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...selecting a Negro to teach music . . . [Antioch College (TIME, May 20) is] really following a procession. I am told on good authority that within the past five years 40 colleges and universities, which previously had all-white faculties, have added Negro instructors...
President Antioch College...
Ohio's Antioch College likes to be different. Its 850 students spend half their year on the campus, the other half outside on paying jobs approved by the college. For the past 24 years the head of Anti-och's social science department has been a Hindu. Last week Antioch picked a 30-year-old Negro to run its music department...
Walter Anderson, born in Ohio but once a teacher in a Negro college in Kentucky, believes in teaching both racial and musical harmony. Antioch teachers have told him, he says, that "the only trouble [I face] might be in keeping faculty and students from making too much over me in an effort to be cordial...
...Antioch's actress is Cynthia Mamuta, who had "a magnetic beauty which could attract, creating intense desire; but could not hold, for within that magnificent body lurked a spirit easily stirred, which sometimes repelled one." Together with her handsome scriptwriter, Marcus Macer, she was sent by the Emperor Trajan to Antioch to satirize the growing sect of Christians out of existence. After 263 pages of intrigue, violence and lust, the story erupts in a holocaust of earthquake and conversion. The earth literally swallows up Marcus, while Cynthia does a quick change from a lubricous actress to a contrite Christian...