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Oberlin (/ oʊ b ər l ɪ n /) is a city in Lorain County, Ohio, United States. It is located about 31 miles (50 km) southwest of Cleveland within the Cleveland metropolitan area. The population was 8,555 at the 2020 census. Oberlin is the home of Oberlin College, a liberal arts college and music conservatory with approximately 3,000 students.
In 1934, one year after SR 10 was not present, the route reappeared largely on its current alignment, running from Oberlin to downtown Cleveland. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] In 1983, a section of SR 10 from SR 301 to I-80/I-480 became freeway-standard.
Partial View Oberlin by H. Alonzo Pease, 1838 "'Oberlin' was an idea before it was a place." [13]: 12 It began in revelation and dreams: Yankees' motivation to emigrate west, attempting perfection in God's eyes, "educating a missionary army of Christian soldiers to save the world and inaugurate God's government on earth, and the radical notion that slavery was America's most horrendous sin ...
In 1854, a church and convent were built by Father Peter La Cour near the town's present site. The town began forming in 1878 when Charles Lander Cleveland, a local judge, donated 63.6 acres (257,000 m 2) of land to the Houston East & West Texas Railway (now part of the Union Pacific Railroad) for use as a stop, requesting that the town be named for him.
At the onset, it was an applied vocational school and was housed in World War II-era Quonset huts without any permanent building on campus. [2] In 1970, the college was renamed the James J. Nance College of Business Administration. [2] In 2011, it was renamed Monte Ahuja College of Business, after former CSU Board of Trustees Chair, Monte Ahuja ...
The Air Route Traffic Control Center was first planned in 1958. The site was chosen due to Oberlin's location near Cleveland, though far enough away from the metropolis to be safe in case of war. The nearby community of Medina, Ohio was also under consideration, but lobbying by the Oberlin city government brought the center to its present ...
Established in 1942, Texas Tech's business school was initially known as the Division of Commerce. In 1956, the school was renamed the College of Business Administration. In 2000, the school was formally renamed as the Jerry S. Rawls College of Business Administration, following a $25 million (equivalent to $44.23 million in 2023) gift from ...
The university in Cleveland was renamed Spencerian Business College in 1876 for one of its most illustrious administrators, Platt R. Spencer, educator and originator of Spencerian penmanship. The earliest curriculum was limited to the development of practical skills, such as penmanship, bookkeeping, and telegraphy .