Word: kenyon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last drive, Edward T. Kenyon '50 was vampired for an extra pint while another student vamped one of the female blood-letters on Memorial Hall steps. Kenyon quickly restored his internal liquid supply at a local beer emporium, but admitted that it was a trying experience...
...slow to speak up; they were afraid they might be misunderstood. But here & there a voice was raised. First was the Commission on Liberal Education of the Association of American Colleges, which carries some top names in U.S. education, led by Gordon Keith Chalmers, president of Ohio's Kenyon College. But the commission's phrases made no headlines. U.S. colleges, the commission insisted, had always insisted on students with "above average capacity." Did that make them "aristocratic," as the President's Commission had suggested...
...Among the authors of the report: Harvard's Robert S. Hillyer and Theodore Morrison, Princeton's Donald A. Stauffer, Columbia's Lionel Trilling, Yale's Dean William C. DeVane, Wesleyan's President Victor L. Butterfield, Hunter's President George N. Shuster, Kenyon's President Gordon K. Chalmers...
...magazine of any weight. To help fill the vacuum, 23 colleges had joined as sponsors - "the largest Western college league ever organized," cracked one reviewer, "to support anything but athletics." Last week Pacific Spectator began its second year. It had not yet grown to the stature of a Yale, Kenyon or Sewanee Review, but it was at least gaining weight. The fifth quarterly issue went to 8,000 buyers, a gain of 3,000 from the first. To win them (at $3.50 a year), Spectator had turned an appraising gaze on Western writers, from Saroyan to Steinbeck. It had given...
...Bertrand de Poulanger, Clyde Eagleton '48 as the Steward, Robert P. Atkinson '50 as Gilles de Rais, Whitley Y. Dresser '50 as Captain La Hire, David F. Wheeler '47 as D'Estivet, Richard Robbins '50 as De Courcelles, Thomas H. Philips '47 as the Executioner, Edward T. Kenyon '50 as Gentleman of 1920, and Robert E. Rockman '46 as Due de Tremouille...