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...Second, we shall print reflective articles on Harvard University and education in general. These will be written from various points of view such as Harvard judged by a former Oxford students, by a former Antioch student, or by a former student at the Wisconsin experimental college...
...Antioch, 111., convicted by a jury of having bitten the town marshal, Biter John Brogan dived into the jury box, rapidly bit eight jurors...
Died, Joseph Warren Keifer, 96, one of the three known surviving Civil War generals,* longtime (1877-85, 1905-11) Congressman from Ohio, onetime (1881-83) Speaker of the House; of old age; in Springfield, Ohio. Educated under the regime of the late, great President Horace Mann of Antioch College, he rose to fame as a divisional commander for General Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley, was four times wounded. During the Spanish War. President McKinley appointed him Major General of volunteers, and he was later elected 1st Commander-in-Chief of the Spanish War Veterans. As Speaker of the House...
Another great year in the Insull epic was 1910. North of Chicago were ten small towns (Antioch, Grayslake, Barrington, Crystal Lake, McHenry, Dundee, Carpentersville, Gary, Palatine, Arlington Heights) with 15,000 people, each with a local plant and electric service at night. These plants were bought and junked, the transmission systems interconnected and power sent efficiently from one central station. Public Service Co. of Northern Illinois is now regarded as the engineering germ of the great superpower systems. It was the forerunner of Mr. Insull's great Middle West Utilities System, now serving 5,321 communities...
...WARRINER Antioch...