Kenyon College - Reveille Yearbook (Gambier, OH)

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In Memoriam Philip payton of a U,1dV S0C7 inadequate fo express the feelings on the deatf. o Li?- ° d- For of us “ho k “ Payton the choicr manv inters°t'Cn T°re difficult. It is almost useless to remember the are thinking V lv'lt'os which Phil Payton had here while still we are ♦hmfc.ng about h,s death, and yet. this is what we must do. have US ®ath and remember the life if we are to our tbourth C°TU,-,af,0ni .af a ’ Per aPs wo are to keep Phil alive in ltd ’, Th'S “« bo fitting, for I know no other student who wL I t„ i PprtC,a re.d Kenv°n College as much as did Phil Payton, all we l’crnem cr him for his activities and interests, but most of death? ° rcmem er him as a close friend. Is this not the life in word, of John Donne sum up the thought we have at death: One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And death shall be no more.'

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PHILIP PAYTON Louisville, Kentucky Beta Thete Pi WILLIAM MORROW Reeding for honors WILLIAM WAINWRIGHT Kirkwood, Missouri Beta Theta Pi Reeding for honors JOHN M. TITCHENER Reading for honors Not pictured: V. POWELL WOODWARD Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania ROBERT M. EHRBAR Reading for honors LEE RISLEY Reading for honors JOHN DAVIS Reading for honors distribution under the great dome in the sky that shelter philosophers. The shadow of this sort of thing is the finest light in the world for seeing — a gray north light in' which the colors of things are seen to best advantage. Our Department is also happy to be in the shadow of the other Departments at Kenyon. We feel it as a benign influence and will always have things to say in our philosophy classes that remind us of the fundamental kinship which it is the genius of our College to feature, without succumbing to sentimentality or giving up the right to protest as among friends. WILLIAM RAYMOND ABBOTT Columbus, Ohio Archon RONALD E. McLaren Reading for honors Page Seventeen

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DEPARTMENT OF RELIGION CLEMENT W. WELSH The study of religion at Kenyon is based upon the assumption that an education in the arts and sciences is not truly liberal if it does not include the study of religion. Such a study is not intended to bo the technical preparation for a career that is provided by a theological seminary, nor even a specialized introduction for seminary studies, which only pre-theological students would need. Instead, the courses are designed to provide an opportunity for a careful examination of religion in its major forms, Christian and non-Christian, from a point of view that is scholarly, intelligent and objective and yet sympathetic in the sonse that the student is encouraged to see the religious life from within, and to grow in an educated awareness of his own religious development. Such a study may be made in various ways, and the courses of the Department are intended to provide a variety of approaches. A student may wish to know more about the Christian tradition, its scriptures and its history. He may wish to learn something about religions other than his own, especially those of the Orient. He may be concerned to relate Christian ideas with philosophies hostile to religion, or with problems raised by science, or with the activities of the arts. His interost may be that of the committed believer, the skeptical philosopher, or it may be a mixture of both. In any case, his study should contribute to a growing understanding of one of the most important elements of the human situation, and it should help him to relate that study to the development of his mind in the other areas of his education. And as an adjunct to such academic study, the college chapel and the religious activities that center there provide occasions for more direct contact with the fact itself, the living essence of religion, and serve to make relevant his study to the life of the college and of tho world. Acting Chaplain Auociata Profettor of Roligion ROBERT J. PAGE Auittent Professor of Religion Page Nineteen