Kenyon College - Reveille Yearbook (Gambier, OH)

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BEXLEY HALL The Rev. William Foster Peirce. B. A., M. A.. L. H. D. President of the Seminary. The Rev. Hosea Williams Jones. D. D. Dean of the Seminary. Eleutheros Cooke Professor of Ecclesiastical History, Church Polity and Canon Law. Graduated from Bexley Hall. 1870. Held Parochial Charges at Ports- mouth. Ironton. Cincinnati and Brooklyn. King's College. Oxford University. D. D., Kenyon. 1884. B A' The Rev. Jacob Streihert, B. A., M. A., Ph. D. Griswold Professor of Old Testament Instruction. B. A.. Hamilton College. 1877. M. A. and Ph. D.. Hamilton College. Instructor in the Classics and German. Lowville Academy. N. Y. Berkley Divinity School. Middletown. Conn. Ordered Deacon. Or- dained Priest. 1881. Studied at Leipzig and Tuebingen. Germany. 1881. Rector of Zion Church. Fonda, and Christ’s Church. Glovers- ville. N. Y., 1882. Christ’s Church. West Haven. Conn.. 1882-85. Acting Professor of Greek. Kenyon College, 1885-90. Professor of Old Testament Instruction. Bexley Hall, 1885—. t B K 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. Rector of Parish at Fostoria, Ohio. 1891-93; at Mansfield. 1893-96. M. A.. Marietta, 1894. D. D., Marietta. 1898. Instructor in Dog- matic Theology, Bexley Hall, 1895-96. Professor of Dogmatic Theol- ogy. Bexley Hall. 1896-. A 2’ H h The Rev. Orville Ernest Watson. B. A.. B. D.. D. D. Professor of New Testament Instruction and Liturgies. B. A. Ohio Wesleyan. 1882. Bexley Hall. 1892. B. D.. Bexley Hall. D. D., Ohio Wesleyan. 1906. Minor Canon at Trinity Cathe- dral. Cleveland. 1892-1903. Professor of New Testament Instruction. Bexley Hall. 1903. K H K pife tweoty-aevrn

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THE SENIOR ORACLE SCRIBE of 1907 finds himself alone upon the mountain top—a rapt seer, deep in meditation, gathering sweet memories of the past, reveling in the present, and planning the sumptuous castles of the future in far away Spain. In all this his soul delights. He is the one in a great theater, who sees or knows none around him and only half dreamily hears the drowsy music of the orchestra sounding in his ears as though it were the quiet gurgling and splashing of a stream upon its rocky bed in the solitude of the forest on a summer s day. He is waiting for the curtain to rise upon the great drama shortly to be presented—the drama of the Life that is to be! And out of this indistinct harmony, he hears the words of the song:— “Kenyon, we linger ’Neath thy gray old walls and see Life’s ardent finger Beckoning us from thee. Then through tear drops starting Comes a thought which gives alloy To this sign of parting. Turning it to joy.' CJ It is a solemn, serious thought—a thought of all that Kenyon has meant to the class of 1907—the influences of our quiet, free, in- dependent life in this environment or the love ot the great world out- doors so near to Kenyon s heart and so intrinsically a part of our college life. No! We shall not begin to realize this until the curtain p»g« twenty-nine