Antioch College - Towers Yearbook (Yellow Springs, OH)

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ROBERT FRANCIS BALDNVIN Wiillouglzby, Ullio Industrial lllarzagement Student Government, Sophomore Representative 1925-263 Service Coun- cil, Nlanager 1925-265 Baker House, Treasurer 1928-295 Polygon Club, Antioch Loan Association. PHILLIP DUNN BASSETT Yellow Springs, Ohio EDUCATION Antioch Players, Secretary-Treasurerg Publications Committee, Chair- mang Antioch Union, Antioch Loan Association, Glee Club, Miisic Committee. ADAH ELLEN BAXTER lllilrm, Ohio EDUCATION Antioch Loan Association, Secretary 1928-29, Vice-President 1929-303 Antioch Union, 1924-30, Vice-President 1928-29Q Elections Committee, 1927-28. MORRIS MONROE BEAN Glrn Ullin, North Dakota PHYSICS Community Government, 1929-305 Antioch Players. CONSTANCE BRACKETT Bristol, Connecticut EDUCATION Community Council, Secretary 1927-285 Antioch Players. 22. 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

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z LN APEX Out of the womb of timelessness Was born this hour. Earth holds its breath, And life for a moment is not reality But some long time gone dream. And you and I and the trees and the stars Hold hands in a magic circle Of sympathy with eternity. This is the hour When we are God And life and man are naught. 35