The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1921-05-20
Ohio Institution Will Put Prac.
tice Before Theory
BY Newspaper Enterprise.

ny new SINIVT EutcTpEbSc
Yellow Springs, Ohio, May 90
Practice takes precedence over theory
under the new plan of Antioch col.
lege. This for the first time in the
history of modern colleges.
The new policy results from put
ting practical engineer at the head
Of the college. He is Arthur T.. Nor
gan, who supervised the food pre-
venti0n projects in the Miami Valley
near Dayton, O..
"The success of the small colleg ;
n this country depends on its abil.
'ty to pick out some small part of the
educational problem and do It bette
than the big university does it, says
Morgan.
! To Train Employers.
antioch has chosen the field OF
raining proprietors men who are tc
be employers, not employees. The
number Of people in the United States
who. are managers Of their own time
and resources, rather than employees
working under direction, aggregate
several millions.
"This number includes farmers.
merchants, contractors, manufactur-
ers and professional men and women
in private practice. Successful man.
agement requires very definite
type of ability. The manager must
have the ability to coordinate all ele
ments into an organic whole.
"He must have sound knowledge
of men and affairs and a personality
developed in foresight, caution, cour.
age, tact and initiative"
Students Training.
Students will spend part of their
time in classroom and part of it in
establishments where they can gain
practice in their professions.
They will contract for jobs, buy
supplies, complete the job, collect the
money and divide the profits. They
will be )thrown on their own re-
sources. =
All of this is new, but Antioch col
lege is old. 1t was founded in 1853
with Horace Mann as its first presi
dent The entire student body enlist
ed in the Civil war, The men as SOL
diers, the women as nurses.
Antioch was a leader under Horace
Mann in offering equal opportunities
to men and women. Women will be
admitted with men to the new courses
in managership and proprietorship.
Special attention will be paid tC
athletics and physical condition Of
students.
= And about Morgan, new head of the
college Says one Of his associates
"He works three times as hard as
any other man. Doesn't know how
to play-not even golf. Likes high
brow music and lectures, but hasn't
time for popular theatricals. His
pleasure is in seeing his work prove
successful and being able to do things
WE'LL"
He established the Morgan Engi-
neering Company of Memphis, Tenn.
He supervised some of the biggest
drainage jobs in the south.
He is As, married and has three
children. He is president of the Ma
tional Progressive Education Associa-
tion. -..a
"My aim is to help the student find
himself" says Morgan, ITO help him
to a well-proportioned development
of personality through cultural
courses, leaving him with a keen ap-
petite for knowledge; to build in him
sound character; to arouse enlighten-
ed moral enthusiasm so that his whole
preparation for life will be but g
means of making him good citizen.
good parent; to make him man
who for himself has found the signifi-
cance of life as a whole" ..