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This week, Robert Frost will head west for Kenyon College, in Gambier, Ohio, where poets, scholars and editors will gather to do him honor. They will swap ideas, discuss "The Poet and Reality," see a production of A Masque of Mercy, and pay their respects to their old friend...
...Harvard professors will be among the speakers at the Kenyon College conference in honor or Robert Frost '01 which will be held in Gambier, Ohio, on Friday, October 5, through Sunday, October...
...PATRIDES Kenyon College Gambier, Ohio...
...last week, sleeping students in the Gothic-style men's dormitory at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio awoke to hoarse shouts of "Fire!" By then, the 120-year-old building was doomed. Smoke billowed through corridors, and flames (which had started in a defective flue) were rolling up the old-fashioned stair well in the center of the building. As men jumped from their beds and opened doors that were already warm, the fire tore through the roof, rushed crackling along the eaves to the wings. Some students dashed out before it was too late. Some jumped from windows...
...room of Matthews Hall and founded "The Harvard Lampoon, or Cambridge Charivari Illustrated, Humorous, Etc." One of the earliest issues--a collector's item if that's your idea of a good time--carried, in addition to advertisements for "Silk Smoking Caps, Japanese" and "Brier-wood and Meershaum Pipes, Gambier Bowls, and Toilet Articles," and pen-and-ink drawing of two typical Harvard students ensconced in a gaslit chamber. One gentleman, collared in celluloid, is reclining in a lace-fringed chair, smoking a catarrh cigarette and casually flicking ashes into a brass spittoon. The other is standing firmly before...