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Li6KRr "Y KENYON COLLEG A Journal of Student Opinion LXXV Vol. Gambier, Ohio September 19, 1958 No. 1 fonyon 's Campus Installation Of Kenyon's Revamped During Rummer Months 17th President Set For Despite some eight conferences Saturday, October 4 the campus and consistently jn f - On cooperative weather, Emerson Saturday, October 4, F. Edward Lund will be inaugurated Bovd and his maintenance crews Degrees To Be Given as Kenyon's seventeenth presi- -- thieved notable successes in their revamp Col- J At dent. An academic procession to Kenyon Inauguration project will While students and faculty enter the Church of the Holy lie. Six honorary degrees will be Spirit at ten o'clock for Morning relaxed during the summer vacati- awarded during the inauguration Prayer which the procession on, crews worked diligently to after ceremonies according to informa- will move to the of Mather nize front n-.oder- and beautify campus tion received from President F. Hall for the ceremony of installa- facilities. Work was done, Boyd Edward Lund. tion. If the weather does not commented, primarily for the Bishop Blcmchard permit an outdoor ceremony, the students, and not the faculty. The Rt. Rev. Roger W. Blanch-ar- d, installation will take place in Rewiring In Peirce Bishop Coadjutor of the Rosse Hall. "Routine jobs" included the re Diocese of Southern Ohio, will be The Rt. Rev. Nelson M. Bur- painting of all rooms in Lewis the recipient of one of the de- roughs, Bishop of Ohio and presi- and Norton Halls and Old Keny- grees. Bishop Blanchard, elected dent of the College's Board of on. Class rooms in Ascension last year to succeed the Rt. Rev. Trustees, will conduct the in- Hall were repainted according to Henry W. Hobson who is sche- stallation ceremony after which a special color scheme designed v duled for retirement this year, is President Lund will deliver his by a color consultant. A dangero- .. the past Dean of the Episcopal inaugural address. Six honorary us fire hazard was eliminated in cathedral in Jacksonville, Florida. degrees will be conferred during Ascension when oil was drawn He is a graduate of Boston Uni- the installation ceremonies. out of the floor to be replaced by versity and Episcopal Theological Students Welcome regular floor finish. The oil, Seminary, and for sometime he According to Denham Sutcliffe, deeply embedded in the flooring, was the Executive Secretary of chairman of the Committee on the was drawn out by use of chemic- the Division of College Work for Inauguration, all undergraduates als, a process which took an the National Council of the will be welcomed at the outdoor average of eighteen days per Protestant Episcopal Church. ceremony. If the ceremony must room to complete. Most of the Bishop Blanchard will become a be held indoors there will not be offices in Ascension were rep- member of the College's Board of enough room for all to attend. ainted. Rewiring was done in Trustees upon Bishop Hobson's With this possibility in mind the Peirce Hall while new offices President F. Edward Lund retirement. committee has sent tickets of ad- were created in the ROTC buildi- Carl J. Djerassi mission to Rosse Hall to selected ng and Mather Hall. A new off- Carl J. Djerassi, noted Ameri- representatives of the undergrad- uate body, ice was also built in the library A Letter From The President can chemist and Kenyon gradu- presidents of the while much of the building got a ate of 1942, will also receive an Council and Assembly, heads of Divisions, Editors of Col- coat of new paint. Of special PRESIDENTS OFFICE honorary degree. Mr. Djerassi the the on. pride for the maintenance departm- KENYON COLLEGE was recently given the Alpha Chi legian and so ent is the work done in the GAMBIER. OHIO Sigma Award by the American Picnic Luncheon The ceremony water plant. For the first time September 12, 1958 Chemical Society. His most out- inaugural will be followed by a picnic luncheon on Kenyon as well as the village of The Students of Kenyon College standing contribution in science Gambier will have soft water. has been in the field of steriod the lawn of Peirce Hall. Tickets Gambier, Ohio synthesis. for the luncheon may be obtained Hanna Gets New Plumbing Gentlemen: His discovery that cortisone from the Dean of Student's office Residents of Hanna Leona- and Welcome! May obtained