Kenyon College - Reveille Yearbook (Gambier, OH)

Text from Pages 1 - 154 of the 1973 volume:

REVEILLE 73 KENYON COLLEGE GAMBIER, OHIO “It was over eighty six years ago that Bishop Chase selected this spot in Knox county for college purposes. He was location seeking and on the afternoon of July 22. 1825. “Well, this will do. At that instant was fixed the destiny of Kenyon College, which during all of these four score and more years has blessed the whole world with the students who have been trained here. — Past and Present of Knox County Ohio Albert Williams 1912 REVEILLE '73 was published by Western Yearbook, Cambridge Maryland. Prints are from 35mm, 2'4 x2W’, and Banner negatives. All halftones are varnished and printed on Warren's Double-Coated 100« Cameo Gloss pa|K r with a 150 line elliptical dot screen. Copy throughout is set with Century School- book tv| e. The cover Ls Frankote 12 pt. drawn around a Smythe sewn binding. Lord Kenyon Philander Chase, first Episcopal Bishop of Ohio, founded Kenyon in 1824 as a theological seminary to train clergy for the Church in what was then the West.” In the face of opposition to his project from Eastern bishops, he went to England to raise funds and came back with around thirty thousand dollars. Two of the most liberal donors were Lord Kenyon and I ord Gambier; others were Lord Bexley, Hannah Moore, and Lady Rosse, whose contribution was earmarked for the construction of the College chapel, now Rosse Hall. Only the title of Lord Kenyon has continued to the present day, and its holders have been notably long-lived; the present Lord Kenyon is only the great-grandson of the one for whom the College was named. The seminary, envisioned by Chase as a retreat of virtue in seclusion from the Vices’ of the World, turned into a men’s liberal arts college when it became apparent that most prospective students were too poorly prepared to begin theological studies immediately. The Bexley Hall seminary was established as a separate department in 1839. Chase himself left Gambier in 1831 when his rather dicta- torial nature brought him into conflict with the trustees and faculty of the College. Before his death in 1852 he founded another college in Illinois. Jubilee, which has been defunct since about 1900. REVEILLE first dealt seriously with the history of Kenyon College in A Dusty Path, which appeared in the 1964 REVEILLE, The changes which have taken place since then have been at least as drastic as any in the previous 140 years. This section of REVEILLE 73 concerns itself, in part, with filling this gap. We offer it in the hope that your apprecia- tion ot what Kenyon is now will be enriched by some understanding of what it has been during the past 149 years. Jim Carson 74 Gail Meyer 75 Lord Gambier Philander Chase 'Fhe drawing above shows the four temporary buildings, which Chase built to house the Col- lege when it moved to Gam bier in 1828 from its first location, Worthington, now a suburb of Columbus. These buildings stood on what is now the lawn north of the Church of the Holy Spirit. They were all removed from this spot at an early date; but. like so many buildings in Gambier's history, they circulated from one place to another, serving various pur|w ses. At least one of them may have survived until as recently as 1967. 1828 1829 1826 rrnroi collxox. 0� At top right appears the original design for Old Kenyon, which called for longer wings, giving the building an II shape. The stubby spire of this design was replaced by a taller one in the actual building at the suggestion of the noted early American architect Charles Hulfinch; this fact gave rise to a persistent legend that Hulfinch designed the entire building. At middle right is a sketch made by Chase himself which shows the building as it ap- peared when it was occupied in 1829 — only the middle section was finished. The painting at lower right shows the finished building; the Hast Wing was completed in 1834, the West Wing in 1836. The long wings of the original design were shortened to their present size because of a shortage of stone — and money. 4 c. 1838 At 4:00 A.M. the morning of February 27, 1949. all was as usual in Old Kenyon. Ten minutes later the entire second and third floor hallways of Middle Kenyon were engulfed in flames. The fire started when sparks from a fireplace in the basement fell back down an unused flue in one of the four huge chimneys and escaped, through a defect in the mor- tar. into the space between the first floor ceiling and second floor. It probably smoldered there for several hours, and built up such tremendous pressure that it burst out with explosive force, completely de- stroying the building and taking the lives of nine students, of whom six never got out of their rooms. At first there was some hope of saving the wings, which were separated from the middle section by solid masonry walls, the only connecting doors being in the basement; but the fire spread rapidly through the roof into the wings. The bodies of the six missing men were not all recovered until March 8. There was never any serious question that Old Kenyon would lx rebuilt, and the project was com- pleted in May of 1950; but for the historical purist the present building is a replica rather than a recon- struction of the original one. It is a modern rein- forced concrete and steel structure with an outer shell about eight inches thick, composed of stones from the walls of the original Old Kenyon, num- bered and replaced in the same positions as before. The original walls, however, were four-and-one-half feet thick at the basement level, tapering to about two feet at the top. The reduced thickness of the exterior walls, while it undoubtedly meant a gain of floor space, also entailed sacrificing the deep window seats which had endeared the old building to gener- ations of students. February 27. 