Kenyon College - Reveille Yearbook (Gambier, OH)

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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

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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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 DEPARTMENT OF CHARLES T. BUNDY II ■ gone, but the department survived. Off iqht ro Italy, Bob Fink left behind an empty and the tradition of high standards i ' '9r idc-s). His fill-in for the year, a Kenyon ilumnus nurtured in the Fink tradition, and consequently unshaken by the concept that the ablative '■ absolute, kept the Classics Cupola in North Asconsion alive with laughter, and refused to teach except at the most unlikely hours of the afternoon. The department felt it contributed its share to the furthering of education. oven without benefit of tho elec- P«g Iwenty £rvv‘ -m r