The Hawaiian gazette., 1884-10-15
Ohnrlin unirnr,itr

over which he presides. 1t is situated in the
village of Oberlin, county Of Lorain. and Stale
of Ohio. The Lake Shore and Michigan South
ern Railroad passes through the village, and
it is easily accessible from all parts Of the
country, eeing at present rates Of speed by rail
six days from San Francisco, one from New
/ York, twelve hours from Chicago and one hour
/ from Cleveland. 1. is a University Town. >
of about $500 inhabitants, having grown up
| with the institution, having no manufactures,
and largely dependent upon the wants Of the
institution. No liquor is allowed to be sold,
no gambling or other houses of i'll repute
within its limiis.-In short, everything is
designed 10 be done which can lie done 70
| guard the morals, and the true manhood of
character Of the 800 young people gathered
there for purposes of education Many Of the
families, OF sufficient income have settled there
for the sole purpose of educating their children
under such favorable influences
The institution was founded fifty-one wears
ago, more particularly to meet the wants of
that large class of studious young people who
earnestly seek an education, but are without
sufficient means to meet the necessary expense,
except as the fruit OF their own diligence.
Consequently every facility possible has been
placed within the reach Of the students, to en-
able them to help themselves, and every charge
made as light as possible. Its doors have
been open to all, mentally, morally and phys
ically qualified TO enter, without distinction of
race or sex, and being chiefly OF the class
| above named, earnest tor Improvement, gener-
ally OF more mature age, and wilhal Influenced
by the presence Of the gentler sex, none of the
barbarism of hazing (now being broken up in
| other institutons) has ever been known there.
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| cation. though at this day there are many new,
and some Of the old institutions placed on that
basis, particularly Michigan University
Though usually called a college have des-
isuated it University, for such is its founda-
| ton, and such it really is 1t has an efficient
Preparatory Department Of three years course,
from which students go well prepared to enter
the College Department, or Harvard or Yale or
any other college in the States, pursuing the
ordinary course of studies 1t has a Ladies'
Department with four years course, with
curriculum of studies similar to those of Mount
Holyoke and elsewhere, in the institutions
founded for women only But the ladies can
take either the ladies' or college course, as
they prefer, and many of them take the latter.
II has prosperous Theological Department,
and It has prosperous Conservatory of Music,
not second TO any other in the United States.
and probably superior to any other, except the
New England Conservatory, of the Boston
University. 1t has now in process Of erection
| for this department, the finest building ever
erected exclusively for school of music, Of
which l find the following notice in late
New York paper:
at is built Of stone, and is the munifcent
gift of DR.. and Mrs. Lucien Warner Of New
York city. When completed it will have a
| front Of $50 feet on Professor street and 100
feet on College street, and will be the finest
building ever erected exclusively for the uses
of School Of Music. 1t will contain ample
| accommodations for the Conservatory in the
way Of Offices, library, lesson and practice
| rooms, besides a fine Concert Hall, and will
be heated by steam and supplied with an Ele-
vator.
The attention of Music students is invited
to the unequalled combination Of advantages
| offered at this Conservatory: l. Its work is
carried on 10 prominently religious atmos-
phere. Its teachers are all Christian men and
women, who believe that the highest attain
mehts in music need not and should not be
purchased, as they too often are, with lapse
from good habits, or the loss of Christian faith.
2. Its instruction is Of the most thorough sort,
1t aims TO give that broad and substantial cul-
ture in music which goes much further than
the mere ability to sing a song or thrum an
instrument. 3. Its charges are very low. The
entire expenses Of student for a college year
need not exceed $500 or $3.50, and with careful
economy may be brought still lower |. Those
who wish to give only part of their time to
music, are able to pursue special studies, un-
der the best of teachers, in any of the other
departments of 0berlin College.
Over four hundred students were in attend
ance at this Conservatory last year, and it has
more applications every year for teachers, or
ganists, etc, than it can fill from graduates
The Fall term begins Tuesday, Sept. 10th,
1854"
The various literary and musical societies,
and lectures, by the mos: popular lecturers, and
musical entertainments, offer all the opportu-
mites for entertainment and Improvement that
the students can spare from their studies. On
these occasions the great hall, seating LOO
persons, is usually well filled; price of tickets
generally twenty-five cents. In addition, when
any desirable entertainment does not come 10
the town, bat TO the great city, an hour dis
tant by rail, the railway management is always
i ready to run an extra train of cars for the ac-
commodation of those wishing it, lii suffi-
eient number) and the managers of the enter
talnment SO to modify their charges, that the
passage both ways, and entertainment cost the
students only about the same as they do the
citizens of Cleveland, usually 81 rs to 81 so
each, being about the same as the usual charges
at Music Hall in this city.
As might be expected in a town built M as
Oberlin has been, largely by those attracted
| there by its educational and religious advan
tsges, and their love Of sobriety and good
order, its society is exceptionally desirable.
Probably not one householder in the town, but
would vote against any license to a liquor sa-
loon within its limits, or any other establish
ment which would be a source of temptation
to the young people gathered there tor edu-
cation.
There is no vocation of life in which Oberlin
is not honorably represented, upon the farms.
IN the workshop and counting room, at the bar.
upon the bench, in the pulpit and legislative
halls, in the executive chamber, in scientific
investigation, in the army and the navy. OF
Presidents and Professors and Teachers of
other institutions, it has furnished a large
number throughout the land, from Harvard and
Yale in the east, to the University of California
in the west; from Wellesley College to Mills
Seminary. Its influence has been felt for GOOD
throughout the country. A gentleman re-
marked TO me a few years since, that a lead
ing Union General said to him that it saved
the Union. In explanation he said that its in
tuence saved the loyalty Of Ohio, and had its
loyalty not Deen preserved, the Union cause
could not have triumphed. However this may
be, one has only to look upon its cenotaph in
the public square and mark hundred names
OF its sons, fallen in the field, to feel that its
devotion TO its cause was stronger than the
love of life.
OF 0berlin President Garfield has remarked:
81 know Of no place where scholarship has
touched the nerve center of public life SO effect
ually as at 0berlin.
In fostering the entire movement of higher
education at the west no other college CON-
pares with 0berlin. She has educated twelve
college presidents, FIVE of them now in ser
vice; one hundred and fifty professors and in
stIuctors, while a large number who labor to
enlist eastern cooperation are her graduates.
The New West education commission finds no
other such ally. Her contribution to the min
istry is unequalled: Yale sending eight; viii
liams, eleven; Amherst, twenty-five; and ODER |
lin, thirty-eight per cent. of her male graduates
into it.
Since the war 0berliu has sent into the uni
versities and schools for Freedmen ten times
as many teachers as any other school. Though |
her main force has been spent in our own land, |
the American Board finds her an efficient ally |
on foreign shores. The investigations of two |
of her sons, Professor T. V. Hayden of Wash |
ington, and Elisha Gray Of Chicago, have no / |
only promoted science, but contributed i'm |
meusely to the material interests of the coun-