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Digital Kenyon: Research, Scholarship, and Creative Exchange The Kenyon Collegian College Archives 11-2-1962 Kenyon Collegian - November 16, 1962 Follow this and additional works at: https://digital.kenyon.edu/collegian Recommended Citation "Kenyon Collegian - November 16, 1962" (1962). The Kenyon Collegian. 2175. https://digital.kenyon.edu/collegian/2175 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]. KENYON COLLEGIA A Journal of Student Opinion Vol. LXXXIX Gambier, Ohio. November 2, 1962 No. 3 'A Pair of Old . Hew Critic' Tramps' . IFC Lends Support Will Review COUNCIL SURVEY PUSHES Own Poetry John Crowe Ransom, professor WOMEN'S HOURS CHANGE emeritus of English at Kcnyon by Fred Farrar Excerpts and former editor of the Kenyon Tom Price, chairman of the from the replies: Review, will read and comment Planning Committee of the Stu- Ohio State: "A change in your on his poems at 4 p.m. Sunday. dent Council, jolted the Council rules would not have any effect The reading, another in the Ken- out of its customary lethargy last on our regulations." yon Symposium series, is being Monday evening by presenting Ohio Wesleyan: "The activities held in Philo Hall instead of the the committee's proposals for of our women are ruled by per- usual South Hanna Lounge to ac- changing the existing hours for mission slips sent to the parents commodate the larger crowds women visitors in the dormitories of the women each year. Our anticipated. and divisions. attitude would not enter into it." poetry to Ransom believes be Following evaluation of com- Denison: "We have no control, Yini "representational," making life a f-Yrtwn-- ments by Deans of Women at nor do we desire to have control little better or worse than it was. OLD TRAMPS Longtime friends John Crowe Ransom (left) and four Ohio universities, Deans of over the off campus hours of our Because of this view, he was led Robert Frost chat in Cromwell House norlnr. Shown with thpm is Men at 10 men's colleges, and women." of one of television hostess Mrs. Gerald Myers, wife of the Kenyon philosophy 154 to change the ending professor. parents, the Committee made The replies left the committee his poems. A good portion of his the following recommendations: with the impression that Kenyon's lecture will be devoted to ex- 'Women be allowed in the di- regulations were strictly Kenyon's plaining his reasons for doing this. POETS FROST AND RANSOM visions and fraternity lounges business, and that an extension A former Rhodes Scholar, Ran- until 11:00 p.m. on Sunday of women's hours would not ad- som is a graduate of Vanderbilt TALK SHOP FOR CAMERAS through Thursday nights, though versely effect the reputation of University. He taught at Vand- not in students' rooms past 9 p.m. Kenyon "I wrote up and down Middle Path this morning," quipped Rob- at least in the offices 1914-193- 7 at Ken- Women be allowed in the stu- erbilt from and book-wieldin- of those four of ert Frost after having been repeatedly accosted by g Deans Women. 1936-195- 8. He is noted dent rooms and division and yon from autograph hunters when he took a late morning constitutional PRICE SAID that the survey of fraternity lounges 12:00 mid- for being one the founders of around Gambier Saturday. until of men's colleges was conducted night on Friday nights. the new criticism. IN TOWN for Sunday's library dedication, the poet was inter- principally "with the colleges by many to be one Women be allowed in the stu- Considered viewed by the Collegian as he sat in the living room of Cromwell which are the ones we'd like to influential poets and dent rooms and division and of the most house, waiting to tape a brief television discussion with Kenyon's feel we resemble." The colleges Bollin- fraternity lounges until 1 a.m. critics, Ransom holds the John Crowe Ransom. answering Price's letter were ger Prize for poetry and has re- TO BE SURE, certain aspects Sunday (Sat. night), and follow- Amherst, Bowdoin, Dartmouth, Although Frost's visit to Gam- ceived the Russell Louis Memor- of the academic life annoy Frost ing any and all college functions. Haverford, Hobart, Triniy, Wa- bier failed to produce any major ial Fund Prize from the National like the diligent taking of In the event that there will be bash, Washington and Lee, Wes- literary statement, the old man institute of Arts and Letters. He notes by students. "There's so a dance on a weekend, all frater- leyan and Williams. was full of quips, jokes, and has published several volumes of much of that damned stuff," he nity sponsored activities end one The hours for entertaing