Word: antioch
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...Antioch College is an institution which Dr. Charles Eliot has called "the most interesting and perhaps the most important experiment now going on in the field of American education". President Morgan, who is to speak at the Union this evening, was invited to become its president some years ago when it had become financially embarrassed, and he at once proceeded to put his new ideas into practise...
...graduate of the ordinary technical school, the alumnus of the liberal college, and the self-made man each lack something that the two others possess, and each possess something that the other two lack. In order to combine these qualities, President Morgan has established a six-year course at Antioch, in which the student studies half of the time, and works the other half in Dayton or in a neighboring town. Although the title of President Morgan's speech is "New movements in education," he will doubtless expound the Antioch system, which is as famous as it is little understood...
...Movements in Education" is the subject which Mr. Arthur E. Morgan, president of Antioch College in Ohio, has selected for his address in the Faculty Room of the Union at 8 o'clock this evening. All Union members and students in the Graduate School of Education may hear Mr. Morgan speak, inasmuch as the meeting is being given under the auspices of both Union and the Graduate School of Education. Dean Holmes of the School of Education will introduce Mr. Morgan...
...Morgan, who was a reclamation engineer working in flooded areas before his assuming the presidency of Antioch College, has been speaking at several places in Boston during the past few days. From 1902 to 1907 he supervised the United States government drainage investigations...
...Morgan immediately inaugurated a new system of education at Antioch. An arts degree is now taken after six years. Each man divides his time between industrial work and study, both of which are under college supervision, students being given industrial work,--office, factory, farm, etc. Mr. Morgan will tell with what success this scheme...