Kenyon College - Reveille Yearbook (Gambier, OH)

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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.

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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

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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