Antioch College - Towers Yearbook (Yellow Springs, OH)

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Florence Anna Stacey, North Ridgeville, Ohio Edward Stanwood Ill, Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts Rachel Anne Stuller, Bryan, Ohio Alma Everett Swahliu, MH172GlA0iZ6C!Q, New Yorll Oscar Eric Swanson, Ir., Rochester, New Yorlq Georgia Marcella Thomas, Marshall, Illifzois Martha Louise Veal, Freeport, New Yoflg Earle Samuel VVelch, Ir., Eau Claire, Wiseofzsifz Clair Ellis Vllilcox, Montrezzl, W iseolzsin Lewis Orlo Williams, Freeport, Illifsois 64

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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

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Across the tea table, the glen dancing pavilion, in the re- fectory, down by the furnace, and in countless dorm rooms the battle raged. Were the future legions of Antioch to be known from Montauk Point to the Golden Gate, from, in fact, Iceland's greeny mountains to HaWaii's corl strands fmail thus ad- dressed should reach quondam assistant dean Arthur E. Houck, and points west as Buttercups, Violets, and Pansies, in all conscience, or were their eternal identities to be derived from Greek or Roman pantheon? Would We have Bachii, Venuses, Neptunes, Adonises, Aphrodites, etc., or perchance would the plan be so devised to distinguish us by astronomical terminology? There might, it was stoutly held, be the Pegasi, the Cassiopeans, the Saturnalians, the Moonshiners. Then there was the school which firmly stood its ground for a quasi-medical nomenclature frankly suggestive of cer- tain anatomical improvement cults, i.e., the Tonsilitics, Dia- betics, Gall Stone Quarryists, Fallen Archers, Distended Ab- domenites, Back Rubbers, Ioint Adjusters, Contract Hippites and Asthmaticians. Dismayed at the alarmingly increasing complexity of the situation Prexy Morgan quietly announced one morning to the assembled factions that until they could reach some agree- ment in the matter the three groups would be referred to in the official archives by the simple alphabetical designation in vogue ever since. 65