Kenyon College - Reveille Yearbook (Gambier, OH)

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- ..-.. 1 Kenyon of Cozdav The beauty of Gambier has a wide reputation, and one constantly hears testimony to it from the most diverse quarters. Although there are here, as in other less beautiful spots, the ordinary vicissitudes of weather and of life, they seem never to disturb the old world quiet and h 11

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majestic serenity of the place. Perhaps the calm and repose are attrib- utable to the fact that here, as in few other inhabited places, nature reigns, and human habitations are subordinate. It is difficult to speak of the beauty of Kenyon in terms which will not appear at once exag- gerated to a stranger, and inadequate to one who knows and loves the college, for one who has stood in the Kenyon park on a summer even- ing, with the soft music of the chimes in his ear, and surrounded by the delicious fragrance of a thousand trees and vines, who, on the one hand, has looked across the smiling valley and distant hills, and, on the other, has caught glimpses between the trees of the gray old college buildings, and of the gleaming cross of the church above the mass of verdure con- secrating the whole scene, has felt a charm, not wholly sensuous, which no lapse of time or change of scene can obliterate. The natural situation of the college is singularly favorable, com- manding, as it does, a View of the fertile valley of Kokosing, with a gentle undulating back-ground of cultivated hills. As Gambier Hill is a promontory, as it were, projecting into the valley, the college park com- mands a wide prospect on three sides. The natural charm of situation has been enhanced by the rare good taste of the founders and friends of the college. In the park, which comprises seventy-five acres, as many as possible of the old forest trees have been retained, and pains have been taken to combine the effects of lawn and of woodland. The exten- 12