Kenyon College - Reveille Yearbook (Gambier, OH)

Page 23 text:

CLASSICAL LANGUAGES JOSEPH 0. YOURNO JOHN E. BOWERS tronic mechanica which ruined the symmetry of second-floor Ascension. Twenty-five students read a hundred thousand words of Greok and Latin. They worried over linguistics and literature, over morphology and mythology; they marched with Cyrus, plotted with Catiline, won the fleece with Jason. Only a fow were fortunate enough to translate, but many learned to understand what the Greeks and Romans meant in what they wrote, and as they wrote it. Most of them felt it had been worth it all; their instructor certainly did. Pag Tw nty-one

Page 22 text:

 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

Page 24 text:

DEPARTMENT OF MODERN LANGUAGES IDWaRP HARVEY ■ foitor of French Language JAMES R. BROWNE Profeisor of Spaniih Language and Literature EDWARD HARVEY ♦hr. srr ,|| j . m»Cnf 0c rn Languages, while it appears to be a large department, is in reality nd 5Z k ?:- P I int0p°ne- RV0 inStrUCt°rJ «’ • •« • course! offered in French, German. Haywood Entire v T G T deVOted h” 9 «■ . entirely to Spanish. Professor viderhU time 'equallv C f° • hi,e Weinberg French and one of Spanish [ ormAn an Spanish, and Professor Harvey teaches three courses of signed to he!p the rtudVnh wtisfTrheTP°nS,b,l,t'e ’ pr°V'd° in$frucflon for the course de a whole. It must offer re r y anguage requirement, which is a requirement of the Faculty as lifv taking courses In ZllZ TtThoped th.7 u ' VT the grades and in , . „ P d hatf as more anc more language instruction is given in wi bo ble ,o cut dow ,h' It was only because the Am °V° ° m°r° 'me ° courses ,n advanced language or in literature. i-cdzt?;7z:Tr-°urr cduca,:on ,ai,°dd° «• • « — in high school is forced oroign anguages. The more work which should have been done d open th. colleges, the thinner the quality of the liberal art, education is. This WO P«go Twenty-1