Kenyon College - Reveille Yearbook (Gambier, OH)

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BOARD OF EDITORS Editor-in-Chief Maxwell Budd Long, ♦ Y Associate Editors James Madison Smith, A K E Harold Bramwell Williams, A T A Art Editor James William Upson, A At Artist Clarence Coles Phillips, A A 4 Business Manager Karl Robinson Ricketts, B 0 n

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With honest admiration and respedt we dedicate this book to William Peters Reeves.

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PREFACE KENYON COLLEGE leans back with conscious pride on her venerable traditions and complacently hears herself called old-fashioned and behind the times. Hanna Hall, the new water-works, and, to some, even the Steam heat in the buildings will seem rank intru sions of modem conveniences. To such we must excuse ourselves for this attempt to embody in a rare specimen of the modem book-maker’s art the mellowed customs of the little college. Our readers themselves may judge of our sue cess at harmonizing the two elements. ® The appearance of the book we have aimed to keep almoSt severely chaSte and simple,—above all, agreeable to sight and touch, so that the volume may commend itself, not merely to those who have the interests of Kenyon at heart, but to anyone catching sight of it. The Japanese parchment, the old-face type, the plain paper cover, all betray the same purpose. We have cherished originality; but we have zealously tried to avoid the freakishly novel. The half-tones, tipped in, in publishers’ language, may at firSt seem factitious, but we would remind our readers that high-grade half-tones cannot be made on the parchment; besides, on closer thought, they do not seem to be really out of keeping with the general tone of the volume. 5 The Board felt highly complimented when the remark was made that more men in college have been at work on this Reveille” than on any which Kenyon has ever yet produced. Such indeed, is a Statement of our working P e« elwn