Kenyon College - Reveille Yearbook (Gambier, OH)

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1 vi5 -1 .m The Schaeffers vimming poc )1, now the dance studio, 1950. ■R - MMB ati i r |- VaB 1 ' ' ' ■ ' vL il :v f :% il y ., Vi Ithough we still share the same surroundings as the , students from our Kenyon past did, many ex- periences are dramatically different to- day. Before 1860, when there were only oral exams, a student described the academic atmosphere as one of . . . short, pointed questions of the ex- aminers . . . and the equally precise answers of the student; all this was so much like clock-work and oppressive, that the scene reminded us of certain historical paintings of the Inquisition. During the same era, the important ac- tivities outside of class were fishing or hunting and sharpening one ' s debating skills in a literary society. The original Philomathesian Society, in 1832, when Edwin M. Stanton, the famous secretary of war under Lincoln, was a member, divided into societies because of Nor- thern and Southern tensions. Philomathesian and the new southern group, Nu Pi Kappa, were usually respectful of each other but for two years, they carried weapons to protect themselves from each other. Fortunate- ly, no blood was shed. The middle of the 1800 ' s marked the transition from literary societies to fraternities, athletics, and other social functions. Delta Kappa Epsilon was the first fraternity to appear at Kenyon, and baseball was the first important sport to entertain the students. The singing school, as it was dubbed in later years, first enjoyed its music at this time as American colleges carried Latin songs over from Germany. Perhaps a golden age in Kenyon ' s athletic history was the late 1930 ' s when Kenyon were national champs in tennis, flying competition, and near champions in Polo. Kenyon has always been a school in which its students worked hard, and played hard. In the early sixties Kenyon was ranked the third best school in the country. We have always strived for the best and continue to strive. John Danbury ' 87 Kenyon Milit irv Academy commissioned ranks 1895.

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