Kenyon College - Reveille Yearbook (Gambier, OH)

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SALUTATION. A chapel lias been erected during the past year, unsurpassed by any Church in the State in beauty «1' architecture. As far ■ as ink, paper and suggestion go, the friends of Kenyon are active and numerous. The contributions to the College during the past year are as follows: 44 Standard of the Cross,”....................8 columns. “The Grizzly Collegency,” .... 1 44 Other papery...................................2 44 Total,......................11 columns and no cents. How much sweetness to waste on the desert air. 44 Would, my lord, that our waste were less, and our means greater.” The “Collegency,” published by a school in Iowa, has taken our Sophomores to task for the publication of the outlawed sheet of last commencement. As Kenyonites we how before the just rebuke, and confess that it is indeed “humiliating” to be compelled to pass under the rod of our 44bully rook” of the prairies. But we must own toa feeling of enmity towards him for taking our words out of our mouth, for we had intended to make capital out of the same theme for our edito- rial. But we will now forbear, inasmuch as the above-men- tioned article thoroughly exhausts the subject, the reader, and—let us ho| e—the writer also. The author, who we take for granted is a Freshman, has not yet learned inter Collegi- ate courtesy, else he would not have charged all Kenyon ites who are not indecent with tameness. We are sorry to see that the “Standard of the Cross,” in treating ol the same subject, has made several misstatements, the most flagrant of which is that these papers appear annu- ally. As far as we are able to learn, this is but the third pub- lication of the kind dining the forty years of our Alma Mater’s existence.

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SALUTATION. • immorality at College is confined to the lower classes. By the Junior year the student lias either sown his wild oats, or lias left College for reasons best known to the faculty. The practices against which we warn the lambs are the roots of all evil at College. They give birth to the sluggard, and the | eiidthrift, and until they are eradicated let us forbear from giving any theoretical dissertation. Freshmen, you are at the forks of roads which do not meet again through life. One leads into the bracing air of true manhood; along the other the atmosphere grows fouler the further you advance. Farewell! Our blessings season this in thee. As chroniclers, we take pleasure in welcoming President Tappsin to Kenyon, an accomplished gentlemen, and an enter- prising, enthusiastic worker in behalf of our Alma Mater, e are loth to record the resignation of Professor Felwell. His exertions during the few months he was with ns have taught us how to appreciate his loss. As yet, no martyr has Ih cii found to till the Professor’s place. W e find, also, from a perusal of old Reveilles, that it devolves upon us to say that the duties in Philo, and Nil Pi Kappa are performed much better than in former years, but t we will not vouch lor the truth of the statement; although they are Imth prosperous, and the exercises show proof of the inestimable benefit derived from the teachings of Pro- fessor Strong. Indeed we do not see how we could ever have done without him; and may we not do without him for many long years. It is our-province, also, to note the prosperity of Milnor Hall, We regret that the Paene class of last year did not return to tnke its place among the sub-fresh. We hear he lias entered active business. He was a pleasant fellow, and we are sorry to have lost him.

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SALUTATION. 7 When we look back over the past three years of our Col- lege life, and mark the unsettled state of the faculty and the general dissatisfaction of the students thereat, we may thank our stars that but one detestable sheet has marked the course of so many misfortunes. And we think we can promise for Kenyon, that if we are left in the undisturbed enjoyment of our present faculty, many years will elapse before we are sub- jected to such another disgrace.