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Health and work?the two prerequisites of an education at Antioch College...
...British reports, has left the city. It is impossible for him, therefore, to help his fellow Patriarch in distress, the Most Rev. Tikhon. And if possible, the Turks will prevent Constantinople from becoming the seat of any other Greek Orthodox Patriarch. The Greek Orthodox Church has ancient patriarchates at Antioch, Alexandria and Jerusalem, but these are all cities in foreign hands. The Tzar, who used to have an authority in Greek Orthodox circles somewhat less than the Roman Catholic Pope, is dead. To whom can Tikhon go for help...
Perhaps the best known characteristic of Antioch College was next discussed by President Eliot: its division into two distinct parts, the students spending half their time in study and half in paid employment. The element of half time work has wide scope and would affect very much the life and education in both our own and other countries especially as regards endowment and support of schools...
...Antioch, declared President Eliot, runs up against the question which perplexes every college, the method of sifting candidates for admission. After pointing out that Harvard had tried to find something better than the examination method and had failed, President Eliot discussed the Antioch plan--"of personal interviews with the candidates, supplemented by a composition and a long questionnaire". "This intensely interesting system", said President Eliot in conclusion, "will undoubtedly last a long time, with a man of Mr. Morgan's faculties at the head of it, and will be followed closely by those who desire a better mode of testing...
...theoretical element especially involving the make up of personality. He accepted the generally conceded fact that a man's character is moulded largely by his surroundings, but stressed the point that the remaining part must be developed by special conditions. "This is what we endeavor to do at Antioch", concluded Mr. Morgan, "by elements in the curriculum differing widely from those of other colleges. Liberalists make for training of intelligence almost exclusively, while technical institutions seek to develop the technical side, but what we wish to do is to devise a complete combination of personality without collecting a superfluity...