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Students at Ohio's coed Antioch College in Yellow Springs join no fraternities or sororities, never wear caps & gowns, care nothing for intercollegiate sports and, in several courses, grade themselves. Working with the faculty, they set the campus rules, vote community "taxes," and each year elect a paid student manager to run the college. Students even vote on the hiring & firing of professors. Last week, when Antioch chose a new president, an undergraduate was on the seven-man committee that did the choosing...
...should feel at home at Antioch. The college, founded by Horace Mann in 1853, had only 39 students when Engineer Arthur E. Morgan took over in 1921 with a few radical ideas to try out. Since then, students have spent half of their five years at Antioch on off-campus jobs. Morgan's famed "Antioch Plan" has boosted the student body to 1,100, extended the campus to 30 states and 400 offices, stores and factories, from the Washington Post to Macy's basement. Antioch students often join unions, and two years ago the college gave one coed...
...young soldier was erected by the Southern Memorial Association and unveiled by President Roosevelt in Lee Park at Dallas, Tex. It is a fine work of art by A. Phimister Proctor, who has just completed a group of horses called "The Mustangs" for the University of Texas campus...
Despite the rosy glow, many members of the Class of '48 were not yet ready or willing to leave the campus. Enrollments in Michigan and Tulane graduate schools were way up; 56% of Harvard's seniors planned to stay safely behind ivied walls, even after commencement...
...Negro students at Baldwin-Wallace College, Bones has been a campus celebrity for some time. Last year his fellow students raised $1,500 among themselves to set up a scholarship for his firstborn child (if & when he begins to raise a family; he is still a bachelor). Bones's fame has now spread far beyond the campus. A skinny 5 ft. 10 in. tall, he is the greatest high & low hurdler who ever wore spikes. He holds nine world records at different distances, and is the safest bet the U.S. has for the Olympic Games in July...