Kenyon College - Reveille Yearbook (Gambier, OH)

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Fall Dance approaches and the College gradually undergoes a significant semi-annual transformation. Rooms are straightened up, calendar pictures stuffed in desk drawers, shoes polished, corsages ordered, the tux cleaned and pressed. Pledges make themselves useful on occasions such as these. The women arrive - in all shapes and sizes from any numher of geographi- cal locations. Some are tough and worldly, some pseudo, a few strictly high school. Parties, with ALO and Phi Kappa Sigma featuring champagne and the Beta's whiskey sours, and a formal dance give glitter to Friday's festivities. On Saturday afternoon, the combos swing into action. These are followed hy more parties and a second, less formal, dance, D. Phi's 2:00-4:00 is generally the place to he for those in the mood, Sunday brings hang-overs, second hang-overs, and malaise. Soon afterwards, the snows come, great horny eagles grow restless and dream of illusory South Sea heachcomhing. QQX -y.- 24

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1962-1963 witnessed, comparatively-speaking, a windfall of cultural activity in these hinterlands of the Buckeye state: The late Robert Frost and venerable Aldous Huxley inspired us with their presence. Miss Nina Dova, the Smothers Brothers, Alfred Deller, and Russia's outstanding Komitas Quartet provided sweet music for bourgeois ears. Ralph Gerard, a noted psychologist, lectured on the physical basis of memory. Politically: the lectures on Africa left much to be desired. It was particularly offensive to hear western civilization dishonored by an indigenous tribesman from Mozambique at which, unfortunately, student attendance was compulsory. Frank Wilkinson, appearing under the auspices of SPU, profaned Philomathesian Hall when he appealed for grass roots support to abolish HUAC. Former Ambassador Kilanjari's speech on the threat of Communism to Latin America and the Ash- brook-Burnham debate proved exceptionally worthwhile. Kenyon's dramatic productions. Orpheus Descending, Much Ado About Nothing, and Thieves' Carnival, as expected, were superb. 26 w