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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from which the school has received some $11,000,000 in anonymous donations. Other notable gifts: A bronze sculpture by Paul Manship (The Cycle of Life}; a fund to increase professorial salaries and insure sabbatical years for Andover's older teachers; $1,000,000 for keeping the campus trees and shrubs in order. A Cochran theory: Anyone who likes Nature will never become a Bolshevist...
Calling together his faculty, he said: "My only regret in going is that I shall never be able to stand before another Baylor student body." On the campus students asked: "What's the latest?" and the reply came: "Condition unchanged." The Texas Legislature sent a message of sympathy. His oldtime roommate came, Pat Neff who, chairman of Baylor's board of trustees, was a likely choice as his successor...
...Antioch's field faculty, representatives of 175 business and professional firms in 15 States, the Professors of Work supervise the periodic excursions of Antioch students into business. They are an essential part of Antioch's scheme, yet few of them had ever before seen Antioch's campus or their professional colleagues...
Plant. The physical background they saw looks much as it did in the regime of Antioch's famed, progressive first president, Horace Mann (1853-59). Though a new science hall, a new gymnasium, a library and a tearoom known as "Ye Anchorage" have been built on the big campus that has never been formally landscaped, still standing are the original four dingy brick buildings with their queer, concave pointed towers. Hard by is the college's Glen Helen, a hilly, 1,000 acre forest tract where a century ago lived a Communistic or Owenite colony. The village...
Study & Work. Half of Antioch's 650 students were absent last week, for Antioch divides its undergraduates into A and B groups, sends the A's off for five or ten weeks while the B's study on the campus. Then the groups swap places. Because study time is thus interrupted, the course lasts six years, though bright students may finish in five. Antioch was the first Liberal Arts college to adopt this co-operative plan, previously employed in the University of Cincinnati Engineering School...