Kenyon College - Reveille Yearbook (Gambier, OH)

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 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

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“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

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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