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...educational history as a notable centennial season. Celebrated last year was the 30th anniversary of the first U. S. high school, Boston Latin, which was founded in 1635. Celebrated all last summer was the 300th birthday of Harvard, first U. S. college (TIME, Sept. 28). At Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, last week began the year-long observance of the Centenary of the great U. S. educator, Horace Mann...
...Daniel Webster after that statesman's "Seventh of March Speech," advocating a compromise on the extension of slavery to the Northern territories. In 1852 Mann was defeated as the Free-Soil candidate for governor of Massachusetts. Same year he returned to education by accepting the presidency of New Antioch College...
...Antioch, Mann and his second wife, Mary Tyler Peabody, whose sister was the wife of Nathaniel Hawthorne, bought a farm on the muddy Little Miami River, courageously started out anew. Mann accepted women as students, engaged several "lady professors." But the next six years were mainly a long, heartbreaking struggle to keep the college alive. Mann's salary, reduced from $3,000 to $2,000, then to $1,500, was never paid in full. In 1859 the college was sold for debt and reorganized by the trustees. Few months later he died...
...Long Road (National Home Library, 25?) is written by Arthur E. Morgan rather as the onetime head of Antioch College than as the chairman of Tennessee Valley Authority. Believing that business has abused its powers, that the reliability of public ownership is unjustly disparaged, he does not damn big business indiscriminately. Says he: "As I worked along through the years, over and over again I found that in practical affairs the ethics of big businessmen were better than the ethics of small businessmen. . . . The difficulty then is . . . that defects of character which in a simple society may be endurable...
...days of its famed first president, Horace Mann (1853-59), Antioch College at Yellow Springs, Ohio, kept the world of education humming with new progressive ideas. To Antioch in 1920 went tall, baldish President Arthur Ernest Morgan with ideas even newer. President Morgan split the college's students into two groups, shipped one off for five-or-ten weeks of work in offices or factories while the other studied on the campus. No professional educator but an engineer who helped harness the turbulent Mi ami River after the Dayton flood of 1913, President Morgan was released on leave from...