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...Next year Antioch plans an independent study program in which certain seniors will be left so much to their own devices that they will live part of the time away from the college. Says Chairman Morris Keeton of the Educational Policy Committee: "We want to make the student able to generate his own projects and studies. We think that by senior year he should be entirely on his own and off campus, so he can't see the profs. And we don't intend to correspond with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Set the Student Free | 4/15/1957 | See Source »

...first International Secretary. He echoed Lenin's words-the new party must be a party of action. Yet within three years Fraina was out of the C.P.. was later hounded by false charges of espionage and embezzlement. He spent ten years as respected Professor Lewis Corey at Antioch College (he died in 1953). Fraina was one of those children whom the revolution not only devours but forgets it ever ate, and this sort of thing, Draper wistfully notes, is tough on a historian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: To the Yonkers Station | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

...during a skirmish with Arab tribesmen, found, fragments of old buildings in the Syrian desert sand. Excited archaeologists dug deeper, came upon the Syrian city of Dura-Europos, which in about A.D. 250 had been a garrisoned outpost of the Roman Empire, athwart the main trade route between Antioch and Seleucia. Dura had a large Jewish community and a sizable synagogue. On the synagogue's walls the excavators found murals illustrating Old Testament stories, with certain Talmudic touches added...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: OLDEST BIBLE ILLUSTRATIONS | 1/14/1957 | See Source »

...meant Christians and Jews, whom he had expected to accept his new vision. When they did not respond, he took to the sword. Before the onslaught Eastern Christianity declined in numbers, vigor and territory. Within 80 years of Islam's birth, the mosque had replaced the church from Antioch to Carthage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Encounter with Islam | 11/5/1956 | See Source »

...associate professor of History of Science, the development and the influence of Newton's ideas on the eighteenth century; Philip J. Darlington, Jr. '26, Curator of Recent Insects, the Australian carabid beetles; Glanville Downey, associate professor of Byzantine Literature at the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, the history of Antioch on the Orontes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nineteen Faculty Members Given Guggenheim Awards | 5/1/1956 | See Source »

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