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Morgan v. Colleagues. In 1931, toward the end of his presidency of Antioch College, Dr. Morgan was obliged to rest his mind with a long vacation in Europe. The private view of many of his critics is that he needs to rest his mind again. The form, substance and manner of the case which he last week presented bore out no such view. He was calm, cogent, precise. He began by stating that he accused his colleagues of no dishonesty except intellectual dishonesty. Said...
...question is not one of determining a future life's work; Harvard is not an Antioch or a Technology. In fact, most men will find that it is a good idea to forget any premonition of future careers and select the field in which they are really interested. Although it does not commit them to lifelong imprisonment, changes later on cannot be made without the loss of much valuable time, and care now will pay large dividends later on. Above all, the worst thing they can do is to drift into any field at all, expecting to have an education...
...high point of the afternoon program will be a symposium at the University of Cincinnati on the subject: "Preparing the college student for citizenship." Dr. Raymond Walters, President of the University of Cincinnati, will preside over more than 50 college presidents, including the heads of Ohio State, Kenyon, Antioch, Indiana, Purdue, Notre Dame, Centre, and Kentucky...
...republics-Syria proper and Lebanon. With this plan there are at least five incurable difficulties: 1) although Syria is mainly Mohammedan, Lebanon mainly Christian, both have strong, quarrelsome minority groups; 2) Moslem nationalist leaders insist on a unified Syria, instead of two independent states; 3) Turks in the Antioch-Alex-andretta Sanjak, near the Turkish border, demand the creation of a third independent state (TIME, Feb. 15 et ante); 4) Moslem Kurds seize every opportunity to raid Christian villages in the northeast; 5) fierce Druse tribesmen make periodic pillages in the fertile valleys of Lebanon...
...best to exile himself in Syria after the death of his friend and protector, the Emperor Nero. Varro had grown to like and understand the East; thanks to his money and his sympathetic shrewdness he had become one of the most potent men in Syria. Then fate sent to Antioch, as Roman Governor, Varro's old acquaintance and antipathy, Cejonius. Because Cejonius, a cut-&-dried type of administrator, did Varro down on the little matter of a tax bill, Varro privately swore vengeance. He soon found a way to get even...