Antioch College - Towers Yearbook (Yellow Springs, OH)

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SUB-SENIORS Francis Robbins Allen, Hartford, Connecticut Wallace Day Berry, Dayton, Ohio Iohn Lachenauer Clouse, Geneva, Pennsylvania Charles Emmett Cullison, Meridian, Idaho Morill Dakin, West Concord, New Hampshire LeRoy Matthew Dearing, Parma, Michigan Charles Leslie Finch, Salamanca, New York Robert Richard Finlay, Cleveland, Ohio Frederic E. Fuller, Greenwich, Connecticut Bennett Tyler Gale, South Braintree, Massachusetts 44

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are doubtless many ivies that have been trans- planted into America from Great Britain with a history attached to them, but it is possible that ' none of them have a history quite as remarkable as the ivy which mantles the walls of Antioch. The donor of the ivy was Miss Alton Halstein Iohnson, a sister-in-law to Mr. Frank Grinnell of Spring Lea. One sum- mer while visiting the estate of Washington Irving Miss Iohn- son so fervently admired the ivy luxuriously ernbowering Sunnyside that upon leaving, Mr. Irving said, Let me give you some ivy to take back to your home in Ohio. Initially, the ivy had been planted on Irving's delightful home by a Mrs. Renwick, of New York City. It was she whom Burns immortalized in his poem, The Blue Eyed Lassief' On one of her visits to Scotland she went to Melrose Abbey. Sir Walter Scott gave her a piece of ivy to plant at Irving's home and she did so with her own hands. It soon attained a growth as luxuriant at Sunnyside as it had at Melrose. . Miss Iohnson, herself a remarkable, cultured woman with a long line of literary ancestors, finally gave the ivy to Antioch through Doctor Thomas Hill who was then president of the institution. Some years ago the Antioch ivy was confounded with bignonia, and thinking it might injure the roof was torn in part from the walls, but, Whole ages have Hed, and their works decayed, And nations scattered beeng But the stout old ivy shall never fade From its hale and hearty green. The brave old plant in its lonely days Shall fatten upon the past, For the stateliest building men can raise Is the ivy's food at last. Creeping where no life is seen A rare old plant is the ivy green. FROM omg OF ANTIocH's FIRST PRINTED ANNUALS, 1918. 43

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11? UNITY IN EDUCATION HE Antioch Plan requires that we consider what sorts of knowledge are really essential to the man who today is to be called educated, and that we - organize these into a curriculum possessing unity. To this end we have a number of courses, DOI merely required, but required in a certain sequence. Moreover the various in- structors coiidinate and correlate what is taught. Yet a se- quence of courses, however coordinated and correlated, do not make a unity 5 they remain simply so many courses. Not even the fact that these courses converge on the individual student makes them a unity. Unity comes when the student makes them a unity. It does not come unless the converging and cor- related courses make a difference to the individual. Of course, to make a difference to the individual or in the individual is the end of education. And the important unity is the unity of one's conduct or attitude towards life. A biologist who would drink unnecessarily of polluted water has scarcely achieved it. The physician who expectorates in the street car has not attained it. And the educated man of today who ac- cepts the teachings of modern science, but insists also on a literal acceptance of the first chapters of Genesis has not achieved it. 45