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Kenyon Collegian College Archives Digital Kenyon: Research, Scholarship, and Creative Exchange The Kenyon Collegian College Archives 10-28-1960 Kenyon Collegian - October 28, 1960 Follow this and additional works at: https://digital.kenyon.edu/collegian Recommended Citation "Kenyon Collegian - October 28, 1960" (1960). The Kenyon Collegian. 2147. https://digital.kenyon.edu/collegian/2147 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]. Homecoming Issue KENYON COLLE N A Journal of Student Opinio;' VoL LXXXVII Gambier, Ohio - October 28. 1960 No.3 HOMECOMING SCHEDULE Dance Tomorrow Night, FRIDAY, OCTOBER28 COLLEGE SEATS THORP 5:30 p.m. MemoricdService for Rob- ert B. Brown 'li-Colieqe Chapei SATURDAY,OCTOBER29 Kenyon Faces Oberlin 9:00 e.m. Executive Committee of AS DEAN OF BEXLEY Aiumni Council Meetinq - Reeves Room 10:00 e.m. Meeting of the Alumni Bishop Lichtenberger, of Episcopal Church, Presides; Faculty Will Judge Fraternity Homecoming Displays; Council and Clan Agents - Reeves Room of Library Four Honorary Degrees Given at Special Convocation Freshmen Tackle Uppergrads at Mid-.doy Cane Rush 10:30 e.m. Soc:cer: Kenyon VII. Ohio University The Kenyon Alumni Association has planned an extensive pro- 2:00 p.m. Footbcill: Kenyon V.I. Ob- This morning the homecoming festivities at Kenyon were high- erlin lighted by the installation of Almus M. Thorp as the sixth dean in gram for this year's Homecoming celebration for tomorrow. S~turday. 4:00 p.m.- October 29. The day's activities start early for the alumni, for at 11:00 p.m. Division Open House this century of Bexley Hall, the award of four honorary degrees Alumni welcome ten o'clock a meeting of the Alumni Council and Class Agents is at a special Honors Convocation, and the awaited visit to this campus I~;~~~:::Alumni-Undergraduaaes of the Right Reverend Arthur Lichtenberger the Presiding Bishop scheduled in the Reeves Room of the Alumni Library. Dance-Peirce Hall (coat & tie) However, the scene of action of the Protestant Episcopal Church. soon shifts to the soccer field, The weekend was begun by the where the Kenyon Lords will play Sutcliffe Speaks installation ceremony, held in the Ohio University. After the game Church of the Holy Spirit at ten there is time for a quick break At Bedell Lecture o'clock on Friday. Next came the for lunch and then back again at "We end in gloom." Such was convocation in Rosse Hall, at two o'clock to the athletic fields. the conclusion of Dr. Denham 11:30, followed by a luncheon in This time the action moves to the Sutcliffe, the James H. Dempsey Peirce Hall at 1:15. Benson Bowl where the Lords Professor of English Literature The new dean of Bexley Tall tangle with Oberlin. at Kenyon College, in the Bedell holds an A.B. from Bates College, Kenyon, fielding one of its Lecture delivered at Kenyon last and a B.D. from the Episcopal finest teams in recent years, meets night. Theological School. He was or- dained to the priesthood in 1938, a very strong Oberlin squad. In his lecture, "Christian and began his ministry as an as- Also at the bowl the Chase Themes in American Literature," sistant in Columbus' Trinity Society Homecoming Cup will be Dr. Sutcliffe considered three Church. Two years later he be- presented. This is an annual a- principal areas. He first dealt came rector of St. Steven's ward given to the division show- with that fiction which purports Church in Columbus, where he ing the most originality in decor- to be Christian, and concluded stayed for 19 years. Since coming ating its division for Homecoming. that there was little of value here to Bexley last September Dean A highlight of the action at as literature. Attempts at Christ- Thorp has supervised a revamped the football field will, be the ian symbolism, particularly the curriculum, rennovation of the Freshman-Sophomore Cane Rush. Charles Halleck Christ figure, was the second area Robert Leverinq physical plant. additions to the The freshmen, with the sting of "Truman is our secret weapon" considered, and this also proved "We don't require a pauper'. oath" faculty, and planning for a new the paddling at the pajama parade to be disappointing. still fresh in their minds, will be library, chapel, and enlargement Minority Leader Lastly, Professor Sutcliffe dis- eager to even the score with the Democrat Blasts of housing facilities for married cussed three American authors: sophomores. The planned pro- Talks at Kenyon students. Hawthorne, Melville, and Twain. Dwight's Regime gram for the afternoon ends and by Ed McCampbell Bishop Lichtenberger, a Ken- He pointed out that these writers by Walter Nielsen yon graduate and