... OBERLIN AND CO-EDUCATION OBERLIN AND CO-EDUCATION By ROBERT S FLETCHER Early Oberlin is best understood as the experimental college of its day For the most part the colleges of the middle third of the nineteenth century sternly resisted the assaults of innovation A monastic unworldliness and timelessness characterized the great majority they stood barrenly and stubbornly isolated amidst the pounding surf of romantic reformism Even newly-established institutions of the always-innovating West ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR HISTORICAL COMMISSION OF OHIO The following communication from Professor Carl Wittke Secretary of the Historical Commission of Ohio to members of the Historical Guild and others interested is self explanatory THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY April 12 1923 DEAR SIR-- In response to the call to the Historical Guild of the state for a conference in Columbus to discuss plans ...
... REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR A REVIEW OF THE LIFE AND THE DIARY AND LETTERS OF RUTHERFORD BIRCHARD HAYES Robert Latham the editor of the Asheville N C Citizen in the issue of that paper for May 12 1929 publishes his review of the Life and the Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes Mr Latham is a well-known journalist of the Southland He began on the editorial staff of the Columbia S C State He was afterwards editor of the News and Courier ...
... BookReviews Winter-Spring 2003 pp 38-63 PDF of Book Reveiws CONTENTS of this issue Copyright 2003 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved and Book Notes Ohio The History of a People By Andrew R L Cayton Reviewed by H Roger Grant Buckeye Women The History of Ohios Daughters By Stephane Elise Booth Reviewed by Phyllis F Field Visions of Place The City Neighborhoods Suburbs and Cincinnatis Clifton 1850-2000 By Zane L Miller Reviewed by Dan Kearns Carl B Stokes and the Rise of Black ...
... WILLIAM SANDERS SCARBOROUGH SCHOLARSHIP THE NEGRO RELIGION AND POLITICS by FRANCIS P WEISENBURGER During the years in which William Sanders Scarborough was professor and then president at Wilberforce University his scholarly activities in the field of linguistics his work and writings in the field of race relations his contributions in the areas of religious journalism and church organization and his varied public services were significant Each of these demands some consideration As was ...
... REPORT OF THE FORTY-NINTH ANNUAL MEETING REPORT OF THE FORTY-NINTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY Forenoon Session--10 A M The forty-ninth Annual Meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society was called to order by President Arthur C Johnson Sr on April 23 1935 in the Auditorium of the Museum Eighty-eight members were in attendance MR JOHNSON The minutes of the last Annual Meeting are voluminous and they were published in the QUARTERLY ...
... 472 Ohio Arch 472 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications who had an opportunity to be present at the sessions or read the reports in the public press Colonel Galbraith was elected Department Commander at the first state convention of the American Legion held in Ohio He was elected National Commander on September 29th two years to the day after he performed the act of heroism which won for him the Distinguished Service Cross His citation for this honor reads For extraordinary heroism in action ...
... AN INDIAN CAMP MEETING AN INDIAN CAMP MEETING REV N B C LOVE The greater part of the following data the writer had from Levi Savage in 1885 He was at this time old and blind but in possession of his mental faculties His memory seemed clear and tenacious I wrote down at the time what he said word for word and from this written account I draw also from government and church publications A camp meeting was held by the Christian Wyandots on the east side of the Sandusky river opposite the big ...
... Scharlott Winter-Spring 2004 pp 4-17 PDF of this article CONTENTS of this issue Copyright 2004 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved Communication Technology Transforms the Marketplace The Effect of the Telegraph Telephone and Ticker on the Cincinnati Merchants' Exchange By Bradford W Scharlott O n the night of August 20 1847 the tireless telegraph promoter Henry O'Reilly installed a Morse telegraph instrument in a small room above the meeting hall of the Cincinnati Merchants' ...
... INDEX TO VOLUME XXXVI INDEX TO VOLUME XXXVI A B Abolitionism in Ohio 193-194 DemoBaatz Capt C L Fort Laurens the crats denounce 212 Liberty League Story of the Acquisition of its Site resolutions 237 Free Soilers 240 by the State of Ohio 480-486 adpassim dress at unveiling of Boundary-line Absquatulators 278-280 295 monument 582-583 Adams Mrs Cecelia McMillen 16 Bailey Dr Gamaliel 232 Adams Charles F 250 283 Baird Prof F S 499 Adams County Ohio 133-134 Baker Phoebe 5 8 An Adventure with the ...
