Civil War veteran, judge, and longtime Antioch trustee Lewis Montgomery Hosea’s 1915 Reunion Banquet remarks — Hosea served on the Board (1913-1924) during Antioch’s adoption of the co-operative education “Antioch Plan.”
Olive Trader (class of 1913) recounts, as Girls’ Association president, organizing a Washington’s-birthday social pageant that drew a stern reprimand from College president Dr. Fess just days before the event.
A February 1908 memorial address delivered at All Souls Unitarian Church in Washington, DC by Jennie Weeks Scudder (class of 1870), honoring Lucy Salisbury Doolittle (an Antioch student from the College’s 1853 opening) and her Civil War-era service with the U.S. Sanitary Commission.
A detailed firsthand account of Antioch’s 1881 suspension and 1882-83 reopening under the Christian Educational Society, Horace Mann’s monument dedication, and two decades of campus history through the 1890s — undated within the source, placed at the end of the period it covers.
Former Speaker of the U.S. House J. Warren Keifer, an Antioch trustee and Union Army veteran, delivers the June 1885 Commencement Day dedication of a marble tablet memorializing Antioch students who died in the Civil War, centered on the story of Marion Ross.
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