1949 d February 27. 1949 February 20, 1950 5 The earliest known view of Gambier appears at top right. Note at the center the well, the site of which is now marked by a brass tabiet in the middle oFW'iggin Street; and, above all, the absence of Middle Path. Bishop Chase had planned for the main campus to be laid out in a se- ries of squares bounded by buildings; Old Kenyon would have formed the south side of the southernmost square, Kosse Chapel probably the west side of the next one up. This phin was scrapped under Kenyon's third president, David Bates Douglass, who laid out Middle Path from Old Kenyon to Wiggin Street in 1841; the path was ex- tended to Bexley Hall around I860. The photograph at middle right was taken from the roof of Bexley just after the work was completed. In the days when access to Mount Vernon was not so easy as now. Gambier supported a flourishing business district. The two establishments represented at right on the facing page, Jacobs’ Shoe Store and Casteel’s Barber Shop, were located on the site of Farr Hall. The subject of the top photograph is identified as Harold Parker, who later worked for the College as a laboratory assistant. French’s Drug Store was the first occupant of the build- ing immediately south of the post office, now the Drama Annex, and probably the most versatile building in Gam- bier's history. Built originally around 1855, it burned and was rebuilt in 1888. It served as the College Commons from lfMl to 1929, with the kitchen downstairs and the dining room up; then, when Peirce Hall was completed, it be- came the post office. When the present post office was occupied in 1940 it was devoted to library storage, and shortly thereafter was remodeled to house the College bookstore. In 1966 the bookshop occupied its new quar- ters in Farr Hall, and the old French building became the headquarters of the Art Department, which moved to Bexley Hall in 19 2. When the Fine Arts Center is com- pleted in 19?? . . . Corner of Gaskin and Brooklyn, 1896 I. c. 1840 c. 1860 6 Canoeing on the KoKosing, c. 1885 I GO! GO! GO! GO! HARRIS H. KHKNCHN mvo «Tout or OAMairn! wavy nu ICE CREAM! 1C OOLO SODA WATER I iKMON A ! K. CIGARS, smoking CHEWING TWfiCCP! «mil TIIIV.� • MiKCTIUXA� l.« t� l III mu � IU. MIT 1911 c. 1874 “The village is incorporated and its population of about 1150 is governed by a Mayor and a Council. Its edu- cational facilities include the grades 1-6 and a day school. A modern san- itary disposal system is maintained and water is supplied by the College. Gambier is located on the Pennsyl- vania Railroad and on Ohio State routes 229 and 308.” — from the Mt. Vernon Telephone Directory c. 1895 7 1965 1965 1964 The Kokosing Gift Shop operated between 1946 and 1946 in the back room of the former Hayes Grocery building, now occupied by Student Council and the Gambier Ex- perimental College. The three other photographs show buildings demolished to make way for Farr Hall. Arnold’s Kokosing Market stood where Hayes’ Grocery is now, Woolison’s Sohio station on the site of the Pizza Villa, in the former Jacobs Shoe building. The design of Farr Hall was the subject of prolonged haggling between and among the trustees, faculty, and students of Kenyon, and the townspeople of Gambier. The drawing above, which appeared in the Collegian of December 11, 1964, was the architect's third attempt to produce a design acceptable to all parties. It wasn’t. corner of Gaskin and Brooklyn, 1965 I here are no shops in the village except for two provision stores, no drugstore, no movie theater, and only one small neon sign that fee- bly says Laundry to the empty night. Gam- bier is a lonely little town after ten o’clock. 8 c. 1948 — Robert Hillyer “Gambier — Victorian Remnant in Ohio”. 1953 c. 1885 c. 1870 Rosse Chapel was begun by Chase in 1829; he envi- sioned it as a Gothic structure with a spire at the front and a deep chancel which would have ex- tended forty feet into the present cemetery. He only got as far as finishing the basement before he left; and under his successor. Bishop Charles Mcllvaine. the plans were redrawn in accordance with the then-current Greek revival, resulting in a structure which remains a bit of an architectural oddity among its Gothic neighbors. For lack of money the building wasn’t finished until 1845, and it has been something of a problem child ever since. Shortly after it was completed a heavy snow crushed the roof, and for several years tree trunks, bark and all. were used to prop up the ceiling. In 1871, the newly built Church of the Holy Spirit became the College cha|x l. and Rosse Chapel was nanus! Rosse Hall. It was equipped as a gymnasium in 188-1. and in 18% (having naturally been consecrated for divine wor- ship when first built) it was specially deconsecrated so it could lx used for dances. In May of 1897 some students who had lx en polish- ing the floor for a dance left a pile of oil-soaked rags in a corner; the resulting fire left only portions of two walls and the twin pillars in front, which were incorporated into the reconstructed building, com- pleted in 1900. Rosse continued to serve as a gym- nasium until 1948, when half of an old Marine drill hall was moved to Gambier and became the Werth- eimer Field House. The view at middle left shows the chancel of Rosse during its last years as Chapel. The Bishop Chase memorial plaque which appears in this picture was installed in 1801 and moved to the Church of the Holy Spirit when Rosse was deconsecrated, thus escaping the fire by only a year. At lower left, the interior of Rosse as gymnasium, in use by the student body of the Harcourt Place School for Girls. 