from certain during the hours of 2:00 to 4:00 rd will the sharp, fall air and the pleasant vistas could be have already noticed p. m. from September 22-2- 6. One plant material has revolution-alize- d vast improvements in their living of Gambier remind you that a certain grace is indispensable the of that ticket will be given without quarters. A to May of old manufacture completely modern learning. the meeting friends and new, suggest (Cont. on Page 4, Col. 4) charge; additional ones will be (Cont. on Page 4, Col. 1) that ties now formed will endure through life. But may you sold for one dollar. never forget also amid your life in the divisions, along the Ceremonies Simple 14 New Lecture Series Join Faculty Middle Path, and even in the Commons and at football Approximately 200 visitors are To Start Oct. 20 expected in Gambier for the in- Irving d- Feldman, an up-an- games that we must put first things first: the one absolute On October 20, David Riesman, auguration including the presi- coming Fulbright in mid-weste- lecturer standard and yardstick by which we can measure ourselves author of such noted works as dents of many rn col- English, is one of the 14 new and Kenyon College is by the excellence of the education The Lonely Crowd, Individualism leges and universities. By request appointments to the Kenyon we receive. In a very real sense, everything else is subordin- Reconsidered, and Faces in the of President Lund the ceremonies faculty disclosed by President Crowd, will deliver the first lec- by simplicity. Due i-u- will be marked nd ate, and all the rest is extra. And in this great enterprise last week. Mr. Feldman ture in the Inaugural Lecture to this request funds set aside for spent last year as a Fulbright we all, students, faculty and staff, joined together. There series. The tentative title that Mr. the inauguration will be used for !turer at the University of can be no "I" and "thou." If Kenyon is to fulfill her true Riesman has chosen is "The a series of lectures to be known Lyon in France. mission, it must be "we." Search for Challenge." Of the as the Inaugural Lectures. W.T. Mr. Feldman has published Welcome to your Kenyon. lecture and what he hopes to dis- Poetry in cuss, he writes, "I would like to Lund; such leading American F. Edward Lund Doctor magazines as the New Yorker, deal in it with the problems of 17th Or 18th? fcd the Atlantic Monthly, and finding stimulation both in the Those faculty members charged 'ill replace Bogar-du- s educational and in other spheres Mr. Edgar C. with organizing the inauguration who died his home here of life in a society of abundance." in Slater Food Service of President F. Edward Lund re- kst year as October 21, Mr. the result of a freak On Tuesday, cently found themselves facing a "cident. the college Mr. Feldman has taught Riesman will address puzzling question. Exactly what st the Introduced In Commons will be available University of Puerto Rico assembly. He president is Dr. Lund seven- in-ovati- is ons in Gambier. an alumnus of New York Among the most discussed for discussion while teenth or eighteenth? The late c"y College, present Mr. Riesman is Pro- and of Columbia at Kenyon this fall, is CLASS OF '62 SAID TO BE At President Gordon Keith Chal- L'niversity. Sociology at Univer- the change in food management fessor of the to call himself according to mers chose the e English department has at Peirce Hall. The title of the 'PROMISING ACADEMICALLY' sity of Chicago, and sixteenth president of Kenyon 'Wed two Mr. new organization is Slater Food Denham Sutcliffe, chairman of more men besides 182 College. It would seem that Ken-vo- n This fall new faces appeared on Lectureships, Wdman. They are, James F. Service Management, and the Committee President Lund is the seventeen- on the Kenyon campus. For 171 expressed a particular in- le, a Kenyon graduate in the is another link in the chain he has th. However, Dean Frank E. ! 11 in- - of the new faces September in knowing Kenyon better. of 1953, a doctor-it- e of 325 schools, hospitals, and terest Bailey Acting for who holds was the first encounter with col- was President degree from Uni-Vers't- y; dustries which they service. Tillich Is Another a year. Would this not make Princeton lege life; 6 of these men are "old and Howard, The Slater service was founded Another outstanding lecturer in Bailey Kenyon's seventeen- Daniel F.