Antioch College - Towers Yearbook (Yellow Springs, OH)

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Paul Henry Weaver, West Carrollton, Ohio Samuel Toomey Weber, Dover, Ohio Lawrence Eugene Wheelock, North C ollins, N ew York Thomas Stuart White, Streator, Illinois Alfred O'Neil Williams, Yellow Springs, Ohio Mary Louise Williamson, Brooklyn, New York Frank Theoron Woolverton, Toronto, Ontario, lohn Andrew Wyness, Duluth, Minfzesota William Fred Yoder, Scranton, Pennsylvania I Canada 64

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5... They helped Patchy to his feet. C'There she is! Come on I-lumpy, give us a hand. He knocked out his pipe and the three men struggled up the embankment. They stood on the siding silhouetted against the evening sky. The rumbling of the oncoming train increased. All three instinctively crouched as the glare of the headlight became stronger. The engine struggled' up the grade past them, belching great clouds of steam and smoke. The heat of the -I-irebox blasted their faces. Then one by one they started to run along with the train. With experienced hands, each grabbed the lower rung of a box car and let himself be thrown free of the ground to gradually ease himself onto the coupling and thence to safety. They were gone in a Hash. Only the last embers of the dying Hre remained. 163

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elf yy HE first duty of an educational institution is to im- part not information but inspirationg and the col- lege that ignores this duty- and takes the' easy path of mechanical systematization or of acquiescence in the adolescent Worldliness of its students is committing the unpardonable sin against the unborn heirs of our great human adventure. Shall the wisdom we have so painfully acquired at the cost of human happiness he allowed to sink thus again into oblivion to be painfully rediscovered by new generations? DAVID L. WATSON. 165