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...back room of Matthews Hall and founded "The Harvard Lampoon, or Cambridge Charivari. Illustrated, Humorous, Etc." One of the earliest editions--a collectors' item if that's your idea of a good time--carried, in addition to advertisements for "Silk Smoking Caps, Japanese" and "Brier-wood and Meerschaum Pipes, Gambier Bowls, and Toilet Articles," a 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...
...Ohio landscape is dotted with colleges, big & small (only bigger New York and Pennsylvania have more). Of Ohio's 44, little Kenyon, in tiny Gambier, is one of the oldest, best-known, and best-looking. Kenyon (chartered in 1824) came into the world when Philander Chase, the horse-riding Episcopal Bishop of Ohio, stood on top of an oak-wooded hill in 1825 and announced to the wilderness: "This will...
There was more than a British angle to Kenyon's first money raising effort. Founder Chase's original $30,000 for Kenyon was, in fact, the gift of a British group including Lords Kenyon and Gambier (Henry Clay, having met and liked Lord Gambier at the Treaty of Ghent negotiations, gave Chase a letter of introduction to him). Because of this backing, and because Kenyon's first building had walls four feet thick, surrounding frontier settlers suspected the college of being a British fort. Kenyon's ultimate response was the turning out of such stanch...
...light carrier (Princeton), two escort carriers (St. Lo and Gambier Bay), two destroyers (Johnston and Hoel) and one destroyer escort (Samuel B. Roberts...
...Kenyon: when 350 soldiers leave for active duty, there will be only 74 civilian students on the campus at Gambier, Ohio...