1922 9 4 May 9. 1897 Nu Pi Kappa. 1832 Philomathesian, 1827 Artist’s conception of Ascension Hall. 1859 Ascension Hall was built in 1859 and named for its principal donors, the members of the Church of the Ascension in New York City. The original plan pro- vided science labs and classrooms on the first floor of the center section, halls for the Philomathesian and Nu Pi Kappa literary societies on the second and third floors respectively, an astronomical obser- vatory in the tower, and student rooms in the wings. In 1927, after the science facilities were moved to the newly completed Samuel Mather Hall, the in- terior of Ascension was torn out and rebuilt in con- crete and steel. The original woodwork in the Phi- lomathesian and Nu Pi Kappa halls was removeri, numbered, and reinstalled; the woodwork in the rest of the renovated building was cut from timbers removed from the original interior. The Nu Pi Kappa hall was later partitioned off into faculty offices, but is still officially known by its original name, to the confusion of many incoming freshmen. The two literary societies were a central feature of the life of the College from its founding until fairly recently. The Philomathesian was founded in 1827, before the College mover! to Gambier. Nu Pi Kappa came into being in 1832 when a dispute between Philo members from free and slave-holding states led to a decision to divide the group. The question of which faction got to keep the original name was decided by the toss of a coin. North won. Physics lab in Middle Ascenion, 1916 The chapel occupies a prominent place in the daily life of a Kenyon student. Every day he passes by it time after time, and enters it at least once. He becomes familiar with the angles of its most unobtrusive windows. He knows the decorative inscriptions on its walls inside by- heart, he can even describe accurately the design of the pulpit and altar, and he even has a speaking acquaint- ance with the individual hymnals and prayerbooks.” - from the 1912 REVEILLE c. 1890 Chapel interior with photographer’s hat. c. 1905 The College chapel, the Church of the Holy Spirit, was begun in 1869 and consecrated in 1871. Like Ascension Hall, it was given to the College bv the members of New York’s Church of the Ascension. It was built as a tribute to their former rector, Gregory 'I'. Bedell, then assistant Bishop of Ohio, who in 1863 built Kokosing, the house on Kokosing Drive now occupied by Professor Crump. Ixmg-time residents of Gambier, Bishop and Mrs. Bedell carefully supervised the details of the new church, right down to the ivy which was ini| ortcd from England's Mel- rose Abbey. The illuminated texts on the walls were commissioned in 1874 and restored in 1940. For many years seating in the chapel followed a pre- scribed pattern, traces of which still survive in the seating habits of the congregation of Harcourt Parish. Around 19(H). when the other schools which once o|x rated in Gambier were in their heyday, the arrangement was as follows: Kenyon students occupied the nave pews facing each other across the center aisle. Each student was as- signed an individual seat to aid the proctors in enforcing the attendance requirement. The cadets of the Kenyon Military Academy sat on benches in the center aisle, which appear in the photograph above. The West tran- sept was occupied by Kenyon professors and their fami- lies, the front pews of the East transept by the faculty and students of Bexley Hall. The remaining East tran- sept pews were assignee! to Gambier townspeople, and the gallery was occupied by the girls of the Harcourt Place School. While the regulations were gradually relaxed over the year , chapel attendance in some form was required of Kenyon students until I960. In the days when daily at- tendance was the rule, a rather elaborate sort of point system was used. Absence, beyond a prescribed number of times |x?r semester was of course the most severe infrac- tion: lesser penalties were also provided for such minor offenses as coming in late or falling asleep during the sermon. c. 1935 ll 1885 1911 Kenyon’s first separate library building, Hubbard Hall, at upper left, was built in 1885, on the present site of Ransom Hall. In 1902 the completely fireproof Stephens Stack Room, now Stephens Hall, was added, and proved a godsend when Hubbard burned to the ground on New Year's Day of 1910. The loss included reference books, paintings, and valuable documents including some of Philander Chase's letters; but the bulk of the collection had fortunately been removed to Stephens, and survived unscathed. Hubbard was replaced by the Alumni Library, now Ransom Hall, shown above under construction. The handsome Norton Room, now the scene of nail-biting and thumb-twiddling by nervous pros- pective freshmen, was the main reading room of this library, opened in 1912. It served for fifty years, but had clearly become inadequate after thirty-five of them. In the late forties part of the collection was moved to a temporary, and highly flammable, frame building located immediately south of Rosse Hall, and plans for a new library were drawn, an artist’s conception of which ap| ears at left. This library would have been built on the site of the present one and might have been completed around 1953; but when Old Kenyon burned, its reconstruction of course, became the top priority, and the library proj- ect was postponed. Finally, on October 17.” 1962, students pitched in with the tremendous job of moving thousands of books; and the Gordon Keith Chalmers Memorial Library, named for Kenyon’s president from 1937 to 1956, became a reality. The Alumni Library was remodeled to house college offices, and renamed in 1964 to honor one of Ken- yon's most distinguished faculty members, poet John Crowe Ransom. 12 1946 October 17. 1962 Moving Cromwell House to make room for the new library from the 1966 REVEILLE 13 At right, an architect’s conception of Bexley Hall; below, the faculty and student body of the Seminary; and at lower right, faculty and students of the Kenyon Art Department. Bexley was begun in 18.39 to house the theo- logical seminary and was substantially com- pleted in 1843. though, as with Old Kenyon, parts of the interior remained in a rather rough condition for some years to come. Ex- cept for a lapse during the 1870’s, when a shortage of students forced closing, and a two-year move to Virginia during the Second World War, the seminary operated here con- tinuously until 1968. when it moved to Roches- ter. New York. The building was then Occupied by_ the accounting and alumni offices until 1972, when it was completely remodeled to house the Art Department. Colburn Hall, now known as Colburn Gallery, was added in 1904 to house the seminary library. Shortly after the completion of Bexley some- one apparently became convinced that it was out of place in a campus whose other principal buildings (all two of them at that time) were of stone; so for many years, in an effort to imi- tate stone, Bexley wore a coat of either stucco or whitewash which was not finally dispensed with until the 1960’s. 1839 1882 1973 14 February 24, 1906 1888 For many years Kenyon shared Gambier with one or more other important educational insti- tutions. From the earliest days a grammar school for boys was associated with Kenyon. In 1834 it moved into a building called Milnor Hall which stood east of where Dorm III is now, about on the site of the house now occu- pied by Vice-President McKean and formerly occupied by Dean Dons Crozier. This school became the Kenyon Military Academy in 1887, shortly after Delano Hall', the right-handed building in the photograph above, was added. In 1889 Milnor Hall burned and was replaced by New Milnor Hall, the left-hand building. The institution came to its end in a fire in February of 1906 which completely destroyed both buildings and killed three cadets. The Harcourt Place Seminary for Girls and Young Ladies opened in 1887 and considerably brightened the Gambier social scene for the next fifty years. Its three buildings stood in what is now the area between Lewis and Nor- ton Halls. The school fell victim to the depres- sion in 1936. c. 1900 15 d c. 1900 William Foster Peirce, c. 1896 The Kenyon College Trustees held a meeting at Co- lumbus March 26. for the purpose of electing a new president for this institution. After a complete survey of the field they unanimously elected Professor Wm. F. Peirce, at present occupying the chair of Philosophy and History . . . Professor Peirce was to arrive at 2:40 the next morning. The whole student body stayed up to greet him. A surrey was provided with a long ro|K attached in front along which 60 to 70 students ar- ranged themselves. When at last the train came in. it was greeted with the prolonged blasts of tin horns and the sharp reports of cannon crackers. Hardly had the astonished Professor stepped from the train when he was hurried into the carriage awaiting him. At that moment a rocket streamed up from the observatory on the tower of Ascension Hall, shooting far over the val- ley, leaving a vanishing arch of fire and bursting high in the air. The procession starter! at a run. the road being illuminated by volleys of Roman candles on all sides. In a remarkably short time the mile of roadway to the College was covered and by the light of a bonfire seventy-two feet in circumference. President Peirce descended u|w n the steps of Old Kenyon . . .” — from the April 1896 Collegian William Foster Peirce, affectionately known to stu- dents as “Fat” because of his slim build, served as President of the College for forty-one years. An avid flier well into his seventies, he died in 1967 at the age of 99. Peirce Hall was begun in 1928 and opened in the fall of 1929. The terrace was located where the present TV 16 lounge is and was moved east when Dempsey Hall was added in 1963. c. 1950 : The presidency of Gordon Keith Chalmers, who succeeded President Peirce in 1937, is remembered as something of an academic golden age. In the truest sense a gentleman and a scholar, his sudden death in May of 1956 was deeply mourned by everyone connected with the College. It was in 1937 that poet John Crowe Hansom, still resident in Gambier, came from Vander- bilt University to accept the position of Carne- gie Professor of Poetry; and largely as a result of his work here the College, and in particular the Department of