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Elected. Gordon Keith Chalmers, 33, president of Rockfofd (Ill.) College; to the presidency of Kenyon College (Gambier, Ohio), succeeding Rev. Dr. William Foster Peirce; in Cleveland...
Like many another Midwestern school, Kenyon College at tiny Gambier, Ohio was built by one of the many Eastern clergymen who swarmed into the Western territories after the War of 1812. Since then Kenyon has passed two stiff tests. First was to face down the animosity of its Ohio neighbors who, learning that Founder-Bishop Philander Chase had raised his first $30,000 from the British nobility, firmly believed that Kenyon was a British fort. That notion Kenyon scouted by graduating many a stanch U. S. citizen, including two members of the Lincoln Cabinet, Secretary of War Edwin McMasters Stanton...
Kenyon College (Gambier, Ohio...
Before returning to Harvard, from which he had graduated in 1886, Dr. Winter had taught for 12 years at Michigan Military Academy and had served a short term as headmaster of Kenyon Military Academy, Gambier, Ohio. In addition to his work here at College, he gave numerous courses at the different graduate schools and at Radcliffe, Columbia, and the University of California. The graduate schools at which he lectured include the Theological School, the Law School, Andover Theological Seminary, and the Episcopal Theological School. He also taught at the Summer School. He was the author of several books on Public...
...young male of that village was already romping lustily in the pantalettes of the period and beginning to play "soldiers." It was just after the Civil War, a martial moment. Young Guy Despard Goff, six years John Davis's senior, was sent to Kenyon Military Academy, up at Gambier, Ohio. Later he went to Harvard and became a lawyer, practicing in Boston first, then Milwaukee. Perhaps he wished, as the years went by, that circumstances had permitted him to remain in Clarksburg, the way John William Davis...