Kenyon College - Reveille Yearbook (Gambier, OH)

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Greeting HE REVEILLE for 191 1 greets you. We have tried to give the story of another year; to picture the life in Gambier as it is; to increase the spirit so charac- teristic of our college; to add our interests and successes; to leave within these pages something, if only a little, of the beauty and the pleasant atmosphere of the Hill; and so recall to those who have been here before us, the delightful days of college. If this book but suggests the pleasures and the duties we have enjoyed, our purpose has been attained.

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Arthur Cleveland Hall Died June 23, J9J0 RTHUR Cleveland Hall, the Edwin M. Stanton Pro- fessor of Economics at Kenyon College, died in Gambier on the twenty-third of June, 1910. His passing was so unforeseen, and came so unexpectedly after the exercises of Commencement, during which he appeared in his usual robust health, that the college scarcely credited the report when it reached us that day; both his associates and friends here and his relatives in Con- necticut were shocked beyond measure upon hearing the death of one so able, so accomplished, and such a lover of out-door sports, and the news of his sad departure was scarcely able to be believed. His death resulted from a sudden attack of acute indigestion and came at a time when his work was most valuable to our college. Dr. Hall was born in 1865 in Middletown, Connecticut, of an old and distinguished family. His mother was the daughter of Bishop Jarvis of Connecticut, and his father a prosperous merchant and at one time a partner of A. T. Steward; another relative was a Com- modore in the United States Navy and his ancestors fought in the Revolutionary War. From them he inherited valuable books, paintings and furniture which adorned his home here in Gambier where so many times the college enjoyed his delightful hospitality. He graduated from Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, in the class of 1888, where he was a member of the Delta Psi Fraternity, and he was afterwards elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He devoted several years to journalism and business; was Assistant Superintendent of the exhibit of the Bureau of Charities and Corrections at the World’s Fair in 1893, and in 1894 he served as Lecturer in Criminology at Johns Hopkins University. His next appointment was to the fellow- ship in Sociology at Columbia, which he held for three years, engaged at the same time in settlement work in New York City. In 1901 he was granted the degree of Ph. D by Columbia; he then taught for a year at Princeton, and was called to Kenyon in 1904 as the Edwin M. Stanton Professor of Economics. While here. Dr. Hall spent one summer near Buffalo as special agent of the U. S. Bureau of Corporations, to investigate the great industries of that city, and another summer he was a delegate to the National Conference of Charities. At another time, he visited the eleven