Kenyon College - Reveille Yearbook (Gambier, OH)

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I JOHN CROWE RANSOM C«rnegi« Profettor of Poofry ALBERT N. HALVERSTADT. JR. Cincinnoti, Ohio Delta Tau Delta JOHN MaeBRIDE WILKIN Gates Mills. Ohio Delta Kappa Epsilon Poised equilibrist. A champion fierce Armod by the Stagirite, insistent, roved, As Speculation scanning sat, remote, Rapt by the emblem peacock's spectrum pride. And otnors: smiling the Norwich Doctor's Paradoxos; pulling the sock of Lear, Or lovely Venice fatally conspired, Upon the weary academic foot; CHARLES MONROE COFFIN EDITOR'S NOTE: This poam about an evening at tha Huntington Library, whare Dr. Coffin died at his work, incraasas further our already high esteem for Dr. Coffin's attainments. We thank Mrs. Coffin, who found tha poam imona his papers, and the KENYON REVIEW for permission to reprint it hare. Page Eleven DONALD R. COCHRAN. JR. Bala-Cynwyd. Pennsylvania Delta Kappa Epsilon MELVIN BARON Brooklyn, New York Middle Kenyon Association DENHAM SUTCLIFFE Professor of English Nobly frustrate, stalking Truth, in the dim Bibliotheque, evading, whore some whose Beauty unblemished in the tedious Pursuit, camo dancing nymph-like to this place. Tho great stage everywhere — from Paradise And the vast abyss, to lovely Celia's Bower and sage-brush balladry: all hero, Now, enisling to a little world, made In the Imago, like the First Day’s work Wolding the seeds and the fierce embattled Substances. And now, as the Sun plummets And the candled yew assorts night's return, Anticipating dissolution, there Is felt the inward prick, creasing the smile To a downward irony: that perhaps — Indeed, perhaps not — in these dark-long Light yoars of being, a continent like This might not rise up again, as this one Rises now while tho day falls, unless Lovo Elicit from the remote dispersed Atoms such unison as here, and in This moment sings both in the undersong And the song, as one new-creating voice.

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DEPARTMENT PHILIP W TIMBERLAKE Secretary of the Faculty W- H.,nn« Professor of English tvr.NING AT THE ATHENAEUM (Ad Amicos Huntingtonienses) At t!v c-nd of the olive walk, unheard, C healing on the world’s edge - n ludes a continent. The Sun's fall Stops »d iy .!• d fh cool Planet's flame candling • ',; ip of the bit ok yew asserts the night. And we sit hero in Ihe olive peace, near Th - world's end and at the day's, an island, Composing all meridian furies, By the song ond undersong of the head And hoart, blending one voice, spoken into Being. Elemented of all tempers Begotton in southern latitudes, all Humours bred where th'Atlantic's mists and rain Drench earth with waters of tho firmament; Of souls annealed in desert furnaces, And thoso timed to the march of the City's Metronome; and of green hearts rooting in The temperate fields between: conglobing Here, an island, by providential Accident. In what dark ways? Where, how long Preparing? There, whilo one, alone, surveyed The wide geometries of Grosz, or watched El Groco's earth-planes bending spherical To Heav'n, another one heard Berlioz, Or tinkled Purcell on the harpsichord; The Fugitive from dream snatched by the Muse, OF ENGLISH RICHARD E. DETIEF W«itlake, Ohio Alpha Delta Phi Reading for honors PHILIP W. FOX. JR. Wheaton, Illinois Alpha Delta Phi DANIEL D. BUMSTEAD Bucyrus, Ohio Beta Thota Pi RICHARD O. PHILLIPS Yonkers. New York Delta Phi Page Tei

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ROBERT B. KOHN Elkin Park, Pennsylvania P i Upsilon DONALD L. MULL Gary, Indiana Pii Upsilon PETER H. TAYLOR Associate Profossor of English TODD BENDER Reading for honors LEIF E. ANCKER Reading for honors FRANK H. ROUDA Instructor of English DEAN BURGESS EDGAR C. BOGARDUS Instructor of English DOUGLASS W. LAWDER. JR Fairfield, Conn. Psi Upsilon J. E. PARSONS