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By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN
NTIOCII Is “the most In
teresting and perhaps
\V\ the most important ex-
I(Mh( ptSLMj perlment now gain;, on
vJtv Pr iw iu ,lu “ ' vho * e ™nge of
American education."
So says Dr. Charles
?~4 r> \v. Ellct. And when an
educator of tlie reputation of the ven
erable president emeritus of Harvard
university says a thing like that it
should lie worth while to find out what
Is the experiment—what Is "the Anti
och Idea."
Cut bricily In the language of the
day, the Antioch idea appears to be
to give a student a college education
through both hook-learning and a job,
50-fiO. No; p’s not the old-fashioned
plan of working your way through col
lege. The joh is just as important its
tilt l hook-learning; one is the comple
ment of the other. Here is the way
President Arthur E. Morgan sets forth
his idea:
In many of our technical schools al
most th total attention of the student
is directed to the development of tech
nical understanding and skill. The tech
nical graduate commonly lacks both
the broad cultural education of the lib
eral college man and the practical
Judgment and adjustment to life of the
self-made mar. The liberal college
graduate may have acquired a broad
basis of culture, but lacks both the
theory and practical mastery of any
vocation. The self-made man makes
his way In the worlc. by having edu
cated himself In the school of hard
knocks, but he lacks both the theoret
ical mastery of the technically trained
r.-.an and the broad cultural Interests of
the liberal college graduate. At An
tioch we aim to unite all these ele
ments of personal development In a
single co-ordinated program.
Tills stirs up the whole question of
higher education —and it’s a his one,
with many ramifications and complica
tions The American people believe
in education. Every nook and cranny
of the nation has Its school. The
variety is wide —"Little Red School
house, ’’ high school, normal school, vo
cational school, technical school, ngrl- 1
cultural school, school of liberal arts, I
and what not. The policies of the
educators vary as widely. “Teach a
student to earn a living,” says one
school .of educators, “Tench a student
to think and let him tind himself inter,”
says another. “Find one student’s
aptitude and specialize on that,” says
a third. Parents send their children
to college from motives equally di
verse koine that the student may be
fitted to get the best out of life, some
that he may make influential friends
and some because it is the fashion.
Antiocli seems to lie sort of a com
promise among tin* many diverse
schools and policies—-a place where
you can eat your cake and have'it too.
And apparently you can—at Antioch.
Antiocli is neither old nor young, as
Ohio’s score of colleges go. It was
founded in 1853 by Horace Mann. It
Is at Yellow Springs, a small place in
the southwestern part of the state. It
is said, however, to in* the first college
to admit both sexes of every race on
equal terms. It is nonsectarian and
undenominational.
President Morgan appears to he al
most wholly self-educated. “Who’s
Who” makes no mention of any school
ing except that in the high school of
St. ('loud, Minn. And he certainly
practices what he preaches, inasmuch
as he is n civil engineer in active prac
tice as well as president of Antioch,
lie has engineering offices in both
Yellow Springs and Dayton.
He was horn In Cincinnati in IS7S.
the son of John P and Anna Prances
(Wi’ey) Morgan. He had a private
practice as a civil engineer In St.
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Cloud, 11)02-7. He then bccama super
vising engineer in charge of United
States government drainage investiga
tions and designs for reclamation
works in the southern states, planning,
among others, ttie *>8,000,000 project
for St. Francis valley, Arkansas. Since
11)09 he has been president of the Mor
gan Engineering company, lie was
appointed in 1913 chief engineer of the
Miami Conservancy district, de
signed to prevent recurrence of the
Dayton flood. Altogether lie has
planned and superintended the con
struction of 75 control projects.
His influence on drainage legislation
has been large; as he drafted codes
for the legislatures of Minnesota, Ar
kansas, Mississippi and Ohio. He is a
member of the American Association
of Civil Engineers and of the Society
for the Advancement of Engineering
(Edinburgh). He is also a member of
the executive committee of the League
to Enforce Peace, of the American
Unitarian association and of the Pro
gressive Education association. He is
a member of several clubs. Including
the Rotary. He is the author of sev
eral engineering works, of “Education,
the Mastery of the Arts of Life," and
of “New Light on the Boyhood of Lin
coln.” He lias been twice married.
His first wife died in 1905 and in 1911
lie married Lucy Middleton Griscom of
Woodbury, N. J.
It is easy to picture Antioch as a
place where you learn a trade while
going to college; where study is sub
ordinated to the necessity of earning
a living; where you can get in easily
without of an examination.
