Antioch College - Towers Yearbook (Yellow Springs, OH)

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Ruth Rebecca Leibig, Bcchzelsoille, Pennsylvania Iohn Lawrence Lord, Alberta, Canada Vllalworth MacDowell, Uniontozan, Pcnnfylvania Sara Mecracken, Oalq Parlq, Illinois Thalia Mecracken, Oak Park, Illinois Max George Mercer, Wes: Hartford, Conneczicaz William Cristian Meyer, Antioch, California Dorothy Mott, Oswego, New York Richard Winslow Nutter, Ir., Brockton, Massachusezzs Joyce Harriet Otter, Moscow, Idaho 60

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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

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I,-.. SITOVE CORNER REMINISCENCES OF A VENERABLE PIONEER rs- :iifri Nrioci-1 was overlooked b Sieur de La Salle in 1669 when the hardy French explorer penetrated l l 4 l the glen while seeking a direct route to China via A ' what is now the Buckeye State. Christopher Gist, sizing up the country in the interests of the First Ohio Company in 1750 also underestimated the cul- tural possibilities of this primeval section. And whereas even the bewhiskered Fort -niners assed it Y P . by a century later, other and more alert gold diggers of a still later day, as they hove in sight and sound of the bright lights and laughter emanating from Moxie's, drew rein and turned in. As a matter of fact the lace wasn't s stematicall' de- J P Y Y veloped and colonized until Horace Mann, walking down President Street one day in 1859, bethouglit him of how neatly the skyline above the present site of the campus would be punctured by say two or three vertical projections Cadv.j. Wlien the Towers fthanks for these ads-Edj were com- leted Mr. Mann, in castino about for some lausible sub- P U P structure to erect beneath, hit upon the idea of a college. How the place escaped being a church, or, even worse, the scene of operations for pole sitting twins, remains a mystery even unto this gentle spring day in the year of our Lord Morgan the ninth. 61