wo- anecdotes. poetry and verse including a re- snorted. "I don't allow that." hour after the dance starts, but men guests at these colleges cent anthology of Thomas Hardy, "I've been a teacher without Introduced to Mrs. Gerald women be allowed in the student ranged from Wabash's "women and is currently interested in the teaching," Frost said in defining Myers, hostess of the television rooms and dormitory lounges un- are expected out of rooms and works of French poet Paul Valery. his role as Simpson Professor of program, Frost sighed, "Oh dear, til the regular time. lounges on all occasions by dark," College. y English at Amherst "I how I love intelligence ... in a IN PREPARING proposals the to Haverford's Sunday-Thursda- sit around with the boys." As man and woman." Planning Committee sent ques- 2 a.m. deadline, and Friday and COUNCIL SEEKS occupant of the Simpson Chair As the filming was about to tionnaires to Deans of Women at Saturday 3 a.m. limit. J Frost delivers two open lectures begin, Frost urged Ransom to sit 20 Ohio colleges and universities. "However, chuckled Price, "no a year. (Cont. on page 8, col. I) Four replied: Ohio State, Ohio liquor is allowed on the Haver- QUIZ KIDS FOR Wesleyan, Oberlin and Denison ford campus." Council members Students Keep Out! The questionnaire asked the were heard to snort "who needs VIDEO TOURNEY Deans whether later women's it?" hours at Kenyon would have any The comments from the Ken- Kenyon College has accepted an Dedicates 'Sanctuary' effect on whether their women yon parents were more complex. invitation to participate in the Frost would be allowed to visit They were asked three questions: "General Electric College Bowl" I (Cont. on page 8. col. 4) on March 17 of next year. To Audience of Foreigners Joint approval by the faculty A solid hour before the sched- council and student council last uled beginning of the dedication volume clutched in a grizzled Huxley Found Eloquent; Monday made it certain that, bar- program for the Gordon Keith hand. "We have come here," he ring the unforeseen, the college Chalmers Memorial Library on began in tenorous voice, "to dedi- will field a four-memb- er team to Will, Love Sunday, October 28th, a trickle cate this library for the preser- Seeks Good match wits with students of an of people (largely outsiders) vation of knowledge, and for a undesignated college on the CBS which soon developed into a friend." SEES HIS television program. WRITER quiz steady stream began flowing "This library," he went on, "is SUCCESS Quiz Bowl IN the through the portals of Rosse Hall. a sanctuary and stronghold of the POIGNANT SPEECH depends on ability to the team's "Guests" of the college were humanities." Speaking without instantaneously answer specific INTENDED' ushered to their reserved seats notes, Frost expressed the idea 'WELL questions. According to the pro to avail him- first, leaving room for only a that one is best able by Kluge ducers of show, most of the any Fred the handful of students. Approxi- self of a library's facilities, or subjects are covered in a liberal Technically, physically, it was mately 200 left over students were opportunities of college, when he arts undergraduate curriculum, m yet Huxley. The nar- shown into the Rosse cellar, is "young enough to be told, the same Aldous eluding ancient and modern to where they heard the lecture via old enough to want do the row hawk-lik- e face, the long European history, American his telling." loud speaker. greying, but not white hair, bushy tory, American, English and Eur- His ash white hair drooping opean philosophy. THE THRONGS clamored eyebrows, and the tall angular literature, to see the noted over a corner of his wrinkled way science, mathematics, economics, around Rosse body. Impressive the forehead, Frost exclaimed that a to im- current affairs, classical and popu- American poet and former Aldous Huxley ought be Frost, library is like a "heap of debris you see lar music, mythology the friend of Chalmers, Robert pressive. But did the art, and dedi- there is all sorts of stuff in it. Bible. who had consented to help eyes were you close enough to $1,200,000 li- To choose from this debris, one spots A comprising cate Kenyon's new see the dulling grey in the committee three needs fine teachers for advice." age student council members, a fac brary. center? A paradox that strains of Perhaps the highpoint of Frost's should hit him ulty member and senior Barry To the wavering 77 years of it from Julius talk came at the recitation of his whose glittering Mankowitz will be appointed to Handel's "March there the man efficiently assassinated poetry.