Kenyon College - Reveille Yearbook (Gambier, OH)

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FOREWORD It isn't long before the Kenyon student reading The Magic Mountain begins to see how remarkably similar are the worlds of experience which lie atop that Swiss mountain and upon his Ohio hill. This isn’t so surprising, despite the cultural and temporal gulf which seems at first to divide them, for Thomas Mann's vast work is a novel of education and. though his hero’s experiences may seem initially far removed from the Kenyon curriculum, parallels quickly suggest themselves. It has been my good fortune to explore both worlds in the company of Kenyon men and I am happy to write a preface to this intriguing effort to join them through a marriage of photograph and text. It is a union. I think, that would have delighted Thomas Mann, himself at home in America during long years of exile. B. H.

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Editor’s noto: Experience In Things Beautiful is lithographed in a specially formulated ink by Win. J. Keller Inc. of Buffalo. New York. The prints are made from 35mm and 4 x 5 negatives and the final printing of photographs has been done by the Bernard Hoffman Laboratories in New York City. The reproduction is Keller's Velvatone FM method of lithography which has been employed to achieve maximum quality and consistency on the printed page. Warren’s Lustre Offset Enamel Dull has been chosen as a suitable paper stock for tin FM process. The book is set in Optima and Melior type (de- signed by Hermann Zapf). The cover is Champion's Kromecote CIS and the bindery is Riverside Bookbinders of Rochester. New York. The prefatory quotation is taken from an Address delivered at University College, the University of Chicago, June 6, 1959 by Dr. Leo Strauss. Robert Maynard Hutchins Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, and is reprinted by permission of the author. The Magic Mountain quotations conform with the Alfred A. Knopf edition of 1960. translated by H. T. I.owe-Porter. These quotations are protected by copyright and are reprinted here by special permission of the publisher. Alfred A. Knopf. Inc. The editor would like to extend his appreciation to the following indi- viduals for their assistance in making possible the publication of this book: Thomas J. Edwards, Bruce Haywood, Robert H. Horwitz, John W. Landry. I). David Long, F. Edward Lund. B. Peter Seymour. William H. Thomas. DANIEL S. HOROWITZ. Editor YALE M. GREENFIELD, Associate Editor Photography: George Berndt, William Dye, Yale Greenfield, Daniel Horowitz. Kurt Lorenz. Richard Nolan. Philip Rinaldo, Markham Stevenson. Editorial Consultants: William Brown, Edward Hallowell. Michael Kirch- berger, Artur Kosiakowski. Richard Nolan. Philip Rinaldo, John Schladen, John Tucker. c Copyright. 1967, by Kenyon College

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Liberal education, which consists in the constant intercourse with the greatest minds, is a training in the highest form of modesty, not to say of humility. It is at the same time a training in boldness: it demands from us the complete break with the noise, the rush, the thoughtlessness, the cheapness of the Vanity Fair of the intellectuals as well as of their enemies. It demands from us the boldness implied in the resolve to regard the accepted views as mere opinions, or to regard the average opinions as the ex- treme opinions which are at least as likely to be wrong as the most strange or the least popular opinions. Liberal education is lib- eration from vulgarity. The Greeks had a beautiful word for vulgarity”; they called it apeirokalia, lack of experience in things beautiful. Liberal education supplies us with experience in things beautiful. LEO STRAUSS