Records, 1930-1940.

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Records, 1930-1940.

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Minutes, correspondence, speeches, membership lists, and printed materials document the society's efforts to achieve peace in the world during the turbulent decade of the thirties.

.60 linear ft.

Oberlin College Library

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Oberlin College Library

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Oberlin Peace Society (Oberlin, Ohio)

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The Oberlin Peace Society was organized in the fall of 1930 for the purpose of promoting peace and investigating the causes of war. The society sought to mobilize Oberlin opinion as an agent to further its aims. It sponsored lectures and study groups, sent delegates to conventions, and corresponded with politicians and other peace organizations. Oberlin College President Ernest Hatch Wilkins (1880-1966) was for several years a member of the society. In 1940, the society merged with the Public Af...

Wilkins, Ernest Hatch, 1880-1966

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Ernest Hatch Wilkins was born in Newton Centre, Massachusetts on September 14, 1880. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Amherst College in 1900 and began his teaching career there, receiving the M.A. from Amherst in 1903. He taught at Harvard University from 1906 to 1912 while working towards the Ph. D. in Romance Languages, which he received in 1910. In 1912, he was appointed Associate Professor of Romance Languages at the University of Chicago and in 1923 became Dean of the university's College ...