Kenyon College - Reveille Yearbook (Gambier, OH)

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Out of the long past of revered memories, broken by yesterday's disruption and strain, the College reawakens. Its members now, perhaps with more accuracy, realize their responsibility to see Parts in the light of the Whole. To the spirit of change, in which this book participates, Reveille 1947 is given.

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3L C ((eye l eawal rSeuwahenA Out of a Long Past . . . J ENYON COLLEGE was founded in a fresh, new territory of the infant nation, a nation so young that many of her founders still lived. Kenyon was built to serve, through education and religion, the people who came westward to settle the green fields of Ohio in the days following the War of 1812. Kenyon's beginning was as rugged as the oaks and maples along her bright river and as solid and secure as the native rocks in the four-foot walls of her first great building. The development was slow but fervor for a great institution was with those men in England and America who made her beginning possible. Bishop Chase exhibited to an incredible degree the work and determination that assured Kenyon's initial success. Many things came and passed: the college farms, the Grammar School, the Kenyon Military Academy, Harcourt Place School. Others came to remain: an excellent academic tradition, the Middle Path, the Divinity School, the singing, the ivy, and the spirit. Between 1845 and the present, Kenyon’s development has been period- ically interrupted by wars. During the Mexican War, the students formed the Kenyon Guards and trained to aid their country. In the Civil War, Kenyon men were separated by their political choice. The Kenyon Light Guards drilled daily. The College gave nine generals and one hundred and thirty-six officers. The bloody war took the lives of seventeen of them. The great names of Stanton and Hayes fired her pride. Troubled years and pleasant years followed; presidents came and passed; the century gave way to a new one. Soon came the first World War and four hundred and thirty-five men from Kenyon were drawn in; eight gave their lives. Again the students drilled in the park. The college welcomed the training at Kenyon of an Army SATC unit and Kenyon's background helped many men work better and suffer less in the mud of France. Finally the peace came and the development of Kenyon continued for a score of years. New buildings rose: Leonard and Peirce Halls, the Swimming Pool, and Power Plant. Aeronautics, horsemanship, and play production were intro- duced into the college. The Kenyon Renew was born. The college's fame spread.