Antioch College - Towers Yearbook (Yellow Springs, OH)

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Vincent DeForest Hoagland, Waltham, Massachusetts Herman Charles Hoffman, Ir., Clearfield, Pennsylvania William Knowlton Hollister, Bridgezfille, Pennsylvania Eleanor Hooper, Glens Falls, New Yorlq Charles Emerson Horne, Scottdale, Pennsylvania Carroll Rexford Irons, Lineszfille, Pennsylvania Gwendolyn Iones, North Granville, New York Iohn Francis Ioyce, Ir., Erlmontls, Washington Martha Ann Palmer Iuringus, Cleveland, Ohio Louis Bieser Kalter, Dayton, Ohio 106

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'-v - ki Saturday we tear things to pieces. The attic door creaks open and shut while strangely costumed figures come totter- ing through the halls laden with absolutely anything from bridge-lamps to pin-cushions. What can't be put into trunks and boxes is offered disarmingly to 'KC Specials who find themselves presented with extra winter coats, Easter eggs, and bitter-sweet. Corridors become tortuous passageways, offering numberless opportunities for cracked shins, and the back entryway of North Hall is piled high with stuff for the Lodge. Everywhere is the dreariness of household gods de- posed. And outside, it rains. For those on the job, it is a day of restless haste to be on the way. Traction, train, and cars in various stages of repair wend the way back to Antioch. Through the drizzling rain the Workers return to play the scholar,'l and their alter- nates go out to carry on. Sunday there are rifts in the clouds and signs of a new settlement in the dorms. Old friendships renewed and gen- uine enthusiasm over the tea room menu. New resolutions to keep after the old books. Mud drying beneath the sun. 105

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Q CLEAN-UP DAY - T MIGHT be a fire-drill, a gigantic surveying l i or a relief corps to help the starving A that swarm of interestingly-clad people gathering ' - -- on the quadrangle one sunny spring afternoon. The advent of Community Service has made Clean-up Day an orderly affair with captains, lieutenants and water-boys to run events through in record time. Shovels, rakes, and bushel- baskets are distributed generously and assignments to sections and type of work are offered with business-like precision. A feeling which very nearly approaches civic pride thrusts even laziest of Antiochians into the ranks and for those who fail to answer roll a search is instituted. No matter if the Messrs. Magruder and Hanchett appear to be arrayed for golfg today they swing the pick-axe. Sammy stands by disconsolately while all the bones he has hidden away pile up with the snaky line of leaves and rubbish which follows the rake brigade Cno punj across the campus. Fem- inine fingers uncover to the sun tender green blades that lie hesitating beneath the dead leaves. Flames leap from the piled- up gleanings and the smell of woodsrnoke drifts over the workers. Popular music blares out in a lively chant to keep the shovels in time. Color tinges the western sky as the quiet of late afternoon comes on. The confused shouting of the early afternoon has given way to only occasional bantering that echoes in the growing silence. Healthy outdoor tiredness hangs on the al- most civic Antiochians who check in their rakes and baskets and water-pails. Clean-up Day has left its mark once more- on all but the rear of South Hall. 107 .