Kenyon College - Reveille Yearbook (Gambier, OH)

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 Time is passing . . .

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INTRODUCTION

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Time is passing, I can tell because I’m sitting in Chalmers Library, books sprawled out in front of me, and ever)’ fifteen minutes the Church of the Holy Spirit's bell carves up the eternal into little artificial units of the temporal, reminding me that time is passing more quickly than I can write my history paper. 1 look out through the windows of the library, like the thousands who have come before and who will come after me, and wonder if I’m ever going to get this paper done for Mr. Browning. For a few minutes I push away the books and papers to ruminate over this passing year and the years that came before. Sifting through the debris and detritus of the past I look for the signs of the present and the signposts towards the future, wondering how the hell we ever got to the state of mind called Kenyon College — and if survival is too cynical to describe our passage through its labyrinth. It’s difficult to talk about the present without in- ferring the past. Wc were bom during the reign of a boring president, a smiling general who played golf at Burning Tree; whom most of us remember as a vague historical shadow, if wc choose to remember him at all.