Word: kenyon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Advertising gains have been matched by a steady increase in magazine circulation, much of it attributable, says M.P.A. Executive Vice President Robert E. Kenyon Jr., to an impressive increase in the number of high school and college graduates-whose ranks supply most magazine readers. "Our surveys, using 1940 as a base year," said Kenyon, "project a 174% increase in high school graduates by 1970-and a 163% increase in magazine circulation...
Yale President Kingman Brewster Jr. said that although freshmen were picked for their intellectual ability, their "moral capacity" had also been taken into account. Success at Kenyon, said Dean Bruce Haywood, ultimately depends on a student's "individual taste and moral judgment." "The collection of knowledge is only the starting point," echoed Curtis Tarr, president of Lawrence University at Appleton, Wis. At Pomona College, one of the six associated Claremont Colleges of California, President E. Wilson Lyons also greeted freshmen with a call to use knowledge for moral ends...
Fortnight ago, a silver-haired Southern gentleman named John Crowe Ransom stood up in Manhattan to receive the 1964 National Book Award for poetry. As founder and editor of the Kenyon Review, mentor to a platoon of celebrated poets and writers, and father of the New Criticism, Ransom is probably the most influential U.S. scholar-critic of the past 40 years. As the author of a few slender books of poetry, he has drawn the highest praise from the knottiest intellectuals of his time...
...cast are Richard L. Beiser '64, Henry T. Bell '64, Kenyon C. Bolton '65, David L. Carrol '64, Samuel S. Drury, Jr. '64, Brin R. Ford '65, Williams M. Hitzig '63, Douglas R. Jackson '65, James P. McBaine '65, Kevin M. McGrath '65, Evaristo obregon IV '64, Charles E. Pierce...
...years ago, this barren acreage looked to the unknowing eye like plenty of sun-baked nothing. But ebullient Real Estate Promoter Thomas Darlington and Partner Kenyon T. Palmer, who bought the sand for as little as $100 an acre, saw nuggets in every boulder. Their original 800 acres, broken up into two-acre lots, have all been sold for as much as $10,000 a lot, and 1,600 more acres have been added. Fifty houses have already been built, and three or four more are started each week. The splendor of Carefree's citizenry encourages Promoter Darlington...