Kenyon College - Reveille Yearbook (Gambier, OH)

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4 SALUTATION. We are glad to be able to say that no changes have taken place among the College officers during the past two years, not because we think the Faculty are the nicest fellows in the world, but we believe coustant changes do not tend to the advancement of the College. During the early years of our College life, we had to be introduced to new Presidents and Professors at the beginning of each term; accordingly the number of acquaintances we have made in this manner is surprising. However, there have been some improvements made in Cambier, which we take pleasure in recounting. The long waited for whistle of the locomotive can almost be heard echoing through the valley of the Kokosing. The completion of the railroad to Cambier was promised by the 1st of December, but it will be a month or two before the track will be laid and trains running to this point. It be- hooves us to mention a change, or rather a reform in this “sweet village.” There has not been a good theological light for a year or more; though such a nice little opportunity .as the “Cheney case” offered, was not allowed to pass unim- proved. The religious precept in Cambier is very different from the religious example. The inhabitants of Gambier “keep the noiseless tenor of their way;” the students still “go supperless to bed;” bills flow in with their accustomed regularity, and the weekly “Sewing Circle” continues to supply the place of a news- paper. Let no graduate, returning to visit College, be afraid that his arrival will he unknown, for the gossips will spread the news like wild-lire, especially if he has been what is termed a “ little fast.” “Charity covers a multitude of sins;” but charity confessed her inability to take the contract for Gambier.

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4 eA) IHENDg OF KENYON: It is with diffidence we take upon ourselves the tedious and thankless task of Editors; but as wo have labored faithfully to make the Reveille of ’72 consistent with the pre-eminence of the Class in other respects, wo cannot doubt that it will meet with your approval. Probably, if we were Freshmen, the task would have been undertaken without the slightest fear of failure,and without the least superabundance of modesty; but, being Seniors, “we know we do not know anything.’} Hence our diffidence. The attention of our readers—the Reveille is sold by sub- scription—is called to the increase of literary productions, which the pamphlet of this year contains, as formerly a Salutation and Editorial were deemed enough; probably, they were. It is for yon to judge. The praise does not belong to us alone for thus leaving the beaten path made by our pre- decessors; but to the Professor of English Literature also, who lias inculcated in us an increased taste for literary exer- cises, both by his precept and example. It is exceedingly proper that our Class, which entered College at the same time that the Professor took his seat among the Faculty, should be the first to take this step in the right direction.

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SALUTATION. But the brief task imposed upon us must end. We cannot close without speaking of our Class. In many ie pccts it is one of the best classes ever graduated from this institution; in saying this we do not express the sentiments of ourself alone, but those of the Faculty. The College days will long be remembered, and only the pleasant ones. Friendships have been formed here which will bo the most lasting that we shall ever make on this earth. AV hen we look back, we will not see boarding houses, nor think ot the suspicious looks which certain brazen-faced matrons cast upon our drooping eyelids at church, on the mornings aftei Saturday nights; but we will call to mind the “ special recitation in History, and recollect our having helped to “toss the Freshmen’ in September, 1871, and how the President never heard of it. Classmates, we dedicate the results of our labor in prepar- ing the Reveille to you, and will say “jamquc vale. ’