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There is no standing during these exercises, and the result is quiet, and an addition both to "the stock of piety," and "the stock of health." Oberlin furnishes no pleasanter sight than this daily assembling of its thousand students for evening prayers. Even in her architecture, simple and unpretending as it is, there is a recognition of the fact that girls are not boys.
On his inquiring the reason for so singular a question, he received, in substance, this reply 'Heaven will be no heaven to me, unless I have the privilege of ministering to your wants and comfort there as I have the privilege of doing here. I want to be your servant even in heaven. Now why, Helen, do you suppose that faithful old servant was so strongly attached to Oberlin?"
We have no intention of making fun of serious matters in telling the following story; we merely relate a fact. There is a rule at Oberlin College that no student shall board at any house where prayers are not regularly made each day. A certain man fitted up a boarding-house and filled it with boarders, but forgot, until the eleventh hour, the prayer proviso.
Away from the plains of Kansas comes the cheering words of the thirteenth: "A troop of merry children; good health, and a happy home." The fourteenth writes: "Why do you ask if I am sorry that I studied at Oberlin? It is the subject over which my husband and I can grow enthusiastic at any time. My health impaired there? No. We hope to send our daughter soon."
Almon Emrie while superintendent of the Ingersoll Sargent Drill Company, of Easton, Pa.; the mnemonic system of order numbers invented by Mr. Oberlin Smith and amplified by Mr. Henry R. Towne, of The Yale & Towne Company, of Stamford, Conn.; and the system of inspection introduced by Mr. Chas.
Siemens used gas, distilled from coal and burnt in his well known regenerative furnace. Deville experimented with petroleum on two locomotives running on the Paris and Strassburg Railroad. Selwyn experimented with creosote in a small steam yacht, and under the boilers of steamship Oberlin. Holland experimented with water-gas in the furnace of a locomotive running on the Long Island Railroad.
Nor are we to suppose that the best average education for the present girls would show just the same average in direction as the best average education for boys. Oberlin, the oldest experiment in co-education at college, arranges its plans with especial reference to the average differences between the quantity and direction of the school-work at present demanded for men and women.
A Quaker carpenter who studied five years at Oberlin College, he took up electrical invention, and brought out many ingenious devices in rapid succession in the telegraphic field, including the now universal needle annunciator for hotels, etc., the useful telautograph, automatic self-adjusting relays, private-line printers leading up to his famous "harmonic" system.
Elisha Gray was born in 1835, in Ohio. He was a blacksmith, and later, a carpenter. But he was given to chemical and mechanical experiments rather than to the industries. When twenty-one, he entered Oberlin College, remaining there five years, and earning all the money he spent. He devoted his time chiefly to studies of the physical sciences. As a young man he was an invalid.
"I speak what I think is truth; but of course, when I express ungracious facts I try to do so in what will be regarded as not a nasty manner," said Tyndall, thus using that pet English word in a rather pleasing way. In his statement that the prayer of persistent effort is the only prayer that is ever answered, he met with a direct challenge at Oberlin.
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