Antioch College - Towers Yearbook (Yellow Springs, OH)

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Esther Battin Boone, Selma, Ohio Wallace Edwin Breitman, New York, New York Ellsworth Hovey Brown, Hempstead, New York Iohn Tyrel Bryce, Toledo, Ohio Dorothy Ruth Bull, Bay Shore, New York Robert Speir Cameron, New Salem, New York Donald Collin Campbell, Cleveland, Ohio Donald Adams Clarke, Bujalo, New York Mary Elizabeth Colestock, Lewisburg, Perzrzxylvcmiiz Charlotte May Corbett, Oregon City, Oregon 72

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f' ii R E G R E T S ' . MQ, N1'1ocH's problem children returned to school by j Ig N N l selves presented with the traditional thirty pieces -A --WM of silver for the corpses of their own beloved or- ,Saw if t lift -it five-week intervals in the fall of 1929 to find them- f'- -vi -5 , ganizations and, with a prayer to individual Allahs, entrusted themselves to the merry-go-round of Rotation. The anniver- sary of the death of the halls has left transplanted half- brothers in a pool of reminiscences whose size belies their youth. Memories of the Ides of March and their fateful por- tent bring recollections of Wrathful hall presidents, of futile exhortations for No transplantation without representation, and of indignant bull sessions. But memories fade with the echo of Il Duce Morgan's commandment, f'Ye shall not be fraternalfl There occur moments in the packing of grips for the periodic treks of an Antiochian when some run across shiny pins in the bottoms of drawers that were accustomed to label the bearers as proud members of Insert-name-of Hall, and the stream of resulting associations is broken by sighs of Alas, poor Yorickf' A heretical memory calls back the old objec- tions and they still seem valid, what benefits have resulted from our organized disorganizationP The campus still re- sounds to the derisive cry of Hi, fellowswg few unwilling Rotarians, and the Writer is acquainted with none who were willing, have increased their vocabularies of first names appre- ciably. The fraternal spirit is still evident in those people who are seen together g even though halls have been smashed the fragments remain and litter the scene of action. Acquaintances 71

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ill remain acquaintances, and friends remain friends despite great- er or lesser degrees of distance. Rumors of gambling and drink- ing, and some said those evils hastened the hall-dooms, persist in practically the same quantities. Wonder yet lives in Whole- sale lots that a man-or-boy should not be allowed to live with the group that is most agreeable to him. The story of the men who covertly attend meetings of their old loves although ensconced in new barracks combines with the story that practically an entire hall has forsaken the dormitory for the village to convince the writer that there will be no peace on our merry-go-round till those present har- dened recalcitrants have joined the legendary ranks of Alum- ni who cavort in Elysian fields, and from boundless depths of selfishness he wonders why he must be one of the guinea- pigs upon whom the noble experiments are performed. With a touch of pathos he remembers the time when he was un- touched by youthful cynicism, when he was free from the dread of carefree college life, when he, even, he shrinks to admit, relished the idea of being a fraternity man, and he laughs a laugh that is tinged with immature bitterness. The writer's remembrance of the weary disgust of the sophomore who tries to study in a hall of twelve freshmen is interrupted by the so-called tap-dancing of the future Fred Stone who spasmodically lives above him, and he grows firmer in his belief that a happy family of some four hundred sym- metrical mortals is Utopian, but entirely impossible. From early childhood he has favored small families, and he supposes that death will find him still so prejudiced despite future ro- tating years. 73