There is competent evidence that
this picture is all wrong. Antioch is
said to be a college of liberal arts in
all of the usual senses of the term,
with high standards of scholarship,
curriculum, mental application and
achievement necessary to graduation.
The student does woYk at an out
side job for regular current-rate wages.
These wages undoubtedly do help pay
the student's way. The job may also
result in his learning a trade, profes
sion or business. But the work of the
outside job is done wholly for its
i value as an indispensable part of the
student’s education. It is considered
as vital a factor in his education as
liis book-learning.
Nor Is it easy to got into Antioch.
The college sifts its applicants very
thoroughly for the kind of students it
wants. There were, it is stated, more
tivn C*(X) formal applications for the
”. r >o places in the freshman class ad-
I mitted last fall.
Now. there are several odd things
about the students’ jobs. One is the
half-and-half division of the student's
, time between study and job Another is
THE DANIELSVILLE MONITOR, DANIELSVILLE, GEORGIA.
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otiier nearby cities; a few are as far
away as Cleveland or even Philadel
phia. They are of almost every con
ceivable kind, “from farming to ste
nography, from common labor in a
foundry to translating advertising mat
ter from English into Chinese.” Sev
eral students have organized and op
erated business enterprises of their
own. One hundred and twenty busi
ness concerns co-operate with Antioch
in furnishing these jobs.
A synopsis of the curriculum at An
tioch shows courses in physical sci
ence—physics and chemistry; earth
sciences—astronomy, geology and pa
leontology; life sciences—biology; so
cial sciences—anthropology, economic
and political geography, history, eco
nomics: mental sciences—mathemat
ics, philosophy and psychology.
“Literature —Introducing the student
to the great treasuries of written wis
dhm, vision and aspiration; the finest
expressions of the great spirits of the
past; especially ‘to leave the student
with a life-long appetite for good read
ing; not, as formal courses about lit
erature sometimes do, with a feeling
of relief that ttie necessity for reading
is past.’ English composition is not
given as a separate subject; training
in writing and speaking is a part of
every course.
“Modern Languages and the Classics
—‘A survey of the sad results of the
teaching o modern languages in Amer
ican colleges,’ says the Antiocli Plan,
‘lias led Antiocli for the present at
least to make their study elective.’ Fa .
cilities are, however, afforded for the
! study of French and German, Latin
1 and Greek.
‘‘There are no separate courses in
ethics, moral science or religion.
•Only by contact with worth-while men
and women can fine purposes he in
spired'; It Is hoped that the dominant
result of the whole college program
will’ be ’a clarification and definition
of life purposes and the development
of social and moral responsibility and
human dignity.’”
’ President Morgan appears also to be
something of a preacher.. Ho made an
address in Unity church. Denver, on
Colorado Educational Sunday, in which
| he said, in part:
“The youth of today is skeptical,
i New Incentives to right conduct must
: be found to take the place of the out
| worn doctrine of heaven and hell. The
I young people now are asking, ’Why not
eat. drink and Ik* merry, for tomorrow
wo die? The young people in our col
: leges today are watching the leaders
to see that they do not rest on tradi
tion. The great passion among stu
dents today is for honesty and aceu
and the church must direct this
! tendency into lines of right conduct.’
that each job is held
by two students, who
constitute a “co
operating pair,” one
working while the
other studies. The
jobs are found by
the personnel de
partment of the col
lege and there are
always jobs to spare.
In these circum
stances the full col
lege course at An
tioch takes six years,
though exceptional
students can finish
in five. A few stu
dents are allowed to
omit the jobs and
graduate in four
years, but they have
to pay larger tuition
fees. Obviously this
system enables the
college to take care
of more students
than under the or
dinary plan.
The jobs held by
the students are
mostly in Dayton or
Story-and-a-Half House Is
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By WILLIAM A. RADFORD
Mr. William A. Radford will answer
questions and give advice FREE OF
COST on all subjects pertaining to the
subject of building, for the readers of
this paper. On account of his wide
experience as Editor, Author and
Manufacturer, he is, without doubt,
the highest authority on all these sub
jects. Address all inquiries to William
A. Radford, No. 18-7 Prairie avenue,
Chicago, 111., and only inclose two-cent
stamp for reply.
Spring will be here soon and with
spring comes the building season.
Those who have been planning to
build homes in the spring have prob
ably given a whole lot of thought
to the size of the house, the materials
of which it will be built, and the room
arrangement. This is a real job, but
it is an interesting one, and one that
is well worth t lie time and thought.
