Antioch College - Towers Yearbook (Yellow Springs, OH)

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Orland Daniel Good, Waynesboro, Pen1z.fylva1zz'a Pauline Graven, Lalqeaille, Ohio Robert Coleman Hall, Chatham, New lersey Lester Martin Harlan, Springfield, Ohio Monroe Karnman Harris, Bujalo, New York Mary Virginia Hayden, Lansing, Michigan Iohn Albert Hewitt, Szuissaale, Pemzsylzfavzia Paul Browning Iohnson, Ir., Wauwazosa, Wiseonsm Charles Richard Kise, Trenton, New jersey Ben Klindworth, Nohomir, Iflirzois 58

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if-f-J five weeks, was said by an eminent authority to be the great- est advance in education in America in the past umpty years. QDid he not overlook that 'Lnoble experiment, prohibition?j Let us unwind the devious trail left by the respondent despite the red herrings he so artfully dragged across the path. I-Ie stands before us today buffeted by reality. He was led by ambition to the pinnacles of opportunity, and battered five years of his life for what lay before him in the valley. He took up First INTER-collegiate athletics, and when his preceptors forbade that pleasure, his fertile mind conceived INTRA- collegiate sports, until the posthumous heir threatens more evil than the deceased parent dreamed of. He chose cards, playing poker with cronies behind drawn shades and locked doors. Again the guiding hand . . . again the wily culprit with now habitual finesse, risked a lower card when the strict rules of play called for a higher, and Bridge became the game, played in the parlors of his educators! Fraternities were frowned down, organized halls given official sanction .... A rose by any other name would smell as sweet and he stays nestled in this incubator of sterility. Need we further clutter our opinion with similar occurrences? 57

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I-4 ix Five years roll by and he has learned catch-words and soundful phrases, a few formulae, a few titles and authors, a smattering of a well-rounded curriculum, sufficient dexter- ous cant to help him Hpassl' his examinations and attend social functions .... What a background! And we reach the respond- ent's defense. He pled NoT GUILTY. At the trial, he offered in evidence a sheepskin, sealed, signed, and delivered by the col- lege president as a DEGREE of Bachelor of Arts. We accept the evidence for what it is worth. He argued, and skillfully, that THAT fitted him for his place in society, THAT was the Key to the City, THAT was indicia of his ability, THAT was sufficient justihcation of his attitude, THAT .... but enough. We sustain the lower court's opinion on this point. The cases are legion proving the worthless evidentiary value of such documents other than as murals. In affirming the trial courtls holding, this Court hopes that his five year's sojourn in this college will not hinder the respondent's success in carrying out the sentence imposed: A lifetime of hard labor among his peers. 59