Antioch College - Towers Yearbook (Yellow Springs, OH)

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it 1 I iscx-nan von Erlach's Spanish Riding Academy is one I spot in the world still practicing the highest school 'f rw . . . . -5 of fldlflg art. It is a proud castle of immense dimen- 1 li' . . . M ,, . re e -- sions, a miniature Place San Marco wherein the art is practiced on the noblest of thoroughbreds. And yet to many Antiochians the rigid walls of this academy, this hall of white, and child of the Italian Renaissance, would seem drab and lifeless compared with the trees, the rocks of their own -a.4' Miami gorge. In the gorge is a little-known series of bridal paths where the announcing flourish of trumpets is missing, the necessity of white leather breeches, scarlet coats, two point hats, and gilded saddles paraded before a gallery of nobility lacking. Here the saddle may be of the most colorless western sort, the habit of moth-eaten knickers and a torn sweater, the beast a rat-bitten, gaitless nag, and the gallery a rabbit, a bird or two. An unsignaled canter still offers the blood-heating sensation ol an ancestral charge with the sound of pounding hoofs, the rush of air. The thrill of being astride is still there. The same air tears at the untasseled mane, the burr-filled tail, and tousles the rider's unprotected locks. It is to be astride! . . . alive! . . . that thrills, and all the finest riding art, the finest of stables, the most blooded of horses, lives in the mind as mere imagina- tion. In the gorge it is skill and the open spaces. At the academy it is convention and rigid conformity to rules. Is not physical freedom and a proliiic imagination after all the most pro- found? . . . Certainly it is the most pleasant. I23

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- Y JL Richard Pier Wright, Erie, Pennsylvania Arnold Vernon Williams, laclqson, Michigan Loring Wood, Washington, D. C. Norman Chandler Bursler, Wilmington, Delaware Richard Dunton Colburn, San Diego, California Frederick Brown Demarest, Springfield, Massachusetts Dorothy Hilbert, Dayton, Ohio W. Bayard Iones, Evanston, Illinois Eleanor Moore, Worcester, Massachusetts Mariel Moraller, Bronxuille, New Yorlq 122

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-,. - .rug , , Howard Wells Ream, Bellevue, Olzio Samuel Theodore Sawyer, Ir., Bradenton, Florida Walter Earle Short, Los Angeles, California Ierome Leon Strauss, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania