Digital Kenyon: Research, Scholarship, and Creative Exchange The Kenyon Collegian College Archives 1-1-1893 Kenyon Collegian - January 1893 Follow this and additional works at: https://digital.kenyon.edu/collegian Recommended Citation "Kenyon Collegian - January 1893" (1893). The Kenyon Collegian. 1314. https://digital.kenyon.edu/collegian/1314 This News Article is brought to you for free and open access by the College Archives at Digital Kenyon: Research, Scholarship, and Creative Exchange. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Kenyon Collegian by an authorized administrator of Digital Kenyon: Research, Scholarship, and Creative Exchange. For more information, please contact [email protected]. cnyon an. Devoted to the interests of Kenyon College. Vol. XIX. Gambier, Ohio, January, 1893. No. 8. editors: preserve their copies. The picture is Kobt. Watson, '93, - - - Editor-in-Chie- f J. familiar to all of us and we trust that at F. J. Doolittle, '94, - - - Business Manager least fifteen of the faces will occupy no associate editors: less prominent places in next year's team C. V. Sanfoud, '94, Literary picture. The team will lose but three E. B. Cochkane, '93, - - - Personal and Local Inter-Collegiat- B. A. Dumper, '95, - Exchange and e men Captain Foley, H. Williams, and Manager Watson. The benefit of this correspondents: year's experience and training on the re-main- g Allan Napier, '63 New York fifteen will more than compensate Clifford A. Neff, '88 Cleveland Ralph S. Holbrook, '87 Toledo for their loss, even if we are to suppose Henry G. Perky, 'o3 --. .Chicago that the team will draw no valuable Hugh Sterling, '87 St. Louis material from the incoming Freshman Rollin B. Hubbard, '91 San Francisco Class. The earnest conscientious work of All communications, contributions, and other these men has, however, contributed much matter for publication should be sent to Robt. toward the success of this and of preceding J. Watson. teams. All of them hope to be back for Business letters should be addressed, and all bills made payable to F. J. Doolittle. a time next year to coach the Eleven of All subscriptions continued until notice of dis- '93, of which great success is prophesied. continuance is received and all arrearages paid. Communications and contributions solicited from every one connected with Kenyon College, There is mailed with this issue of the and especially from the alumni. Collegian an Alumni Supplement, in The Editor-in-Chie- f is personally responsible for everything that enters into the columns of which there is given an account of the this paper. Cleveland Dinner, held by that Alumni Association at the " Stillman." We can TERMS--$1- .00 PER YEAR (IF PAID IN ADVANCE). not overestimate the value of such meet- EDITORIAL. ings and the good that is done by the enthusiasm there aroused. Dr. Sterling With this issue of the Collegian we was necessarily absent from the meeting, present to our subscribers a small cut of but the sentiment and condition of the the past season's Foot Ball Team, bound " Hill " were manifested by the remarks of in with the paper. This plan has been Prof. Benson and of Mr. Atwater who was adopted that, in addition to the various present and spoke for the under graduates. records which are preserved in the files of None of the addresses were more enthusi- the paper, there may be kept a recol- astically received and no truth met with lection of the teams themselves. The more applause than that itwas theintention value of these cuts at some future time of the present faculty to keep the standard will be almost priceless to those who up to that of which we so proudly boast. 8S THE COLLEGIAN. While it is (he intention of the present tendance in the three departments show a board of instruction to continue broadening gain of almost an hundered per centum in the curriculum, care will be taken that it the College, a slight gain in the attendance is not done at t he expense of thoroughness of (he Seminary, and a loss in that of the and to the exclusion ol those studies which Preparatory School. When (he student form the ground work of a liberal educa- body has made itself thoroughly con- tion. The present faculty has shown great versant with all the facts here set forth, sagacity and wisdom in such of those pro- every catalogue should be used to accom- visions as they have already made, en- plish the purpose for which it was pub- larging only that list of electives which lished. Catalogues will be furnished upon appertain to the Junior year. It is the application, and by a judicious distribution wish of all that the "required work" be among the acquaintances of students abbreviated, but