Kenyon College - Reveille Yearbook (Gambier, OH)

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4 SALUTA TION. with more benefit and glory to ourselves. We could perhaps spend an hour in pointing out the way to those we see toiling after us. But who starting out in life seeks advice, or follows it, if he does? If we only trace out the analogy, we shall find that our College life is very much like that in the world beyond. We have our ambitions, our triumphs and defeats. Some of us are politicians too; and feel now and then the bitter jealousies which inflame politicians of a wider sphere. With as much temptation, we are better able to bear it; with a more intimate connection with men, we can more successfully study human nature. Instead of sending out the household pet to grapple with the world before he has overcome his homesickness, it is much more considerate to send him where sharper and kindlier critics will point out his errors, and help him in a gentler way to correct them. We know not yet how it will be, but are eager for the fray; and feel all the more able to cope with the world for our four years tarrying in Jericho.

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t Y ahttation. IE GREET YOU, kind friends, and hope that our Re- ; VEILLE may awaken in your minds pleasant memories of days gone by. Gambier is the quiet little village it has always been. True, we have a railroad now; but that has only scared the owls and whippoorwills away. It has neither corrupted our morals, nor brought us new students. Y e have not yet even a barber. What enthusiastic young gentleman of African descent will drive his tri-colored post into Gambier soil, and cultivate our now incipient beards for next Commencement? Would that we might impress upon the world the fact, that the Class of Seventy-three is the best Kenyon ever graduated. And surely a little vanity would be pardoned us. Indeed, our hu- mility would be Uriah Hecp-ish, did we not claim for ourselves some credit for the conscientious work which has been done in Kenyon during the past year, it will sweeten our memories of Alma Mater to think that we always treated her with fdial respect. To be sure, we were guilty of some Freshman extravagances and Sophomore follies. Hut when we became Juniors we seemed to put away childish things; and since then ours has been a pretty fair record. And now, as we look back upon the road over which we have travelled for so long a time, we see many stumbling-stones, many rocks of offence. There are courses in which we might have run

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 EDITORIAL. 5 IIE EXPRESSION, “ Times change, and we change with time,” is true as well as time-honored ; and our short Gol- lege course has undoubtedly verified it, and added one more link to its already strong chain. College is a little world in itself; and as the tendency of the age is that of progress and reform, likewise we pride ourselves that it is the same in our own little sphere. True, the changes which we have experienced have not been of an alarmingly striking nature; nor would we be apt to notice them, perhaps, unless by reverting to the earliest stages of our College course, and comparing them with the present. They have crept in so slowly and stealthily, that at the time they were scarcely noticeable, and are even now hard to be accounted for. Upon the whole, we would say that they have been for the better. Many old College customs, it is true, have been slowly eradicated ; and, although by their disappearance the enjoyment of many has been somewhat diminished, still we can not but acknowledge that it is better for the College that it should be so; for the enjoy- ments which have been denied us might, perhaps, be styled of the rougher sort. But whether we have been infected by our sur- roundings—not of the College—which bid defiance to change, or by a spirit of pride and unwillingness, that what have hitherto been termed College rights should be lost in our day, we know