Kenyon College - Reveille Yearbook (Gambier, OH)

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KENYON REVIEW The Konyon Review, it has been said, put Kenyon on the map. Old Schoolers are apt to look with disapproval on statements like this, but everyone will surely agree that the magazine has brought the Kenyon name to intellectual circles where it had been un- known before the magazine's advent. Edited by a small staff (Pappy Ransom and Phil Rice), with an even smaller office 3taff (Mary Rahming'. the Review emanates from a tiny basement Ascension office, carrying the power of lucid and critical thought to a company of grateful scholars, many on the Hill itself. John Crowe Ransom Vanderbilt, Oxford CARNEGIE PROFESSOR OF POETRY Editor, KENYON REVIEW CLASSICS ART Robert O. Fink Indiana, Cornell. Yale PROFESSOR OF CLASSICS Norris W. Rahming National Academy of Design, et al DIRECTOR OF ART 27

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 ENGLISH Potential students of Kenyon Col- lege hear, long before they enter, that practically the only subject taught at the College of ary aca- demic value is English. As under- graduates, on the other hand, they find much of the non-English curri- culum fairly stimulating and even adequately taught, although thoir reverence for the department re- mains always strong . . . Chairman Denny Sutcliffe chose this year to lecture, in British accents, to Har- vard youth, and Charlie Coffin took up again the reins of the depart- ment he headed in pre-Sutfliffe days. Phi! Timbcrlake ana Pappy Ransom ccntinuod in their settled traditions, and newcomer Howie Babb was greeted as a Sutcliffe fac- simile in all respects save stature. Charles M. Coffin Ohio Stale. Columbia CHAIRMAN DEMPSEY PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH Denham Sutcliffe Bates, Oxford PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH (on leave oi absence) Philip W. Timberlake Kenyon, Princeton MclLVAlNE PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH Howard S. Babb Kenyon, Harvard INSTRUCTOR OF ENGLISH 26

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 PHILOSOPHY Virgil C. Aldrich Ohio Wesleyan. Sorbonne, California PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY Wilfred D. Desen College of Antwerp, University of Lille VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY Philip B. Rice Indiana, Oxford GOFF PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY (on leave of absence second semester] MODERN LANGUAGES James R. Browne Naval Academy. Cincinnati. Chicac CHAIRMAN PROFESSOR OF SPANISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE Fawncey Ashford still finds every freshman more lacking in intelli- gence and social graces than any other he has ever taught, but finds time. toe. to impart not a little know- ledge. along with the criticism, of the French and Spanish languages ... Ed Harvey, speaking whimsically of Existentialism, maintained his reputation as the saviour of the simple-minded . . . Cap Eberle struggled through the elements of German grammar without the dub- ious assistance of Winkie, but veterans of the Mather basement classes mi33ed the canine influence . . . Chairman Jim 3rowne main- tained tho pace of the department and barked out Spanish like so many naval commands ... En- rollment in the department was large, and majors, not overworked, wore quito happily indolent. 23