Word: kenyon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meeting served as a kickoff for an endowment drive. Goal: $2,160,000-more than Kenyon's present total endowment-for a new library, new athletic field house, increased faculty salaries (Kenyon has one faculty member for every nine students...
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...
Like many another U.S. college, Kenyon was founded as a school for the training of clergymen. Later becoming a liberal arts college, it still maintains relations with the Episcopal Church, but accepts students of all faiths, has a separate theological seminary (Bexley Hall). Until recently the undergraduate body has been limited to 300 (about half of them Ohioans, on the average). This year's G.I.-swollen enrollment is a record 500, and the college plans to settle down to a postwar...
Last week's 500 conference guests-including the present Baron Kenyon, 28, and his lady-temporarily doubled the town's population. They found a green and wooded campus with architecture ranging from the massive, crenelated Gothic of Old Kenyon, through degrees of Victorian adornment, to Gothic of the Age of Cram. But Kenyon is careful to keep its 19th Century ivy rustling. It is particularly proud of its young (42) president, who was only 33 when he got the job; of its flying field and its curricular course in practical aeronautics, soon to be resumed after a wartime...
Unlike Philander Chase's money-raising drive, President Chalmers' is not a matter of life or death to the college. Kenyon, like all accredited small colleges, has its immediate future guaranteed by the G.I. Bill of Rights...