Kenyon College - Reveille Yearbook (Gambier, OH)

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EDITORIAL. 11 so. Me wislr to see Kenyon greater than she has ever been. With increased facilities for teaching, we wish her to invite men to her halls, assuring them their manhood will be respected. Manhood is even now respected when shown, but childishness is the common development of the present system of marking. We believe in such a time as we speak of more fully than we believe in woman suffrage. Accord- ing to our faith be it done unto us. The true student is your model for life. His way of meet- ing trouble and shirking duty is worthy of imitation. For method he is not responsible, since over this he has no con- trol, and o'nly on compulsion can he be methodical, llis chief merit is submission. Learn from him that “when you must you’d better.” That he lives is proof that any one may live. For with poor dinners, worse breakfasts, and no sup- pers, death would be welcome to common men. The student survives. In resignation more than Christian, he excels. Nine-tenths of each class were once palpitating aspirants for the valedictory. Hut see them, as honors vanish, grow fat and contented. They cease to have a lean and hungry look, and make the most of life. No malice, no revenge, but a profound sympathy for any one who will climb so far for sour grapes. Our college life is as complete as any we shall see in the body; and with all its hopes and failures, high ambitions and petty vexations, it is the most happy. (© S ———

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oA.9 here is an evil that is not done under the sun. Unlike those known to Solomon, this delights in moonlight or darkness. The student whose bones are broken in his return from the stars, whither he has been shot out of a blanket, knows what we mean. The remedy seems simple. Let the civil law have the same power to protect person and property in College as elsewhere. The student will receive greater satisfaction, if he desires vengeance, in damages assessed by law, than in the expulsion of his tormentors. The common charities of college life sufliciently tax the student, and it may be easier to arrive unexpectedly at home than to obtain money to pay costs and damages. We do not entreat for ourselves the chance of such penal- ties without something in return. Much of the minutia; of college life might bo dispensed with, to the ease of one party and the quiet of the other. The test of honest labor should be the class room and not the manner of spending the re- maining time. Punctuality and order in the divisions of the day are sufliciently taught by the required recitations. The necessary college announcements could be made at a daily prayer, which, it might be impressed on the student, was a religious duty, and not a numbering of the Hock to see if any wanderer might be on that descensus Averni—the road to Mt. Vernon. This implies something broader and more manly than is customary iu our college government. Exactly

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FFICERS OF THE NSTITUTIONS. FACULTY OP KENYON COLLEGE. ELI T. TAPP AN, A. M., President, Spencer and Wolfe Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy. JOHN TRIMBLE, A. M., Professor of the Greek Language and Literature. REV. EDWARD C. BENSON, A. M., Professor of the Latin Language and Literature. THEODORE STERLING, A. M., M. D‘., Bowler Profcsssor of Natural Philosophy and Chemistry. Rev. GEO. A. STRONG, A. M., Mcllvalne Professor of English Literature and History. WM. WOOLSEY JOHNSON, A. M., Peabody Professor of Mathematics, Civil Engineering and Astronomy. OTHER OFFICERS. Rt. Rev. G. T. BEDELL, D.D., Hector of Harcourt Parish. Rev. WM. B. BODINE, Assistant Itoctor of Harcourt Parish. Rev. J. J. MoELHINNEY, D. D., Librarian of Theological Seminary. Rev. EDWARD C. BENSON, A. M., Librarian of Kenyon College. M. WHITE, Agent and Treasurer. Principal of Ken you Grammar School. E. B. CARTMILL, A. B., Tutor in Kenyon Grammar School. JOHN G. BLACK, Tutor in Kenyon Grammar School and College Monitor.