that result can be success- already here, more benefit may be accom- fully accomplished only by a most judicious plished than by the adoption of any other selection of elective work. course. This knowledge and implication is given for the use of ntndents, and we At the beginning of the term appeared trust that it will be so taken. the new catalogue which has been com- piled and published under the direction Tiik term's work upon which we are and careful supervision of Dr. Sterling. now entering is the most important of the In point of typographical precision, as well year, because the conditions are more as of the subject matter it contains, it is favorable to thorough study than at any the most perfect one Kenyon has ever other time, and because it is that season had. In addition to matter included in at which college "conditions" must be previous catalogues, it contains a mention "worked oil" if cancelled at all. As the of the Foley Prizes in English, an scholarship reports at the close of last enumeration of the Standing Committees term's work, and the more recent salutary of the Board of Trustees, a schedule of chapel-remark- s of our President have most courses showing the divergence of the forcibly and pointedly suggested to many courses leading to the several degrees, a of us, every man in college should, for brief resume of the requirements of the this season, endeavor to utilize his entire several departments, a catalogue of the time. Time lost now is indeed "lost for- living alumni of the College, and a list of ever," and opportunities now wasted, are the living graduates of the Theological gone, not for a week or for a term, but for Seminary. The courses in all depart- a year. Work neglected now must remain ments have been widened but nowhere uncompleted. If studies are slighted at more noticeably than in the departments of times either in the Fall or Spring terms, Modern Languages and of Philosophy. we may hope to compensate for such There exists no vacancy in the College neglect by hard, unrelinquishing applica- Professorships, while in the Seminary tion during this term, but lessons now the Bedell Professorship of New Testa- unprepared and lectures now unnoted will ment instruction and of instruction in ever remain untouched. Let us all face Liturgies and Christian Evidences are the matter fairly and unite to make this a temporarily vacant. The summary of at profitable, as well as an enjoyable term. the LEGIAN. S9 TRIBUTE OF KENYON FACULTY. By the death of General Rutherford The Faculty of Kenyon College desire Burchard Hayes, '42, Kenyon loses her to express their deep sense of the loss most distinguished graduate as well as one which the college has sustained in the death of Gen. Rutherford B. Hayes, L. L. of her most enthusiastic and warmest D., of the class of 1842, and to pay tribute friends. Having been promoted to the to the memory of his pure and noble rank of Major General in the late civil character. The public services of Mr. war, he was, at its close, elected to the Hayes are familiar to every intelligent Congress of the United States, and upon his the expiration of his term of office was citizen of the Nation. His bravery, wise statesmanship, his philanthropy are re-elect- ed to that body. He resigned this known to all his countrymen. We, how- office of t rust to become Governor of Ohio ever, especially rejoice that it was the in '6S, to which otlice he was re-elect- ed in to "69. He was inaugurated the nineteenth privilege of Kenyon have nourished we to him as a tpye President of the United States in '77 and such a son, and point of which colleges while in ollice instituted many govern- the lofty character should aim to produce ; that of the pat- mental reforms, I lie tendency of which riotic, cultured, christian gentleman. As Mas toward the more perfect reconstruc- such Kenyon will cherish his memory as tion of t lie Southern States. He had one of her most precious possessions. received the degree of L. L. D. from his is ordered that this memorial be alma mater, from Harvard, Yale, and It entered upon the records of the Faculty, Johns Hopkins. Since retiring from poli- be published in the Kexyox Col- tics and the law, he has interested him- that it and a copy be sent to the self in educational affairs and has allied legian that family of the deceased. himself with the interests ot many such Russell S. Devol, institutions, being President of the Slater ClIAKLES F. BRUSIE, Educational Fund, a Trustee of the Pea-bod- y William F. Pierce. Educational Fund, President of the Committee of the Faculty. National Pension Reform Association, President of the National Conference of BULWER LYTTON.