Kenyon College - Reveille Yearbook (Gambier, OH)

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away, and here and there bright silver-like specks began to appear. And further, on account of these things, the heap was assuming a spherical shape. T his change consumed most of the first year. At the beginning of the second year another great alteration occurred. The spheroid, although it remained stationary, on account of an inside force began to revolve, slowly indeed at first. It is true already at this time this object also began to grow smaller, as often, some particle not being able to adapt itself to such an environment would drop from the sphere and roll off the Hill. But the surface quickly grew light and polished. As the revolution increased, it became evident that this sphere was not a useless thing. The light from its polished surface reflected many accomplishments. Its power has brought success in scholarship, athletics, dramatics, social festivities, wholesome fellowship and all other activities that surrounded the great center. Thus for two years this sphere, once a dirt colored mass, now a highly polished globe, remained near the Pole of attraction, shedding its light of good influence and at the same time taking on a higher polish on account of the friction with other bodies. During this long period the sphere gradually grew smaller and the revolution became greatly accelerated. The fourth year the sphere, on account of its high rate of turning, and also because of a larger sphere crowding from below, slowly begins to move away from the Power that attracted its particles. This Power has been absorbed and will always be retained as an ingredient. The history of the sphere from this point is told purely from a vision seen in its surface. It is known to all that this body cannot remain a unit without some external power of attraction, so its breaking down is expected. Accord- ing to all natural law, if the sphere continues moving in its present path, it cannot fail to strike a disintegrating agent on June twenty-second. It is now expected that it will separate into seventeen parts, although there is just now some doubt as to this conjecture. The divided parti- cles will then roll away into the future. Their location will be far apart, even separated by oceans, but wherever placed, each within itself will possess those wholesome characteristics which go to make up a true Kenyon man. L. F. E. V page thirty-six

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Metamorphoses (Senior Class) WHEN we look backward and view life in the day of the classics, we are sure to be struck with that unbounded fulness of action, charming romanticism and mystic imagery that charac- terizes that age. Every phase of that life seems to appeal to us as those secret joys of our childhood days. No one was ever employed with the uninteresting prosaic duties which take so much time today. At present, life seems to lack all those coveted diversities. There is no place for those phases of life. Each day is taken with the com- mon-place occupations of this commercial, monopolistic age. But here in Gambier, living outside the pale of representative American life, let us put on the spectacles of the old man of the East and view in that light the history of the Senior class. So the class today is symbol- ized by a sphere, a sphere of bright silver mercury. This sphere reflects in all directions: backward over the four years of its making; and on account of its extreme brightness, forward so that visions of the future may be seen. Four years ago, early in September, upon the plain of Kenyon’s campus some forty small drops of mercury came rolling in from all directions. Kenyon had proved to be a strong magnet for this quality of mercury, for tracing the paths these small globes had taken, one finds that they came not only from all parts of this country but also from over fair Atlanta. At the center of attraction it took only a very short time for these numerous globules to consolidate into a unified mass. The result was an irregular, dark colored heap of ellip- tical shape on the surface of which could be seen large splotches of green. But this green looking heap was not long to remain thus. Outside influence in the shape of gonks, minstrel shows and class fights began to effect this mass. Large sections of the green impurities fell page thirty-five

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Nineteen Hundred and Ten CLASS OFFICERS Harry Swayne Lybarger...........................................President Arthur Lisenby Sackctt ....... Vice-President Alva Irwin Hardy................................................Secretary Walter Fuller Tunks ....... Treasurer William John Bland ........ Toastmaster Lyle Fox Emerine ........ Historian CLASS COLORS Blue and Gold. CLASS YELL Hika, Hika, Once again! Hika, Kenyon. Nineteen Ten page thirly-ieven