhibited by the student
volunteers of Oberlin-s noble hsrves
from the seed which the supplemented
in tears, and good grain from which shall
abundantly spring, for generations Il
come, q yet pobler fruit of the true culture
in which intelligence always waits to d.
the bidding of duty"
An interesting scene followed, introduced
by Professor Ellis by a few words in refer
ence to the proposed monument to the sol
diers of 0berlin, for which two Thousand
dollars are wanted and Eve hundred hay,
been raised. We shall have more to say o
this at another time. Enough at the pres
emit to say that the matter was taken up a
once by the Alumni, and five hundrs,
dollars almost immediately subscribed.
With this characteristic elimination
the formal exercises of the reunion closed
and the gathering dissolved, each indiVid
ual therein bearing away therefrom TT
memory of q happy day, to be q joy forever
LAEcELOT.