English, rose to national prominence. Among the graduates of this pe- riod were |x et Hobert Lowell and novelist, short-story writer, and playwright Peter Tay- lor. who has since had several plays performed in the Hill Theater, most recently Three Ghost Plays on commencement weekend of 1972. Hobert Lowell ’40 Gordon Keith Chalmers John Crowe Hansom The stall of the Kenyon Review, 1939. Norman .Johnson. John Crowe Hansom. Philip Blair Rice. KENYON R E V I EW ARTS LETTERS ■' The Sorrow� of Thom� � Wolfe by V V 1 JOHN P E A L E BISHOP A Piri� Letter by FORD MADOX FORD The Two Audent by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Quarterly at Gambier, O. Price 50 Cent WINTER urn Kenyons name was placed indelibly upon the literary map by two important projects carried out under the aegis of John Crowe Ransom: the Kenyon Review and the Graduate Summer School of English. The Review, an outgrowth of Ransom's interest in literary criticism, was founded in 1939. Its headquarters was the house on Chase Avenue which now houses the Public Relations office, and it was among the country’s outstanding critical publications un- til financial difficulties forced it to suspend publication in 1970. The School of English, during the summers of 19-18. 1949, and 1950, brought to the Kenyon campus a mind-boggling assemblage of literary notables, for a series of intensive courses and public seminars. In addition to the group ap- pearing on this page, the roll included such names as Cleantn Brooks, F. O. Matthiessen, Allen Tate, and Robert Penn Warren. In 1951 the school became the School of Letters of the University of Indiana. KHIows of the School of English. 1950. Front row: Philip Blair Kice. WtUtam Empson. John Crowe Ransom. L. C. Knight. Charles Monroe Coffin (also of the Kenvon English Department); back row. Arthur Mi .ener, Robert Lowell '40. Kenneth Burke. Delmore Schwartz. T L l «. t Til E Two major publications, Reveille and the Col- legian, appeared fur the first time during the 1855-56 academic year. The Collegian began as a literary magazine, though it included some College and Gambier news from the be- ginning. However, it suspended publication in 1860 and remained in limbo for twenty-seven years. In the meantime the Reveille, l egun as a newspaper, had become the College yearbook in 1867. Shortly after it appeared it Became a target for satire in the Revile-Ye. which ran for one issue in 1859. During the lapse of the Collegian the lack of a newspaper was for a time remediet! by the Kenyon Advance, published from 1877 to 1884. In 1887 the Collegian reappeared in its old role of combined literary magazine and newspaper; but the literary emphasis faded during the first decade of this century, and a large-page news- paper format was adopted in 1911. The need for a literary magazine was fillet! by Hika, which was first printed in 1985, taking its name from a traditional yell used at athletic events. btrotin m LI7XBA7UBE. MX0A1T. IW GlVtllX W i. K. M . KIMIIINIIS, n MlallRB January, 1856 March. 1935 Decern Ikt 1. 1859 19 “Kenyon students gave few plays, if any. before the Civ. War. though there is mention of some 'colloquies.'The lapse of the Collegian in 1860. followed by a long dunk of information on such subjects, makes it difficult : trace the early history of dramatics in the college. A n t ice has been preserved of a play. The Loan of a Low to Ik given on the eighth of February. 1876. Then em� a long blank, until, in November, 1885, a small poster� � printed, announcing ‘Tom Cobb, or Fortune's Toy! i Comedy in Three Acts.’ This play was given by student assisted by several young ladies of the village. In 1886, u commencement time, there was a play, entitled The Adventure Club.’ The Standard of the Cross spoke of h discreetly as a ‘dialogue.’ In 1888 the ‘Kenyon Dramatic Company’ was formed, and presented plays at Philo Hall generally assisted by Gambier young ladies, but some- times giving the female parts to men. Old-fashioned farces and light comedies made up most of the pro- grammes. It was not until near the dose of this period [1896] that dramatics began really to flourish at Ken- yon.” — from Kenyon College: Its First Century (1924 by George F. Smythr Mead of the Family. Rosae Hall. I8M AT NT N KAPIM IIAIA WcM tail Jane 5, '89, In Their New Plays, thei AND E Hearing and Believing, IV� tbr IVwit «I U Kniyrni R� mu MUSIC By THE KENYON ORCHESTRA, On- IMnrttaiof Mr. Admission. 60 Onto. . Children. 2 Cents. 20 I M ftifaim ■ p. H Kenyon Minstrels. 1894 1944? ivnmy, vmiv mi, v THE SOPHOMORE CLASS -88- Will Cremate AnyJ+tics in the COLLCCE PARK TO-1TIQHT, !mm«dUtcly alter «bc Gl« Club Concert. ALL ARE INVITED. BURIAL OF TRIGONOMETRY BY THE CLASS OF 1915 KENYON MAY 3rd. 1913 Among the favorite activities on the lighter side of student life were the mock political conventions which were traditionally held in Presidential election years. Sometimes the Republican and sometimes the Democratic- convention was simulated, and the participants watched with interest to see if the actual con- vention of the party in question would choose the same candidate as the Kenyon mock-up. These conventions embraced the whole of the community, not just the Kenyon student body. During the time of the Harcourt School for Girls, its students were somehow always assigned to represent the same three states: Virginia. West Virginia, and the Virgin Islands. Another lamentably bygone tradition, perhaps a victim of economic pressure, was the burning or burying by the sophomore class of the books from the course they had liked the least during the preceding year. As the |x sters on thus page suggest, thus often developed into an elaborate ceremony, including a mock funeral procession, extended windy eulogies for the deceased sub- ject. and so forth. 