Kenyon College - Reveille Yearbook (Gambier, OH)

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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.

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: 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

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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