Word: kenyon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Board of Overseers yesterday approved the appointment of Robert Harrison, 40, coach at Kenyon College in Ohio for the last ten years, as new basketball coach. Succeeding Floyd S. Wilson--now full-time director of intramural athletics--Harrison received a three-year contract...
...Kenyon, Harrison faced an even sterner challenge and brought if off. An editor of the Kenyon student newspaper said last night that when Harrison arrived there, "he had no material and only 50 or 100 people attended the games...
...returned to Cambridge to muddle through a bit more and, although it seemed impious to his parents for a Lowell to reject Harvard, he was allowed to transfer to Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, where Ransom and Randall Jarrell now taught. They were to make the Kenyon Review into a dominant force in American poetry and criticism for the next three decades. "I am the sort of poet I am because...
...rigorous formal demands of the New Criticism of Ransom and Tate dammed up the first freshet of his verse. His poems were blocked with a deliberate opaque quality, as if he feared that clarity were a sign of mediocrity. Still, he seemed stimulated by restraint. He emerged from Kenyon summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa and class valedictorian. He also emerged a Roman Catholic convert and a husband...
...cultural pursuits-in which hundreds of the gifted, the talented or the merely qualified would live from grant to mouth, or move, like modern Lollard friars, from college to college, claiming hospitality by right of authorship. The Lowells drifted to Louisiana State University, and then back to Kenyon. Lowell's poetry was excruciatingly difficult and ambiguous; as he said later, "it really wasn't poetry...