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With a formal education limited to just three years of high
school and six weeks at the University of Colorado,
Arthur Morgan seemed an unlikely college president. He was, however, one of
America's most brilliant flood-control engineers, and while directing the Miami Conservancy District dam project in
Dayton, Ohio, he was made a trustee of Antioch in 1919. By 1920 he had formulated a
plan for "industrial education," which stressed on-campus study alternated with
off-campus work, broad general education, and personal development in the student.
He became the obvious choice for president. Though he retained his office
until 1936, after 1933 Morgan had little time to concentrate on college affairs,
since Franklin D. Roosevelt had appointed him director of the Tennessee Valley Authority, perhaps the most ambitious
public works project in human history. In retirement he founded Community Service,
Inc. and authored several books. |
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