From the Archives Archives — The Kenyon Collegian

Section: Features

Frederick Douglass’ Mount Vernon visit caused controversy

On February 9, 1877, the Democratic Banner, Mount Vernon’s “leading publication” according to their header, announced that Frederick Douglass — an abolitionist, writer… Read More

by Dante Kanter
May 2, 2019
Section: Features

‘Wild Men’: the circus performers buried in Mount Vernon

On March 17, 1905, hundreds attended the funeral of Hiram Davis, famed circus performer, at Mound View Cemetery in Mount Vernon. A train had… Read More

by Dante Kanter
April 18, 2019
Section: Features

A thorough look at Kenyon’s historic and forbidden towers

From a vista south of the Brown Family Environmental (BFEC), the spire of Old Kenyon Residence Hall rises just above the trees that… Read More

by Cameron Austin
November 8, 2018
Section: Features

Kenyon linked to creation of Advanced Placement program

Around 1951, Kenyon President Gordon Keith Chalmers proposed several initiatives to shorten the timeline for obtaining a bachelor’s degree. One would have called… Read More

by Cameron Austin
March 1, 2018
Section: Features

Put on ice: the history of Kenyon’s extinct ice hockey team

Though central Ohio lays claim to its own professional hockey team, the Columbus Blue Jackets, Kenyon College has limited winter sports opportunities. This… Read More

by Zack Eydenberg and Cameron Austin
February 1, 2018
Section: Features

Car chases to chili: Market once the site of historic robbery

Today, you will find the new Village Market standing where the original Peoples Bank of Gambier once stood, but you’d never guess from… Read More

by Justin Sun
November 2, 2017
Section: Features

The unexpected history behind Kenyon’s Gates of Hell

The origin of the name “The Gates of Hell” is as anticlimactic as it is amusing. Officially, the two pillars on Middle Path… Read More

by Justin Sun
September 28, 2017
Section: Features

Saturday’s lockdown was not the first in the College’s history

On Saturday night Campus Safety initiated a lockdown when a man, thought to be armed, threatened to harm himself in the area near… Read More

by Grant Miner
April 20, 2017
Section: Features

Kenyon archivist explains how to compile College history

There are only two guidelines for what goes into Kenyon’s Greenslade Special Collections and Archives: The item must either pertain to the College,… Read More

by Grant Miner
February 2, 2017
Section: Features

Seeing double: in Ohio and Minnesota, a tale of two Kenyons

Over 700 miles away in Southeastern Minnesota, a woman named Michelle Otte wakes up every morning and goes to work at the Kenyon Public… Read More

by Amy Schatz
October 13, 2016