1952? 21 Kenyon Forever. AilrlU'rt mill Olli rlx-iii lay lolling in llw lu J. ThU i. I lie m I r� ir � f 11 wlwi |4 y with u . Never niliiJ! O. S. I’.! Iw.a'l ymi A � «• go through the line! Ilika. Ilika. Kenyon. Ilika! Ilika. Ilika. Kenyon. Ilika! Ilika. Ilika. Kenyon. Ilika! Aa � f go through yonr line! If yon think that your team i jjia.l enough Krm'h in your |meket ami |� ill out your atlllT, For ne are the |wo, l«- «I� iwier take a bluff— We mean ju t mbat we Ml. Chorny etc. J. S. M.. VO. Kenyon’s a Daisy! Kenyon! Kenyon! May your game toaliyl We are here hoy� . We will cv fair |4ay. It won't lie a atyli.h mauling, llut a regular oti-rhnnling. O. K. I', look an eel I '|mn the Iwo-k «cut; And that , where ahe'H hair to tay. Kenyon! Kenyon! May with all your heart! Ia t O. S. I', boy May a thinking part. They can't go through nur rti h line, lint we go roil ml their tttula Hiw. O. S. I', look ••O'l l'|ioo the Inek eat Ol a city luin| ing cart! W. F., HI. The football team, 1895 KENYON! AT GAMBIER, 0., Saturday, Ufa; 29th. GAME CALUJD AT 246 “In this period [1862-1896] athletics, and intercollegiate athletics in particular, became an absorbing interest, and Kenyon established for herself a place among the fore- most Ohio colleges. There were few kinds of athletic sport common at that time in American colleges which were not attempted at Gambier. Lacrosse was tried: hare and hounds raced over the county . . .” “Baseball has been played at Kenyon ever since 1859 at least, but its great vogue was after the war. Most of the early games were between rival class nines. In the seven- ties Kenyon and Western Reserve, then at Hudson, used to interchange annual games . . .” In October, 1881. the history of organized football at Kenyon began: and on the first of November. 1890, Ken- yon played at Granville its first intercollegiate game of modern football. The score was Denison 14, Kenyon 0. When Denison returned their visit. Kenyon won. 22 to 8. Kenyon’s early record was remarkable; but her victories were not so astonishing as they appear, for the football team was not composed entirely of men drawn from the college, hut Bexley Hall and the Military Academy, in which there was an enrollment of more than one hun- dred. supplied manv of the players. Thus was at that time entirely legitimate. G. F. Smythe 1 Kenyon’s first Greek-let ter fraternity. Lambda Chapter of Delta Kappa Epsilon originated in 1852 in defiance of a college ban on such organizations. Its recognition by the faculty in 1854 paved the way for the emergence of other fraternities, of which the earliest were Alpha Delta Phi in 1858, Psi Upsilon in I860. Beta Theta Pi in 1879, and Delta Tau Delta in 1881. By the eighties nearly ev- ery incoming freshman pledged a fraternity, and for eighty years the social life of the College revolved around them. Even in the late 1960’s over eighty |H?r cent of in- coming freshmen pledged. The figure has fallen off rap- idly in recent years: about two thirds of the Class of '72, sixty per cent of 73, half of 74. forty | er cent of 75, less than thirty per cent of 76. Kenyon’s youngest fraternity. Alpha Sigma Chi (1965) was the first victim of this de- cline in interest, going out of existence in May of 1972. It seems likely that the 1970’s will be recorded as the decade that saw at least the beginning of the end for fraternities at Kenyon. The first DKE lodge. 1855-1871 The Psi U’s. c. 1925, on the steps of Clifford Place. Now the resi- dence of Dean Edwards, this house, built in 1858, was used by Psi Upsilon as a lodge for a few years during the twenties. i 4 The Betas, 1895 23 Along with the Old Kenyon and Military Academy fires, rhi most serious calamity ever to befall the College was the death of freshman Stuart L. Pierson on Octolwr 28. •‘jo... during a DKK initiation. It was the custom at that • pi, t assign to each initiate some remote spot where he in .i wait alone until the actives of tin- chapter came to •t him to the lodge. Pierson was at the east end of • i . ilii .id bridge at the foot of the hill, and in some pl;.a:«-d wa ' he was rim over and killed by an ia-dii! ‘ l train. The story that he was tied to the to u,:‘) popularly In-licved to this day. has never , on. Mv, iy proven. Hut the sensational journalism ui tl • i i., h, •' ,i heyday with the event, as the cartoon at npjh i I.: uai ales; and the College suffered a pro- nounced I'l'iuliment slump which lasted for a decade. The i ane rusi i traditional contest of long standing, was conducted I lacing a cane on a field between the Freshman and ' nhomore classes. At a prescribed signal they charged fort : the class with the most hands on the cane at the end a certain time was declared the win- ner. — Ur 10 DAtt coiuct nuwonn mum I’he Freshman Pajama Parade, c. I960 24 Stuart L. Pierson The Freshman-Sophomore Tug-of-War. U lra-Cu rrieu I«r A ( i vities 25 26 Hill and Anne Wilson with Sam Montague, April 1946 “In general, the Kenyon man is con- servative in philosophy. He dresses, talks, and thinks conservatively. After thorough test and examina- tion, the Kenyon man usually agrees with the great writers and thinkers of the past. He has