Kenyon College - Reveille Yearbook (Gambier, OH)

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THE REV. DAVID' FELIX DAVIES, B. A., M. A., D. D. Milnor and Lewis Professor of Dogmatic Theology, Moral Theology, and Christian Evidences. B. A. Marietta College, 1874. Lane Seminary of Cincinnati, 1876. i Rector of parish at Fostoria, Ohio, 1891-93, at Mansiield, 18 3-96. M. A., Marietta, 1894. D. D., Marietta, 1898. In- 9 structor in Dogrnatic Theology Bexley Hall, 1895-96. Profes- sor of Dogmatic Theology, Bexley Hall, 1896 -. A 2 fb, fIJBK. THE REV. ORVILLE ERNEST WATSON, B. A., B. D. Professor of New Testament Instruction and Liturgics. B. A., Ohio Wesleyan, 1882. Bexley Hall, 1892. B. D., Bexley Hall. Minor Canon at Trinity Cathedral, Cleveland, 1892-1903. Acting Professorof New Testament Instruction, Bexley Hall, 1903,-. 41Kw,fbBK. U 28

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Senior Regrets A Senior is like the god Janus, he has two faces, one set toward the future, the other toward the past. The first is the possession of every young man, the second is not. Strength and hopefulness are not generally associated with a face set toward the past. The combination is the peculiar property of the college Senior. And for this there is surely reason. What other man has a past with so much of good in it? What other man has a past that, despite all dreams of the future, can keep his attention chained to itself? There are but few others. Indeed it is doubtful if there are any. And if we can say- this of college Seniors in general, how much truer is it of Kenyon men! When we look back over our college course, of which the end is now so swiftly approaching, must we not feel that our life here on the hill has approached as closely to the ideal as any life can? At least if it has not, the fault lies with us and not with our environment. Our college career has offered us work without worry, combined with that amount of recre- ation necessary to make work a pleasure. Better than this, it has oEered us that excellent combination, something that is at once re- creation and work, activity undertaken for the pure love of it, but requiring effort to accomplish it creditably. But above all, the years on the hill have given us friendship and the feeling of good fellowship. This may well be Kenyon's glory. She may not out- rank other colleges in equipment or material resources, but you must search far and wide before you find another six score men that make but one great family. That is it what we are leaving, and is it any wonder that the past occupies our thoughts as much as the future? For a few T 31