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Partial View Oberlin by H. Alonzo Pease, 1838 "'Oberlin' was an idea before it was a place." [13]: 12 It began in revelation and dreams: Yankees' motivation to emigrate west, attempting perfection in God's eyes, "educating a missionary army of Christian soldiers to save the world and inaugurate God's government on earth, and the radical notion that slavery was America's most horrendous sin ...
The designation Ohio Five first appeared in Ohio newspapers in the early twentieth century. The grouping, predating any formal agreement, was immediately adopted by the press as a foreshadowing of an Ohio league of schools with similar academic and athletic reputations, which at the time was a common perception.
The Oberlin Group of Libraries is a consortium of American liberal arts colleges, led by a board elected from its members' libraries' directors. [1] The group evolved from meetings of college presidents in 1985 and 1986 at Oberlin College . [ 2 ]
Ruth Hardy (BA, 1992), member, Vermont Senate [42] Myron T. Herrick, 42nd governor of Ohio [43] Richard Hodges (1986), member of the Ohio House of Representatives, 1993–1999; Alfred A. Laun Jr., Wisconsin State Senator; Jen Metzger (1987), County Executive for Ulster County, Former New York State Senator; Eduardo Mondlane (1953), Mozambican ...
The current main library in Mudd Center opened in 1974. The Oberlin College Library, under the direction of Library Director Eileen Thornton, was a founding member of OCLC [3] and under the direction of Ray English was the first independent college library to join the OhioLINK consortium.
1902 – The Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC) was founded. Charter members included Case Institute of Technology, Kenyon College, Oberlin College, Ohio State University, Ohio Wesleyan University and Western Reserve University, beginning the 1902–03 academic year.
The Oberlin Collegiate Institute was built on 500 acres (2.0 km 2) of land, founded in 1833 and became Oberlin College in 1850. In 1867, two years after the Oberlin Conservatory's founding in 1865, the previously separate Oberlin Conservatory became incorporated with the college on a similar grant.
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