Word: kenyon
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...current number of the Inland Monthly contains an interesting and finely illustrated article on Kenyon College...
About 170 members of the Psi Upsilon Fraternity, representing each of the nineteen chapters, attended the annual banquet at Delmonico's, New York. The fraternity since 1833 has established chapters at Union, Amherst, Hamilton, Dartmouth, Bowdoin, Columbia, Trinity, Harvard, Yale and Kenyon colleges, also Lehigh, Syracuse. Rochester, Chicago, Wesleyan, Michigan, Brown, Cornell and New York universities, and in New York city and vacinity has about 1200 members. The circular recently issued stated that "the purpose of this banquet is to assemble the members and organize a New York Psi Upsilon Alumni Association." In accordance with this circular such a society...
...Taylor, Fillmore, Lincoln, and Johnson did not go to college. Grant was educated at West Point, the two Adamses at Harvard; Jefferson, Munroe and Tyler, at William and Mary's College; Madison at Princeton, Polk at the University of North Carolina, Pierce at Bowdoin, Buchanan at Dickinson, Hayes at Kenyon College, Garfield at Williams, and Arthur at Union. Out of twenty-one, thirteen of our presidents received collegiate training...
...large number of the officials at the head of the present administration are college men. Arthur is a graduate of Union, David Davis of Kenyon, Frelinghuysen of Rutgers, Lincoln of Harvard, Folger of Hobart and Brewster of Princeton. Besides these, in the Forty-seventh Congress now holding its last session, 39 of the 76 senators have received a collegiate education, and in the House of Representatives, 152 out of 299 have enjoyed similar advantages. - [University Quarterly...
Homer's catalogue of ships can only be rivalled in prolixity by a catalogue of the innumerable colleges and "universities" of the West. Ohio, perhaps, can claim to be the greatest mother of colleges in the Union; at least her brood is more numerous than any other. Kenyon, Oberlin, University of Wooster, Baldwin University, Ohio Wesleyan University, Ohio University (located amid the classic shades of "Athens"), Heidelberg College, Denison University, Wittenberg College, Antioch College - the list is truly apalling. The predominance of the title, "University," in such a list as the above is very significant. Nothing seems to satisfy...