Kenyon College - Reveille Yearbook (Gambier, OH)

Page 10 text:

mancis of a changed world, Kenyon renewed her ties with tradition. Lord Kenyon, great- great-great-grandson of the College's orig- inal benefactor visited Gambier with his bride and reaffirmed traditional family in- terest. Fraternities grew stronger than before. Old clubs were revived; new clubs flourish. Lacrosse, track, tennis, and horsemanship returned. The curriculum expands. Sing- ing down the path is again a regular thing. The spirit has returned. And so the changes have come with his- tory. Thomas Jefferson died in the year Kenyon was founded. A war between Amer- icans sent nine Kenyon men south to face their northern friends in war. A world war which was never won ended to give Kenyon great expansion and yet led to the dark days of a second vast catastrophe. But from the new darkness and sorrow came a greater understanding of Kenyon's purpose. As the sun rises in the eastern, morning sky, all Kenyon men, her faithful friends, old and new, from the entire world feel that Kenyon is taking the place that the world demands of her.

Page 12 text:

Gordon Keith Chai.mers A.B. (Brown), M.A. (Oxon.), Ph.D. (Harvard), LLD. (H... bart), Litt.D. (Rockford and Brown), I..H.D. (Ripon) President J N THE hearts and minds of school children and college students what is needed most is a way to look, an understanding which is, philosophically speaking, so new to our century that new teachers must be trained to teach it, old teachers led in their own hearts to a transvaluation of values. . . . The chief business of post-war educa- tion will be to teach young people to know human nature as it is, and to think of it with imagination, warmth, and courage. . . . The life [they] will lead in consequence is a moral life. Gordon Keith Chalmers A New View of the World”