Library		A Newsletter of the Oberlin College Library
	Perspectives
	Number 13, September 1995

"Last Tuesday I said to you that the College, like each one of us, must now lead two lives, one normal, the other a special life related to the war.

"The normal life of the College will go straight forward. We shall continue to offer the courses that we normally offer; and those of you who may desire and be able to go through college on the normal four-year plan may do so. Indeed, if you can, you will do well to do so.

"But the College is developing also its special life related to the war; and it is of that special life that I am telling you today. That special life is being developed primarily for the sake of the nation and for your own sake."

So began President Ernest H. Wilkins' assembly talk to the student body shortly after the United States entered World War II. The text of his talk is one of many fascinating items in an exhibition entitled "Less Frills in Everything: Oberlin College Life During the Second World War." The exhibition will be on display in the Main Library until September 18.

Created by Susan Haskell Ô95 with assistance from the Oberlin College Archives and the Special Collections Department, the exhibition was opened in conjunction with the reunion of the classes of 1939 to 1949 held on campus in late August.

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