learned to proceed with caution and to keep always in mind the original verities of thought and behavior which have withstood the tests of time and ex- igence. He is tolerant of — and frequently agrees with — those who understand and admire modern art or music, hut he is slow to accept rash, new. world-shattering theories or discoveries which are arrived at impulsively.” from the 1953 REVEILLE “The Kenyon man is humble. He realizes the wisdom of social as well as intellectual humility. In academic life, and in private conversations with his friends, the Kenyon man is cautious in stating his opinions, careful that they are correct accord- ing to his understanding; and he states them frankly but with humil- ity. He is intelligent enough to un- derstand that his opinions can hardly Ik correct for all times and under all circumstances. As an im- portant eorrolary of his humility, the Kenyon man believes that there is somewhere a l eing greater than himself; he believes in God.” 1973 27 “Had I known there would lx women here my junior year, I never would have come here in the first place.” I’d rather have a date from Lake Erie, seriously, because then you don’t have to lx- bothered with her all week long - it’s less hassle. - from 1970 REVEILLE files from the Collegian, February 2. 1907 28 Octolxr 5, 1969 The Wing House, 1968. It was named after its first occupant. Professor Marcus Tullius Cicero Wing, who directed the building of the wings of Old Kenyon. He later built Reauing, the house on West Brooklyn Street now occupied by Pro- fessor Short. October 15. 1968 Women students were first brought to Kenyon through the agency of the Coordinate College for Women, which existed under the watchful eye of Dean Doris Crozier from 1969 to 1972. The new in- stitution was welcomed with open satiric arms by the student press, as the two cartoons at the left of the opposite page suggest. The lower one appeared on the cover of the Collegian spring dance humor issue of 1964, a tongue-in-cheek blurb for a mythical institution known as Chase College for Women which bore certain alarming resemblances to the projected Coordinate College. A number of the first entering freshmen were daughters of Kenyon alum- ni. and they posed for a poup photograph during an open house in the fall of 1969. The Wing House, built in 1834 and the home of some of Kenyon and Bexley's most distinguished faculty members, was demolished in 1968 to make way for Gund Commons. At the groundbreaking a ceremonial bottle of champagne, whose remains are still preserved in the College archives, was broken over the blade of a bulldozer bv President Capies; and the project was on. The Coordinate College’s last building was Dorm III; and Dean Crozier posed on top of it with Vice-President Lord and Pam Carmichael as soon as it reached its full height (and l efore the stairs did), looking, as it were, toward the future. The future, for the Coordinate College, turned out to lx very short indeed. On July 1. 1972, Kenyon College officially became the coeducational institution it is now. Vice-President Samuel S. Lord, Pam Carmichael '73. and Dean Doris Crozier. Spring 1971 29 30 Well, while I’m here I’ll do the work — and what’s the Work? To ease the pair� of living. Everything else, drunken dumbshow. — Allen Ginsberg. Fall of America Kent Harrison Rob Black Todd Leavitt •John Himmel Dick LeBolt feKSMB 33 Charlie Steuber 34 Katy Fishman Winston Pickett Laurie Gross Genie McKee Kristina Peterson 35 Melanie Jackson Kathy Quinn Linda Urban Bill Fuller Cathy Carter Sue Schroeder Jayne Holmes Linda Bernavs Kitsy Hanson Peggy Livingston 37 Chip Duval Andy Bourland Scotty Miller Julie Miller 1 Donna Kantey Nick Gray Mia Halton and Linda Peterson Pegi Goodman Handy Navarre Anne Lacy Bruce Kennedy Michael Bradley B. Kay Koeninger Dick Mulligan Dave Trost Jefr Schachmut Kim Booth Hob Kirkpatrick Carol Eyler Al Frigy Robi Art man Jim Hodge Bobbie Mill erg Candy Davis Mike Duffy •left Bennett Matt Valencir and Charlie Contrada Tom Shantz and Creg Costa Dan Handel Larry Wit ten brook Scott Douglas and Josh Bill Ed Moran Pete Schneeberger Jeff Mouckley Tom Philips Mark Holderman Caroline Nesbitt Amy Goodwin Laurie Sherwood Leonie Silverman Becky Lord Merrill Tomlinson Cathi Sonneborn Patty Kanet Mary Wampler Lloyd Klein Bruce Duncan and Linda Bunsey Jackson Au. Mark Sandson, and Paul Gaddis Dave Eddy Dave Linnenkohl Art Underwood Ed Meyer Jim Maisel Rob Rockhold, Jeff Sedgwick, Bruce Tarpinian Tom Teicher Mitch Jablons Ron Schwartz Rosecrans Baldwin We thought we could sit for- ever in fun, And our chances really were a million to one . . — Boh Dylan, Freewheelin' 50 Denise Largent Jim Wright Hugh McElrath Robert E. I ee Claster Gordy Chalmers and R.O.T.C. friend Larry Swenson 'fed VVedig and Tom Epps Michael LeBlanc Chuck Semple Toby Pitts Cheryl Rubino Jane Schultz Joan Mayfield Greg Hunt and Lucinda Haer 53 Ellyn Greenspan Bob Schellhase, Pam Morgan, and Dave ann John Davis Dave Landefeld Jim Loomis Jim Lucas Carl Mueller 54 Joe Finnegan Paul Dellasaga Paul Makowski Mike Hirechfeld Lisa Myers Jon Roth Sarah McElroy Liz Forman Jackie Robbins Chris Bloom Bill Bechtel 56 Ann Weister “Have ye leisure, comfort, calm, Shelter, food, love’s gentle halm? Or what is it ye buy so dear With your pain and with your fear? — Percy Bysshe Shelley, Song to the Men of England” Ben Gray Jean Dunbar 57 Steve Pavio vie Jeff Herm Tear Palar Mardi McCleery Andy Brilliant 1 Greg Andorfer 59 Richard Katz and Patti Jo Robertson 60 61 Dave Roberts Vinnic Wright Tom Heany Frances Babinec Marie Charvat • Linda ClifTel Joanie Vance •Judy Hoffman ■ Doretha Smallwood Ulysses B. Hammond Loreen Ludy ... 