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Muskingum College Student

Rebels in the "Jazz Age"

 

 

 

 

 

 

by A. WILLIAM HOGLUND

 

 

 

During the 1920's Muskingum College of New Concord, Ohio, experienced

student unrest similar to that which engulfed many campuses. Never be-

fore had the student body challenged so threateningly the school's traditional

code of behavior, which embodied certain prescribed social, moral, and

spiritual values known as the "Muskingum Spirit."

Originally founded by Presbyterians as a small liberal arts college with-

out formal church sponsorship ih 1837, the institution had developed its

code in line with the religious heritage left by Scotch-Irish settlers in Ohio

and Pennsylvania. The founders were among those Presbyterians who

achieved unusual prominence on the frontier before the Civil War in setting

up colleges to prepare men for both the ministry and the missionary fields.1

Later, Muskingum became coeducational and was administered by the United

Presbyterian Church of North America, which had been formed by the

 

 

NOTES ARE ON PAGES 178-179