In the days of its famed first president, Horace Mann (1853-59), Antioch College at Yellow Springs, Ohio, kept the world of education humming with new progressive ideas. To Antioch in 1920 went tall, baldish President Arthur Ernest Morgan with ideas even newer. President Morgan split the college's students into two groups, shipped one off for five-or-ten weeks of work in offices or factories while the other studied on the campus. No professional educator but an engineer who helped harness the turbulent Mi ami River after the Dayton flood of 1913, President Morgan was released on leave from Antioch three years...
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