Word: kenyon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lunatic Moment. Precocious Perry Carlton Lentz, born in Alabama 79 years after the massacre, started writing The Falling Hills as an honors project for a B.A. degree at Kenyon College in Ohio. He mined the eyewitness reports of Fort Pillow survivors as preserved in the National Archives. Now a doddering 24, and an old soldier of the campus (he is taking his Ph.D. in English at Vanderbilt University, Nashville), Lentz has published a book with none of the sweet-magnolia swash and polished ballroom buckle of Gone With the Wind but much of the visceral realism that characterized MacKinlay Kantor...
...across the nation, separate-sex schools are rapidly going coed, and some educators wonder whether colleges that do not go along with the trend will survive at all. "Nowhere in the world," insists Vassar President Alan Simpson, "is anyone really making a powerful argument for separate education any more." Kenyon College President Franze Edward Lund agrees that separate education "is an anachronism in an age that admits less and less distinction between the sexes in both professional and social life...
...trend toward coeducation takes many forms, ranging from outright enrollment of the opposite sex to varying degrees of cooperation among sexually segregated schools. Kenyon, a liberal-arts college for men in Gambier, Ohio, expects to go coed within two years, is leaning toward the creation of a coordinate women's college. So is all-male Colgate University in Hamilton, N.Y. Wells College, a selective women's school along the shores of New York's Cayuga Lake, expects to accept male undergraduates within five years, probably in a coordinate men's branch...
...these reasons we are planning as a cooperative venture of the Great Lakes Colleges Association a summer institute for 1968 at Kenyon College devoted to the study of the German Democratic Republic and aimed at an objective assessment of what has been termed "the German problem."-Since we have found it simple to travel in East Germany, the institute program will entail a four-week study tour there...
...PROF.) EDMUND P. HECHT Kenyon College Gambier, Ohio...