The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1877-08-16

oberiin College has Just held ita Forty-Fourih
Annual Commencement slK year more and
u will celebrate its semi-centenniai. Thosr ~
Us who rcmombcr when u was founded. about
a. well we rcnfembcr anything that hap
pened "bcforc the war" are surely growing
old. The Early students have been arndinE
their own childrcn here to school for a dozen
years and more. ~ will not be long before the
chiidrcns children begin 70 be sprinkied Ia
amonx the graduates.
Your county always has a good many repre-
ssniatives among the ten or twelve hundred
students that gather here every year. and n few
notes about college matters may interest your
readers.
The graduating classes ihis ysar numbered
hfty- -four-nine from theology, twenty-five
from college. twenty from the literary e0uise.
and three nom the Conservatory of Mu.io
Two young ladies took the degree Of Bachelor
Of Arts. after sven years of classical study.
O'-sriin IL quite IN the way OF thinking for
itself In political matters, bot ~ appears that
the graduates to man vote the Repubiican
ticket-and TO a woman ratiiy u. suppose. OF
the college graduates, sfN go into the ministry.
six into the law, two into teaching. two Into
medicine. Six asc undecided. with the chance
that the ministry gets several OF them.
Commencement went OF most pleasantly In
spite Of the railway strike. that kept away
There were ten full days Of public examina.
tions, society anniversaries. addresses aud Erud.
uating exercises. and abundant cvidence in eli
OF them that Obcriin siiit holds ita students 10
thorough work Ia their studies and teaches
them to think for themselves.
The choice music az all the exercises and the
two delightful concerts by the Musical Union
Of a hundred trsinea sinEers-in one OF which
the entire onatorio OF the Creation was rrnder-
which - done by the Conservatory of Music.
Il has had over two hundred students the past
year. Almost It's entire corps of teachers add
10 other superior qualifications Cor their work
tie advantages Of a training ~ the best musicai
school In the woTld-the Leipzig conservatory.
IL was announced that this was the last Com.
mencrment that would be held in the heat and
dust Of August. Hereafter there viii b. a win
ter tenn, with the long vHealion In summer.
and Commencement will come early IN Jane.
This will BE- an equal accommodation 10 thos-
young men. who wish 10 work at home sun
mers ana 80 Ia school In the winter aud 20 ths
young women, who wish TO study winters and
teach summers.
students In the regular course. who need %
teach winters TO holp meet their expenses viii
BE- afforded special faciiities for studying Ia the
summer aud keepinE up with their cias.es-
The fsli term opens sept. u, and the winter
term De- 4.
The endowment Of obcriln IL painfully inad-
equaie for university that oducatos over
thous ,nd studenisa year-not - large. indeed.
as that Of some academies that do not have a
HUNDRED students. Its charges % students, too.
are very low-lower. u mistake not. than that
Of any other ctiicEc In the land oncrinE equal
facilitlca. It's cndsuvor II % pot an education
iu rcach OF any young man o. woman, how.v-
er poor. who is wide awake. industrious and
economical. Tho entire charge Cor tuition. in.
eideutai and library fees h only 81 year.
Board of very fair quality with Furnished foom
can be had ia private families a. low ~ " 90 a
week. Not a few students manage 10 sarn |
enough 10 meet all their expenses a. they 50 |
aiong-though one needs exira piuek and good |
health 10 do that aud not suffer In scholarship.
These low charges and this small. endowment /
involve the college every year IN deficit Of
ire m eight TO ten thousand dollars. Last y, ar /
In spite u the hard times, the entire sum wus
raised among the friends Of the college aud q |
hopefully isocs the big job of raising the same
amount next year.
with a full corps OF experisnccd. nrst ciass
teacher in All departments aud . hizh standard
scholarship; with unusual religion. advan-
iagc. aud freedom from trmpiaiion-ihrrs
lsnT a single saloon OF billiard rom with
several miles of the coiisge; with nns libratiss.
cabinet, apparatus, and Ey gymnasium; with q io-
cation oi marked health fuihcaa aud with cH.
peusss 10 low that even seii--upporiinE stu
dents can enjoy all OF its advantages. obcriin
s nksly 20 continue an attractive plaos for
youns men aud women, who want good edo.
-ttion aud no wild oat- in "a.
Last year u gathered iia studcnts, not only
from thuty-thrcu different rtstcs aud Terrific
rie- in our own land, but frum Ear on homcs Ia
England. Bulgaria, sam, Japan aud the sand
xich Islands. J.nP.M.
nuEuIHg Ana a iH7T.