It is a costly matter to change, the
design of a home after it is started,
and if the home is not quite what
is wanted when it Is finished there is
disappointment. “Be sure you’re right,
then go ahead,” is an axiom that ap
plies well to the home building project.
All the information it is possible to
secure should be at hand in planning a
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home. Architects, building material
dealers and contractors are experi
enced home builders. From their ex
perience they have learned many
things that will be helpful to the pros
pective home builder. Those plan
ning to build should consult these
building specialists, as their sugges
tions will be helpful and their warn
ings valuable. ,
The home shown in the accompany
ing illustration offers a suggestion to
home builders. It is not an expensive
home to construct, and the materials
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are available everywhere. The frame
of 1 1 ie house is of timber, while tlie
outside walls are covered with stucco.
It contains seven good rooms, all large;
all the modern conveniences, including
a sleeping porch, and has an attractive
exterior appearance.
A steep pitched two-gable roof gives
room on tiie second deer for three
good-sized bedrooms and the bathroom,
besides an unusually large amount of
inset space. The dormer windows at
the front break the long roof line and
' to the appearance of the home.
■ exposed rafters of the room over
tlie porch lend a good touch, while the
porch itself, extending the width of
the house, is inviting and homelike.
The entrance door is in the center of
the house and leads directly into the
living room. This is a room that will
appeal to all prospective home build
ers. It is large and it is light, being
32 feet long and 15 feet wide. At the
front there are six windows, three on
each side of the entrance door, while
there are three more windows at each
end. The fireplace is set into the in
side wall and has a seat at one side. -
On the other side is a narrow door
leading to a short hall at the end of
which is a room, 14 by 15 feet, which
may be used as a library, den or bed
room. Off the hall is a lavatory.
A double cased opening, with col
onnade, leads to the dining room,
which is 1G feet G inches by 13 feet. A
slight bay contains three large win
dows. Set into the back wall is a
china cabinet. At the back is the
kitchen, 8 by 11 feet, with a large
pantry adjoining it.
Stairs to tiie second floor run out
of the living room. They lead to a
central hall, off which are three bed
rooms, the bathroom, and at the end
in the back is the sleeping porch. Each
of the bedrooms is of good size, the
one in front having the dormer win
dows, while the other two have the
windows in the gables of the house.
The pitcli of the roof somewhat re
duces the size of the rooms, but pro
vides closet space that every house
keeper likes.
Tlie dimensions of the house are 35
by 41 feet, and-.with the exception of
the bay in the dining room the nails
are straight. This Is the most econom
ical construction. A basement ex
tends under the whole house, providing
plenty of space for the heating plant,
the fuel storage room and rooms for
fruits and vegetables and storing of
the things that usually ere kept in the
bnsethent.
For the family that wants and
needs a home that is economical in
cost, good looking and comfortable and
contains three or four sleeping rooms
this design recommends itself. There
may be changes that are desired, but
that is a small matter, which the con
tractor or architect can take care o
without much trouble.
Indirect Lighting Came
as Result of Experiment
Many of the world’s great inventions
have been tlie result of chance. L*?
escaping steam from a' teakettle f?a' e
Watt tiie idea for his steam engine.
The way hot air filled and lifted a
shirt he was drying over the fire ga'
Montgolfier the inspiration for the
balloon. • - in
So it was with the discovery of in
direct lighting, Chance—and a i*
markable powerful, mirrored reflector
—brought about an altogether net
lighting method, better than had e\e
before been known. The incident ■
eurred ip a sickroom in the hoI " e _
a member of the X-ra> •’
where a light bulb hung, shaded by an
X-rav reflector. This reflector was re
markable in two ways pits silver-p
ed, • mirror-like surface reflec,e . '
greater quantity of light than any other
type of reflecting surface, and its si * r
and the arrangement of the cor
tions controlled the light ' and
rec-ted them in an absolutely <>
i The powerful light from t- '
'tor hurt the patient’s eyes. Her
| band inverted It; and fbr result :
so startling—so wonderful ; .
; stantly anew illuniinfting Pr
was established —indirec* hghtin-.
i source was an X-ray
1 feet a remarkable, soft, f are'
illumination throughout tne
Animals Trouble Telephones
Animal interference with te■’
■ service includes bears that •.
; the humming of wires for a
honey bees; squirrels that che ’\,' ad
in the lead sheath of cables; an *
beetles that eat metal, and >.
that throw their webs aero"
wires, causing short circuit
dew gathers on the web.