Antioch College - Towers Yearbook (Yellow Springs, OH)

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SENIORS ARTHUR EUGENE ADAMS Dayton, Ohio ACCOUNTING HERVEY NICKAY ALLEN lone, WUS'liflyf0I1 SOCIAL SCIENCE Community Council, 1927-283 Towers, Circulation Manager 1927, Busi- ness Manager 1928, Antiachian, Assistant Publication Manager 1926, Tri-Square Club, Assistant Manager I927Q Antioch Union, Polygon Club, Science Club. JOHN DEENI ARGETSINGER Pipexlone, Illinnesota ENGINEERING Varsity Track, Cross Country, Antioch Chapter A. S. C. E. ROBERT COlVlLY BACON IVHllil1gf0l'll, Pefzzzsylvarlia BUSINESS MANAGEMENT Antiachian, Business Manager 1927, Dormitory Committee, Secretary 19273 Baker House, Treasurer 1928, Tennis Team, 1927-28-29, Captain 19285 Towers, 1927, Antioch Union, Science Club, Antioch Parliament, Glee Club. FRANCES KNOX BALDWIN Jmifm, Kentucky EDUCATION 20

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O' ' a X x 6 x tix 9 4 R qxlv , If ff .: , ,I 'X Iv HY are men ever fascinated b a shi and reat ocean i. , V Y P . wi J expanses? Why have they always sought a ship and 7 Lt I iii the sea for youthful adventure? . . . But why does a ii 1452.5 ' h ' b ' profound wisdom of the past ever crouc in su mis- siveness to the uncertainties of a future? .... Perhaps men are like ships! Like massive liners ever colorful and representative of millions in capitalg like lowly tugs never venturing from the fogs of the harborg or like ancient wind-jammers the bravest of them all .... Men as shipsg the black depths of the ocean as the future's uncertainties! An ever active mass of them on a vastness of water that opposes idleness and strains to tear them away from anchor chains and hawsers. They slip across the seas with ports of destination leagues ahead. Between are mile on mile of heaving billows that ceaselessly slip astern . . . between are all the uncertainties of time and chance, fair weather with favorable winds and a foaming wake, or a shrieking gale and mountainous seas that snatch at scudding low, black clouds .... A mere speck afloat on the surrounding immensity of the ocean .... Blown off the course in a sudden hurricaneg sounding along a dangerous lee shore in hopeless fogsg or becalmed in the great stagnant sea of Sargasso. The science of modern navigation, the study of charts, the knowledge of advantageous currents, tides to be awaited, shoals and reefs to be avoided, are the necessary guides. The ship must be strong and the captain brave. The compass, the sextant, the chronometer, never fail for they are the instru- ments of science and intelligence. Those who reach their suc- cessful destinations do not steer by dead-reckoning. I9 l' L

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i fl' ANTIOCH'S LEFT WING Q XURING the year following Antiochls reorganization gli nine years ago there was little in the way of stu- - dent activities to indicate that the liberal element A- e - among the students would ever become prominent or even active on the campus. The student body was composed mainly of two types, the Rah Rah people, and the conserva- tive dignified people. Here and there one might find a solitary highbrow who talked about the latest books, and considered himself intellectual. But there was, in the broader sense, no left wing. We were too busy getting acquainted with each other. The campus was a frontier, or rather a no-man's land. Trench- es, debris, heatless rooms, half-completed plumbing, and fresh paint gave the place an air of change and uncertainty which was not conducive to the products of leisure. The first gang of students was a rough one. Nearly all were freshmen, and they came from all over the country. There was no tradition. There were no publications. There was nothing but ditches and mud. We assembled now and then to roar out our football songs, and in the evenings we raged about in the men's dorm, wreck- ing each other as Well as the furniture. Of my particular friends that first year practically all were fired either for drinking, low scholarship, or general undesirability. The turn- over was astonishing. 2I