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sW-2-JOC'fI At* Y&ZZOhr- OHIO Lducahoff by dook—Learn IT c7/7c/ a Job —Fifty -Fifty $ 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. ( J v ' . -1. lor 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. aSS^^T 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 Attractive and Comfortable ' ' •' I ' 1 ■' ■< ■'< < ~ „ ■. 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 1 Dedo^pmJ j 14'x 1.5' f DMINSBH. p| j fijRE. Flacj: fj \ Livingßm. I ji 3£'*l3‘ | I fRONTftaH h ® • •• {■} — ® -- - I==7- I First Floor Plan. 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 pLEEPINCPOPCH j -iST aTIT I'tarr L JL_! [.-sahu i Dedßm. hDedßm j vHall M a Icl " l Oedßm j •* *• -I- ♦-■■*- ' Second Floor Plan. 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.