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Antiochiana – Songs from the Stacks: Ada Shepard to Mary Richardson 7 Feb 1858
Antiochiana - Songs from the Stacks Ada Shepard to Mary Richardson 7 Feb 1858 Commemorating Women’s History Month, Stacks draws from one of the few manuscript collections Antiochiana had ever purchased from a dealer, the Mary Richardson Letters. Mary’s college...
Antioch College Launches President’s Initiative Campaign
Antioch College Launches President’s Initiative Campaign Transformational Program Seeks to Provide Educational Opportunities for All Students, Secure Future of Historic and Influential Institution Today, as the world celebrates Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, the Antioch...
Antiochiana – Songs from the Stacks: Gloom, Study, Grades Forgotten As Social Events Fill Holiday
Antiochiana - Songs from the Stacks Gloom, Study, Grades Forgotten As Social Events Fill Holiday Happy New Year, Antiochians! No aspect of American life escaped the impact of the Great Depression, especially the Christmas holiday. Life at Antioch College in the 1930s...
Antioch College Achieves Fundraising Goal Through Generous Support
Successful “Antioch Activate” Campaign Keeps College Moving Forward Yellow Springs, Ohio 1-9-23 — Antioch College launched the “Antioch Activate” campaign in September of 2022 with a goal of raising $2.5M by December 31, 2022. Through a total of 1,413 generous...
Antioch College Awarded Choose Ohio First Funds
Competitive Scholarship Funds of $495,000 Over Five Years to be Awarded Yellow Springs, Ohio 12-19-22 — Antioch College has been awarded $495,000 as part of the FY23 Choose Ohio First (COF) Program. Over the next five years, these competitive scholarship funds will be...
Antiochiana – Songs from the Stacks: Mary Mann to Nathaniel Peabody 16 & 27 Dec 1853
Horace Mann spent his first Christmas as president of Antioch College on the road. Mary Mann describes the celebration in a letter to her father back in Boston. The week before she sent Dr. Peabody a letter from his grandsons Benjamin Pickman Mann and George Combe...
Antiochiana – Songs from the Stacks: The Gannett Report
Antioch College’s long relationship with the Unitarian-Universalist Association actually predates Antioch College itself. There might not have ever been an Antioch at all had the Unitarian Association and the College’s founding denomination, the Christian Church,...
Antiochiana – Songs from the Stacks: The Antioch College Meteorite Story
No one can say with any certainty when or how inspiration will strike. The inspiration for this particular Songs From The Stacks came from a researcher who contacted Antiochiana about a visitor from space that came to campus in 1901, but not that kind of visitor from...
A Buffalo Grazing: Golden Moments in Time
It is heading to mid-September in Southwest Ohio and Ohio is starting to preview its’ coming attractions. A drive through the gently undulating countryside down Dayton-Yellow Springs Road and to the Antioch College Campus provides clues that Yellow Springs’ golden...
Antiochiana – Songs from the Stacks: Critic At Large
Earle Reynolds (1910-1998) grew up in show business, the son of trapeze artists. Despite a passion for the theater that never left him, he became an academic instead of an acrobat. He studied Anthropology at the University of Chicago and the University of Wisconsin....