... 652 Ohio Arch and Hist 652 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications ber of the Committee from Dayton accompanied by a representative group of Dayton citizens who piloted us to Miami Mound where a short stop was made thence into Dayton where dinner was served and a short meeting held At Dayton we visited the Conservancy Works the Wright Aviation Field and other points of interest This closed our activities for the day There is no question that both of these trips were highly enjoyable and ...
... SUBJECT AND TITLE INDEX TO VOL SUBJECT AND TITLE INDEX TO VOL XLVIII For Index of Authors see Contents page iii PAGE ANTHROPOLOGY--STUDY AND TEACHING Gillin John Some Unfinished Business in Cultural Anthropology 4452 BACKUS FAMILY Phillips Mrs J E Ohio's Deep Roots in Connecticut 7482 The Beginning of Formal Dental Education at Bainbridge O by Edward C Mills 243-256 Benjamin F Wade and the Atrocity Propaganda of the Civil War by Harry Williams 3343 BIOGRAPHY Weisenburger F P The Personal ...
... TWENTY-FOURTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE TWENTY-FOURTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY MARCH 2 1909 The twenty-fourth annual meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society was held in the Hunter Law Society Room Page Hall Ohio State University Columbus Ohio at two p m March 2 1909 The following members were present Prof Martin R Andrews Marietta Mr E H Archer Columbus Mr George F Bareis Canal Winchester Mr A J Baughman Mansfield Mr Martin B ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews With Shield and Sword American Military Affairs Colonial Times to the Present By Warren W Hassler Jr Ames Iowa State University Press 1982 x 462 p maps notes selected bibliography index 2950 This book is the first comprehensive history of the American military past since Walter Millis's Arms and Men A Study in American Mlitary History 1955 T Harry Williams's The History of American Wars From 1745 to 1918 1981 might have claimed that position had not its author's ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States Lyndon B Johnson Two Volumes Washington DC Office of the Federal Register National Archives and Records Service General Services Administration 1970 Vol I January 1 to June 30 1968 lxix 761p A-93p index 1050 Vol II July 1 1968 to January 20 1969 Ixiii p763-1404 A-93p index 950 Most students of the United States are by now familiar with this continuing series Launched in 1957 it now covers in full the Truman ...
... MATTHIAS LOY MATTHIAS LOY Leader Of Ohio's Lutherans by C GEORGE FRY Among the names of the pioneers who labored to establish a strong Lutheran Church in Ohio that of Matthias Loy deserves a prominent place At the time of his death in 1915 he was regarded as one of the most distinguished theologians of the Lutheran faith in the United States1 and in his long and productive life he had been a Churchman of varied attainments and wide usefulness pastor professor editor author and church leader2 ...
... CATHERINE M CATHERINE M ROKICKY Lydia Finney and Evangelical Womanhood In May of 1835 Lydia Andrews Finney bade farewell to her husband as he headed for his first look at Oberlin College in Oberlin Ohio Mrs Finney and their three children would stay in Cleveland with her parents until the Reverend Charles Grandison Finney settled himself as the professor of theology in Oberlin1 Separation between the couple was far from a new experience because of the position of the Reverend Finney as the ...
... WILLIAM CORLESS MILLS WILLIAM CORLESS MILLS IN MEMORIAM The founder of an institution of merit with an assured future is peculiarly fortunate Through the early years of its growth he may struggle onward with meager means to overcome indifference and more serious obstacles but when success at last crowns a life devoted to a worthy purpose when the founder lives to see his work recognized and on every side accorded the meed of praise the satisfaction of such a triumph is more gratifying than a ...
... Annual Meeting Ohio Valley Historical Association Annual Meeting Ohio Valley Historical Association 415 may be mentioned Hugh Henry Brackenridge the author of a satirical romance entitled Modern Chivalry in which he sarcastically depicts the political conditions of his time The Pittsburgh Gazette the first newspaper printed west of the Alleghany mountains contains in its early columns a number of contributions from the pen of this versatile son of Princeton who had been a classmate of James ...
... GEORGE WASHINGTON AT THE GEORGE WASHINGTON AT THE GREAT BEND OF THE OHIO RIVER GUY-HAROLD SMITH There is a tradition that George Washington took a short cut across the Great Bend of the Ohio River in the autumn of 1770 when he made his journey to the Kanawha River Since Washington went down stream as far as the Kanawha he had to cover that section known as the Great Bend both on the down stream journey and on his return It is only logical that he might want to hasten his journey by cutting ...