This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ...your very presence." "The kindness of his manner and the graciousness of his features," says Ellen J. Mason, "have remained a blessed memory to me." And says Rev. E. S. Williams, " Well did a little fellow speak the thought of many of us when he said, --' As I looked around in church and saw President Fairchild's face ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ...your very presence." "The kindness of his manner and the graciousness of his features," says Ellen J. Mason, "have remained a blessed memory to me." And says Rev. E. S. Williams, " Well did a little fellow speak the thought of many of us when he said, --' As I looked around in church and saw President Fairchild's face this morning I thought how the Saviour must look.'" Several incidents in a preceding chapter have indicated that President Fairchild was not weak in his good nature. The responses from the Alumni which compose the closing chapter will call attention to sevcral occasions when his soul was stirred by the discovery of moral baseness in the college world. Others refer to a scene in the seventies. It had always been a great source of satisfaction to those who had known Oberlin that the college had been free from every phase of hazing. Now, after ten years of President Fairchild's administration, there occurred an annoying case of the use of tar paint. It was not the result of class rivalry, but the attempt of a few to impose forced humiliation upon one who was distasteful to them. No one of those who witnessed the righteous indignation of President Fairchild in the chapel when he announced the outrage will ever forget the scene or think of him as good naturedly weak in his care for principles. "If I had been told this morning," he said, " that all the college buildings had been burned to the ground I should have felt less disturbed. We could build new buildings with honor and self-respect. But by this act we are humiliated and disgraced. Young men, burn our buildings to the ground if you must, but spare our good name." The speedy punishment of the wrong-doers had a wholesome effect, but it was t...
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