'J Barb and Johnny Johnson 65 66 Annie and Hick Bingham Examinations, when the man was weighed As in a balance! of excessive hopes. Tremblings withal and commendable fears, Small jealousies and triumphs good or bad. Let others that know more speak as they know. Such glory was but little sought by me, And little won. Yet from the first crude days Of settling time in this untried abode, I was disturbed at times by prudent thoughts, Wishing to ho| e without a hope, some fears About my future worldly maintenance, And, more than all, a strangeness in the mind. Peeling t hat 1 was not for that hour. Nor for that place.” — William Wordsworth, The Prelude: Pooh III 71 Of College labors, of the Lecturer's room All studded round, as thick as chairs could stand. With loyal students faithful to their books. Half-and-half idlers, hardy recusants, And honest dunces - of important days . . 72 - William Wordsworth. The Prelude: Hook “Nature does not know extinction; all it know? is transformation. Everything science h taught me, strengthens mv belief in the contin- uity of spiritual existence after death ' — Wernher van Braun 74 75 76 77 78 82 A 84 85 A 86 “A Kenyon party is an unusual thing- After Jack has worked hard, he is willing to play just as vigorously. When a group of Kenyon men gather together for relax- ation. the wit. songs, and good humor combine to make a unique and extremely pleasant rest from toil.” - from the 1953 REVEILLE 89 i 90 y,Ji , v r I 93 I 95 % CAPTAIN KENYON COLLEGE Archimedes will Ik remembered when Aeschylus is for- gotten because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. 97 — G. H. Hardy. A Mathematician's Apology 101 102 106 I.ifes processes are very simple. One or two moves are made and that is the end. The rest s repetitious.” - W. C. Williams, Spring and All 108 no Ill I A personal relation was a relation onlv so long as people either perfectly understood or. better still, didn’t care if they didn't.” - Henry James. The Ambassadors ll? Normal science, the activity in which most scientists inevitably spend almost all of their time, is predicated on the assumption that the scientific community knows what the world is like. - Thomas Kuhn. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions [W'litiiiii'f 115 : if, 7k A .9 i] ] MOUNT VERNON ... is located i the very heart of Ohio, the nation's cross roads and at the hub of the greatest con cent ration of industrial activity in th United States. Seventy-five percent of th combined populations of the Unita States and Canada live within 650 mile of Mount Vernon.” — from the Mt. Vernon Telephon� Director v i' .’ t.' i ‘ i ' i. l f■' ii I Si f L J L.J. .L .vL..1-lv-1 _li_l1 h_, X I SNOWS TAVERN SNOWS TAVERN I $T =AKS CHOPS BEVERAGES--- Kfr MT W ;V: V 1 A A h ( y? .U..L A I’ I I I 'feA'V-v.v. ■ . 1 %i ■ ' i. • M ‘ 119 120 121 122 - - ■ . “About the paranoia often noted under the drug, there is nothing remarkable. Like other sorts of paranoia, it is nothing less than the onset, the leading edge, of the discovery that everythin is connected, everything in the Creation, a secondary illumination — not yet blindingly One but at least connected, and perhaps a root In for those like Tchitcherine who are held at the edge . . . — Thomas Pynchon. Gravity's Rainbow 123 124 M 125 126 127 What use. Milton, a silly story Of our lost general parents, eaters of fruit? In ten thousand years the Sierras W ill be dry and dead, home of the scorpion. Ice-scratched slabs and bent trees. No paradise, no fall. Only the weathering land The wheeling sky, Man, with his Satan Scouring the chaos of the mind. Oh Hell! — Gary Snyder, Milton by Firelight” 6ZI 130 i 2 f? 131 Peters Placebo — An ounce of image is worth pound of performance.” — Laurence F. Peter and Raymond Hall. Theft Princti 132 135 137 138 At lunchtime under Black oak Out in the hot corral. - The old mare nosing lunchpails. Grasshoppers crackling in the weeds — I'm sixty-eight.' he said. ‘I first bucked hay when I was seventeen. I thought, that day I started. I sure would hate to do this all my life. And dammit, that’s just what I’ve gone and done.’ 139 - Gary Snyder. Hay for the Horses 140 141 142 143 i My work speaks for itself. - Charles Gagnon. Sculptor First I eat and then I art.” - REVEILLE 73 145 To enter the body is difficult, the belly is full of bad smell -inn wind.” - Allen Ginsberg. The Fall of America 148 I What is here is elsewhere; what is not here is nowhere.' - Rig Veda 155 REVEILLE 73 Editor: Robert Horowitz, A.B. 73 Associate Editor: Bray S. Ficken, A.B. 73 Advisor: Michael O’Brien Photography: Howard Leaman. Robert Horowitz, Bill Keyes, Steve Dachman. Andy Brilliant, Hot-N-Nasty 44, Richard Specter, Joe Nucci, Lauren Elliott, Steve Block, and Kevin Martin. History of Kenyon: Jim Carson and Gail Myer Layout: Hot-N-Nasty 44. Cowboy Bob, Gail Myer, Rick Ripley (Alumni Edi- tor), Lauren Elliott, Kevin Martin, Pam Cole, and D. B. Thomson (Science Editor). COPY: Richard Katz REVEILLE 73 is especially indebted to Caki Tashiro, for her darkroom hours; Thomas B. Greenslade, Sr., College Archivist; Bill Long, Public Rela- tions; I)r. H. Landon Warner; John B. Hattendorf, A Dusty Path; Louise G. Adams, Harcourt Parish: 1827-1967; and. George F. Smyth, Kenyon College: Its First Century.