Antioch College - Towers Yearbook (Yellow Springs, OH)

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ALBERT WILBUR EATON Bryan, Ohio ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING Community Council, Dormitory Committee, Chairman, Antioch Union, Antioch Players, Antioch Parliament, Antioch Chapter A. S. C. E., Glee Club, Orchestra, Band. HUBERT FREDERICK EUCHENHOFER Dayton, Ohio ECONOMICS Community Council, Chairman 1929-30: Antioch Union, Treasurer 1925, Baker House, Secretary. HOYVARD WALLERSTEIN FINESHRIBER Pliiloflolphio, Fa. Socmr, SCIENCE Community Council, Secretary 1929-30, Antioch Parliament, Antioch Players, Secretziry-Treasurer 1928-29, President 1929-30, League of Nations Association, 1929-30. SIMON FISHER, JR. Rock Rapids, Iowa ENGINEERING Antioch Players, Assistant Business ilflanager X926-27, Polygon Club, Secretary-Treasurer, 1926-27, Morgan Hall, Secretary-Treasurer 1926- 27, Glee Club, Band, Antioch Union. VERA FRIEDERIKA GRAY Pekin, Illinois ENGLISH Dramatic Club, Antioch Union, Glee Club, Nlusic Committee. 28

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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.

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f, .... .. Ami have elapsed since it went out of existence. Except for the in- ception of the organized halls two years later it is doubtful if any other student activity at Antioch has had such far-reaching consequences. In those days the student body as a whole was much more conventional and intolerant than it is today. There was a general desire that Antioch should grow into a conventional peppy American college with lots of the Hgood old college spiritl' and all the palaver that goes with it. The League of Youth stemmed that tide, and was cordially hated for it. The Anziochian staff were mostly League of Youth people, and I have a clear mental picture of a crowd of angry stu- dents gathered about the big elm in front of North Hall on which was posted a clipping from the Avzziochiafz, along with a sign which read, Are we going to stand for this sort of thing at Antioch? The clipping signed HH. C. ridiculed football. That night Horace Champney was dragged from his room, paddled severely, and ducked in the horse trough on the road to Grinnellls. A few evenings later the football team met at Chatterjee's at the invitation of the League of Youth, for a free for all dis- cussion. The room was packed. Feelings were at white heat. And the League of Youth kept the upper hand. I overheard a frightened conversation later in the evening between two foot- ball men who seemed to think that they were going to be fired from college for playing football at all. After a time the League of Youth drifted away from Chatterjeesh Meetings became irregular. A temporary revival