Word: kenyon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...college recounted the fire's toll: first, two who had been killed in jumps, then another who died of a head injury in the hospital. Six more were missing and for them hope soon died. When the count was completed, nine were listed as dead, 25 injured. For Kenyon College it was the most tragic week in its 125-year history...
Last week, grey-haired, grey-eyed, forceful Helen Kenyon was handed another "first" and a big job along with it. The General Council of the Congregational Christian Churches elected her Moderator-the first woman to head the church. Her election was recognition of Miss Kenyon's work as a director and vice president of the church's Board of Home Missions and as first woman chairman of the Missions Council...
...addition to Moderator Kenyon, Congregationalists also acquired a book last week. Titled A Book of Worship for Free Churches (Oxford, $1.50), it is designed to bring new order into the every-minister-for-himself system of worship that has hitherto been the practice in Congregational churches...
...Among U.S. poets and critics who will teach at Kenyon's new School of English during the next three summers: Tate, Robert Penn Warren, Robert Lowell, Cleanth Brooks, Lionel Trilling, William Empson, Matthiessen, R. P. Blackmur, Yvor Winters...