Kenyon College - Reveille Yearbook (Gambier, OH)

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such a heritage bequeathed to us. why should not the men of 1907 take up their work and plunge boldly forward to the task. We hear the call of the Future:— “ No man is born into this world whose work Is not born with him; there is always work. And tools to work withal, for those who will; And blessed are the horny hands of toil! ’’ CJ The Oracle has spoken and the scribe received the same. It is for us to give our hit of answer to that call. €| In the great theatre, again the scribe sits—alone. The lights are out and the quiet of the darkness is broken only by the soft subdued music of the orchestra. Suddenly there is a thrill of sound and the music pours out its soul in a wild ecstasy. The stage is illumined in a blaze of light. The curtain rises ! R. one

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is raised and we Have taken up our cue, and plunged into the action of the play in real earnest. But Here, indeed. Have we proved our prow- ess in tHe skirmisH line. We Have met tHe enemy and they are ours. We come forward now to be dubbed Sir Knigbt and to go forth as sons of Kenyon, tried and true. CjJ There are some in these days who talk loudly of a certain Univer- sity of Hard Knocks and boast the superiority of its curriculum over such as that outlined in the catalog of Kenyon College. To those noble men who have climbed the mountain heights, have been tried by the fire, and are now the distinguished representatives of this well- known university, there is naught but the highest praise and apprecia- tion. They have fought a good fight, a hard fight, lured to the rocks by the Lorelei and all but escaping the bitterness of shipwreck and de- struction. Indeed it is a stern discipline; it strengthens the sinews and summons up the blood, but after all, it hardens the heart—it breaks the heart! No doubt we shall be spared many of these bitter hours, but we too shall pass through our Slough of Despond and climb the mount of Difficulty and if we have learned here our lesson well, pass through them triumphant, and bring our honors to the feet of our Alma Mater. A burst of glorious music and the scribe finds himself recounting successes here and there, not with the old leaven of selfish pride, but with the new leaven of humility and satisfaction in striving and doing. We have had our failures, too. But, greatest of all, we have learned to know and love each other as only Kenyon men do, and we know, too. that when we hear the call, Surge, Baccalaurei! ” it shall mean more to us than the completion of certain study books. We have learned, as the Autocrat learned, to believe in life rather than in books, and that humanity is found after all, in deaths and births, in loves and hates, triumphs and defeats, and sorrows and joys. With P S thirty

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Nineteen Hundred and Seven Cl ass Off! cers Lester Leake Riley Jacob Hyde Ewalt, Jr. Charles Chauncey Winsor Judd Clarence Cecil Underwood Harold Mansfield Eddy Hugh Wilson Patterson President Vice-President Secretary . Treasurer Historian Toastmaster Cl ass Colors Blue and Old Gold Cl ass Yell P« e thirty-two Purgatory, Hell, Heaven ! One Nine Nought Seven!