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Students at Ohio's coed Antioch College in Yellow Springs join no fraternities or sororities, never wear caps & gowns, care nothing for intercollegiate sports and, in several courses, grade themselves. Working with the faculty, they set the campus rules, vote community "taxes," and each year elect a paid student manager to run the college. Students even vote on the hiring & firing of professors. Last week, when Antioch chose a new president, an undergraduate was on the seven-man committee that did the choosing...
McGregor, who believes that classrooms and real life are too far apart, should feel at home at Antioch. The college, founded by Horace Mann in 1853, had only 39 students when Engineer Arthur E. Morgan took over in 1921 with a few radical ideas to try out. Since then, students have spent half of their five years at Antioch on off-campus jobs. Morgan's famed "Antioch Plan" has boosted the student body to 1,100, extended the campus to 30 states and 400 offices, stores and factories, from the Washington Post to Macy's basement. Antioch students...
Great Playthings. Little gold ducks waddled after pearls in unending alternation, to make a necklace handsome enough for a 5th Century princess. Ivory saints beckoned from panels small enough to put in a wallet. Rams and lions from ancient Antioch displayed their gold and silver manes in 5th Century mosaics. There was a polished statuette of Astarte, the pagan goddess of fertility, whose memory died hard among the Christian farmers of Northern Syria. Bronze oil lamps, surmounted by leaping lions and the hooked beaks of griffins, stood dry and wickless under glass. Once the lamps had flickered, fiercely golden...
...Robert Ingersoll, married a Kentuckian, studied law but never practiced, taught school, sold textbooks, became a Bull Mooser and a Woodrow Wilson internationalist. Joe, the sixth of seven children, was born in Crookston, Minn., in 1905. Joe played football at high school, worked as a farmhand and went to Antioch College. He topped off his education at the University of Minnesota and got a job on the Minneapolis Journal as a $15-a-week reporter...
Ohio's progressive Antioch College believes that education is where you find it. Its students work at textbooks half the year, take jobs approved by the professors for the other half. Nelda Sloan, 18 and a student in journalism, got her Antioch-approved job as a $22-a-week copy boy on the Philadelphia Record, and joined the American Newspaper Guild. Ten days later the Guild struck the Record. Last week Freshman Nelda was in her sixth week on the picket line. Antioch assured her that her picketing would be counted toward her credits...