Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-01-18
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An OberIin Wtnter-Hsems5 Personal,
Literary, Collegiate and Austeal-
Tee winter school, &c. 81.

The winter Is Wn1stl1nR lSeu away neIe
oberlin in shrin cries through the chapel
belfry and piercing gusts around Colonial
Hall. But the busy people, citizens and
do enough 70 keep themselves
warm. This is not one of the dull war win
tiers. The Vacation School is crowded, the
Conservatory and Musical Union
are alive with concerts and ~rehearsals, and
the Business Institute is nonplussed for room
for its hocking students. Nor is it a winter
long ago, when our news items were 50
many dusky fugitiyes saved from the South
ern blood-hounds, so many oberlin teachers
and lecturers rotten-egged, tarred and feath-
cred, ridden on q rail. No! In the recent
happy summerset of public opinion, oberlin,
in common with other r~efcrmatory institu-
tons, reaps a sheave of the golden harvest.
As the principles on which she was founded
and by which she has lived and moved and
breathed, become the principleso Of the land,
the groundless prejudice against her begins
to subside. And Sc our faithful, hard work
ing and poorly paid professors are receiving
q share even of executive patronage. Prot.
Monroe left here yesterday with his wife
and family, accompanied by Miss Mary
Dascomb, for Rio Janeiro, to resume his
duties as U. s. Consul at that port We
hear occasionally, too, from Prof. H. E. Peck
who represents our Government as Consul
General at Hayti. And ever our despised
fugitive slaves, whom oberlin, in the teeth
Of a bitter prejudice, d~isenthfsIled, edu-
Gated and made over into men, are being
received with liberation, sometimes with en-
thusiasm. ]. N. Langston, Esq q colored
citizen of whom Ohio may well be proud, is
greeted by thronging and aP~plauding au-
diences in Missouri, which State he is stump
ing for freedom. Other colored 0berlin
graduates find place and favor elsewhere.
And SO, sojOurning in this new order Of
things, we are spending the winter right
merrily. "The Golden Fleece" a literary
society which fourished in the ante-war
winters and was the attraction Of youthful
~Iiterati of both sexes, has been revivifed.
Its members are not afraid to compare then
productions with similar ones Of Eve years
ago. The College Societies Library Asso-
citation furnish us occasionally with a lee
ture. Though their course is short It is bril-.
liant. Emerson appeared last Friday even
! ing, Youmans comes on Wednesday next
then follow Greeley, George Thompson
and Anna Dickinson. Next Tuesday
the Musical Union give US a winter concert
| something out of the usual course in Ober.
lin. Some Of the grandest parts of the
Messiah are to be performed, interpreted
with other more popular music. 1t will be
a success. The Musical Conservatory re-
| Gently established by Profs. John P. Nor
gan and Geo. W. Steele, is meeting with IN
expected patronage and prosperity. Their
weekly public rehearsals are largely at
tended and unanimously praised by the
lovers of melody. The third regular
term of the Conservatory commences on
the last day Of next month.
The oberlin Business Institute, which in,
cludes a Commercial, ChirOgraphic and Tel
ographic College, threatens to eclipse in the
number of students in daily attendance al
| similar institutions. Building after build
ing is absorbed by the necessities of THU
fourishing school, and still more room il
needed.
The winter school taught during the reg.
ulsr vacation by members of the college
faculty has an unusually large attendance
1t is admirably conducted this winter by
Profs. Pen6eld and Ellis, Tutor shurtlef
and Mrs. DascOmb. Everything points t.
the presence of an unprecedented number
Of students at the regular Institution on the
opening of next month.
It is to be hoped that the wealthy friends
of oberlin College will not permit any de-
crease in its fulness by reason of poverty
Just now, in the dawn of these brighter
days, its influence is needed if ever. K.
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PRoFEssoR YoUNAKs To-NIeHT.-An oul
readers in the city and vicinity are aware
by this time that Prof. Youmans will give
his far-famed lecture on "The Dynamics Of
Life" in Brainard's Hall, this evening. As
has been stated, it is the sequel of the lee
lures on THE Chemistry of the Sunbeam"
which everybody throughout the country
heard several years ego. The Professor
though a learned man, is not heavy in dis
course, but handles his subject with as much
ease and airiness as a boy plays with bub-
bles. He has the rare power of divesting a
purely scientific question of all tschnicality,
and making it popular as a novel. In style
of speech he is as demonstrative and dra-
matte as Cough, but he is not the miserable
egotist, brimful Of self consciousness, that
Cough is. His subject kindles him, and
from beginning to end of his lecture he
CLOVIS like q coal of fire and makes his au-
dience glow, too. He is scholar, poet and
orator, at once, and in his d~iscourses will
always be found the characteristics of each.
He is a wonderful lecturer, and should be
heard by all.
We have no doubt he will have an inn
mense house. For several days he has been
repeating this lecture in surrounding towns,
and with such measure of satisfaction and
success as is inevitable to a man of his
cslibre and gifts.