Antioch College - Towers Yearbook (Yellow Springs, OH)

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Lloyd Raymond Pederson, Dcllzi, Minnesota Pasquale Everett Piacitelli, Providence, Rhode Island Emma Katherine Schneider, Abercrombie, North Dzzlqoza Edward Paul Sechrist, Washington, D. C. Charme Brown Shippen, Atlanta, Georgia Melvin Raymond Shuler, North East, Pefznsylwzrzia Barnett Alvin Sigmon, Dayton, Ohio Wilda Irene Sirnonton, Saginaw, Michigmz Carl Sipe, Somerset, Pemzsylomzia Iason Cotton Sloane, Lacofzia, New Hampshire 62

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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

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it It is a far cry from 1859 to 1921, when the present writer, one dismal and drizzly autumn day, tripped over an open trench and sprawled, bag and baggage, gracefully at the feet of Dean Inman, then a mere biology pedagogue. Thefuture dean, being unable at a cursory glance to determine the exact genus of this strange new bacillus spread across his path, and being in too great a hurry to take out his pocket glass for a closer study, disappeared quickly behind the dune of an ad- joining steam line ditch. I had not long been a charter resident under the new Morganic dispensation when I learned that the most perplex- ing problem of reorganization was that of Ending a suitable way in which to distinguish the three student groups now com- monly known as the A's, the B's, and the C's. It was at first thought to name each division after a Hower, i.e., magnolias, morning-glories, black-eyed susiesg but inas- much as students were from every known state in the Union, including the Scandinavian, and because there were not nearly enough divisions on hand to provide hothouse accommoda- tions for the numerous state flowers thus Huttering nervously for representation, this plan was ultimately thrown into the discard-which, in that remote day, meant any one of several gaping wounds intersecting and pocking the local landscape. At the height of these hectic deliberations, in a violent effort to arrive at some multi-laterally satisfactory solution of this problem many students repaired to secluded nooks in the glen, took up their positions behind tables in the tea room and adjourned to other places in town where they were served potions designed to precipitate deep reflection, prayer, and meditation conducive to fluidity of ideas. 63