Antioch College - Towers Yearbook (Yellow Springs, OH)

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ELSIE LILLIAN HEMPSTEAD HOIISIOII, Illimzesota HOUSEHOLD ECONOMICS Colleges: Iowa State College, Antioch College. LEILA KATHERINE HENDERSON Dzwenport, Iowa CHEMISTRY Antioch Players BENJAMIN ROE HERMANN Newark, Ohio ENGINEERING Community Councilg Antioch Chapter A. S. C. E. MICHAEL VLADIMIR HITROVO Boston, lllIll.YSllL'll1lSl'ff.i ll'IATHEMA'I'ICS Fencing Instructor, 1926-27-285 Antioch Uniong Dm-oil Anziocliiau. ELIZABETH WOCDBURYY HOVVARD Clrfvrlrnzrl, Ohio ECONOMICS Colleges: Smith College, 1925-275 Antioch College, 1928-30. Community Council, 1928-29-305 Antioch Players. 30

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basis of the present community government was inaugurated. That was a great year for liberal activities. The Blaze attracted a more representative group and did not produce a clique as the League of Youth had done. But most of the liberal leaders graduated in 1926. The next year was a lean one. A new magazine, the Nofzrcnsor, founded by Walter Kahoe, made its appearance, with poetry and philo- sophical humor as its aim, and shared staff members with the Blaze. For two years liberal activities were on the decline. The Nofzscfzsor degenerated and died. The Blaze was growing weaker. Horace Chanapney was out of school. Discussion groups stopped. The promotion of interracial meetings was left to the faculty. Very little happened in the way of student liberal activities. ' Blaze activity may be taken as a fair barometer of liberal doings at Antioch during the past Hve years. In the school year of 1927-1928 only two issue of the Blaze appeared. Other things were happening to some extent. It was during that year that telegrams, signed by over half the student body, were sent to Washington protesting America's policy in Nicaragua, and as a result of student activity this political protest was taken up considerably beyond the campus. The arrival of Dr. Broda in Yellow Springs was perhaps the most important event on the liberal calendar for the year. During the following year the Antioch Parliament was organized and began to function. The declining Blaze was revitalized by the heroic efforts of a small group of freshmen and sophomores. Dr. Broda began to get his League for the 29

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was made under the name of the Antioch Forum, but that soon stopped. The League of Youth members resigned from the Arztioehian due to pressure from both faculty and stu- dents. It looked like the end. And then, in the spring of 1925, a little coverless, eight- page guerrilla magazine naively crept forth to meet a wall of indifference and scorn. Volume I, Number 1 of the Blaze had appeared. The beginning of the Blaze marked the gradu- ation of the liberal group from faculty sponsorship. For the first time since the new Antioch began the liberal gang was standing on its own feet. Had the old League of Youth crowd stood solidly behind the infant Blaze all might have been well, but the left wing split, and split again, leaving a mere shadow of the lively gang that once met at Chatterjeesl. When the second issue of the Blaze appeared popular ridicule knew no bounds. The staff of the Arzzioehiafz was especially vehement in its denunciation of the liberals' attempt at journalism. And it was this very antagonism which put life into the Blaze. The editorial and correspondence columns of the z47Zil0Chl.Il7Z reeked with attacks on the Blaze and defenses of it. Too late the Afzlioehiafz saw its error. A new liberal group had already begun to rally around the Blaze. Witli the opening of school in the fall of 1925 a full- fledged liberal club leaped into existence, to publish the Blaze and to promote all manner of liberal activities on the campus. Discussion groups were promoted, interracial meetings with VVilberforce were regularly conducted with considerable suc- cess, Antioch's student government was overthrown and the 27 elf.