member of Sig- the evening program begins with "In keeping with the Kenyon do exhibit a sense of spiritual ma Pi fraternity addressed the each division throwing open its tradition of presenting both sides U. S. Representative from the struggle and real religious feeling, Honors Convocation on "The doors to all who wish to attend of a story." the college played host, 17th District of Ohio, Robert W. but not in any sense that could Aims of a Theological Education." parties. on Tuesday, October 18, to Mr. Levering, stated at the beginning be called Christian. Thus he ar- In his speech, Bishop Lichten- The culmination of the Home- Charles Halleck, Republican min- of the assembly speech on Tues- rived at his pessimistic conclusion. berger stressed the problems coming Day festivities is the ority leader in the United States day, October 18, that his primary The Bedell Lectureship, en- purpose that day would be to facing church seminaries. He con- Alumni-Undergraduate Dance in House of Representatives. dowed by a fund establlshed by stimulate our thinking about cluded that "A seminary where Peirce Hall from nine p.m. to one The purpose of Mr. Halleck's Bishop and Mrs. Bedell, is spon- solving national and world prob- theological education does take a.m. The music is to be supplied speech was to endorse the Repub- by Ray Nelson and his Quintet. sored biennialy by Bexley Hall, lems. He said that the answers place will send into the ministry lican candidate for congressman the Protestant Episcopal Church to the most pressing problems of men who are alive to God and The band consists of a trumpet, a from this district, Mr. John Ash- Seminary. The lectures deal with the work of God in history, men saxophone, and a rhythm section. brook. our day come from the minds of Ray and his group are from the "Evidences of Natural and college graduates, and that we who love people and want to be Mr. Halleck also spoke to an Zanesville and are relative new- Revealed Religion, or the Relation students would soon have to solve identified with them in their audience of an estimated seventy- of Science to Religion." these problems. He also stated situations, men who will continue comers to the Kenyon campus. five to one-hundred people, on (Cont. on Page 4, Col. 1) that the most important part of always to be learners." the virtues of the Republican the campaign is to discuss the Four honorary degrees were FACULTY EVALUATES party and in particular its candi- issues so that the people will be awarded by the college at the con- dates, Richard M. Nixon and NIXON AND KENNEDY able to vote in the best interests vocation. The recipients were: Henry C. Lodge, for the offices of of the country. Mrs. Roberta Teale Swartz "The Presidential candidates? president and vice-president re- Chalmers, widow of Kenyon Col- I think that both look as good- spectively. However, Dem. Levering, as is lege's former president, Gordon or as bad-as each other. The The colorful speaker was a Phi natural among politicians, instead Keith Chalmers. Now an associ- campaign development has hidden Beta Kappa graduate of Indiana tried to show why the Democratic ate professor of English at Queens the real issues, though." - Pro- University where he was also a approach to different issues was College in Charlotte, North Caro- fessor Raymond English. This member of Beta Theta Pi. superior to the Republican one. lina, she has previously served on seems to be the general opinion "The one overriding issue in He blamed the Republican tight the stall's of Wellesley College, of a cross section of the faculty this campaign is. war and peace. money policy for a lack of the Rockford College, and Mount polled recently. The question is, which side is best country's economic expansion, Holyoke College. Mr. Haywood agrees, says that suited to keep us out of war? and warned that Russia was The Reverend Clement William "the debates were pointless, sim- We believe that it's our side," he rapidly developing economically. Welsh, formerly on the staffs of ply reiteration of past statements. emphasized. It is of little importance now, he both Kenyon College and Bexley I wouldn't favor either, and I said, whether we are on a par One interesting comment made Hall. Now editor of the Episcopal shan't make up my mind for a (Cont. on Paqe 4, Col. 1) during the speech was that, Church's Forward Movement while yet." Dr. Sutcliffe, of the "Harry Truman is our secret Publications, Reverend Welsh English department, says "it's weapon," referring to the former Now Lt. Colonel Georqes ••• Kenyon and Western was, between 1942-1957, a pro- hard for me to get enthusiastic.
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