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THE ENTRANCE TO THE COLLEGE PARK 
 
 Stone pillars, erected in 1842 by President Douglass, mark the gateway 
 from the village into the College Park of ninety acres. The Middle Path, 
 shown in the picture, is a broad gravel walk, shaded by maples, which 
 stretches from Old Kenyon more than two-thirds of a mile north to Bexley 
 Hall. The view looks into the Park and toward Old Kenyon, a quarter of a 
 mile away. On the left a corner of the College Chapel is seen. 
 
OLD KENYON 
 
 The cornerstone of Old Kenyon, the first permanent College building, 
 was laid by Bishop Chase, June 9, 1827. The architecture was studied from 
 Oxford, which the founder had visited in 1824, and the style is pure col- 
 legiate Gothic. The building was originally planned to form one side of a 
 great college quadrangle. No other building of the period west of the Ohio 
 river can rival Old Kenyon for noble proportions, dignified lines and general 
 architectural excellence. The stone walls are solid masonry, four feet and 
 a half thick at the basement story. To build Old Kenyon the pioneer Founder 
 opened a quarry in the College hill and built a lumber mill close by on the 
 Kokosing river. 
 
OLD KENYON 
 
 This view of Old Kenyon is taken from a point to the northwest, close 
 by the site of Hanna Hall. In 1906 the venerable building was entirely re- 
 built on the interior at a cost of $80,000. The walls were thoroughly repaired 
 and strengthened and the woodwork and interior finish is entirely new. All 
 of the halls and rooms are finished in quartered oak, and broad interior 
 window seats form an attractive feature. The plumbing and heating systems 
 are of the best and most modern type. For strength, comfort and beauty, 
 Old Kenyon is unexcelled among college dormitories. 
 
THE RESTORED "BULL'S EYE" ROOM 
 
 A large part of the money for restoring the two wings of Old Kenyon in 
 1906 was provided by the Alumni of the Alpha Delta Phi and Delta Kappa 
 Epsilon chapters who have for many years occupied these sections of the 
 dormitory. In each wing the fourth or attic floor is finished as a general 
 parlor or common room. The wainscot, exposed beams and window seats 
 are of dark Flemish oak, bookcases and cupboards being built in at each 
 comer. The floor is of hard wood and can be used for dancing. A massive 
 deep brick fireplace with broad tile hearth is a most attractive feature. The 
 room shown in the cut is in the west wing and according to a well attested 
 college tradition its first occupant in 1833 was Edward M. Stanton. The cor- 
 responding room in the east wing contains a brass tablet stating that Ruther- 
 ford B. Hayes spent there the two concluding years of his college course 
 1840-42. 
 
THE THEODORE STERLING ROOM 
 
 Named in honor of the senior member and dean of the College Faculty, 
 this attractive room is open to all of the students in College as a general parlor 
 or common room. Formerly the library of the Philomathesian Literary Society, 
 it is conveniently situated in the middle division of Old Kenyon. Student 
 committees frequently meet here, among others the dormitory committee 
 which enforces discipline in college buildings and on college grounds. Under 
 this system of student self-government, seven seniors elected by the student 
 body discharge this responsibility effectively. Meetings of the dormitory 
 committee are held every two weeks, and once each month they meet with 
 the President of the College. 
 
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HANNA HALL 
 
 This building, completed in the autumn of 1903, was erected by the late 
 Senator Hanna, at a cost of $65,000. It provides rooms for forty-five stu- 
 dents, and in interior finish and appointments ranks with the finest college 
 dormitories in the country. The architect is C. F. Schweinfurth of Cleveland. 
 
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HANNA HALL-THE MAIN ENTRANCE 
 
 A tablet on the right wall of the vestibule bears the following inscription : 
 "This building is erected in honor of his wife, C. Augusta Hanna, by the 
 Honorable Marcus A. Hanna of Ohio, A. D. 1902." 
 
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A STUDENTS' PARLOR IN HANNA HALL 
 
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THE COLLEGE DORMITORIES 
 FROM ASCENSION HALL 
 
 The honor system of examinations is a conspicuous feature of student life 
 at Kenyon. The system has been in successful operation for nearly ten years, 
 and among colleges West of the Alleghenies Kenyon is the first to inaugurate 
 it. An elected committee of s§ven men have entire charge of examinations 
 and make all regulations regarding them. The result has proved admirable 
 and dishonesty in examinations is quite unknown. 
 
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THE MIDDLE PATH 
 
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ASCENSION HALL 
 
 This building was erected in 1859 by gifts from the Church of the Ascen- 
 sion, New York. Built in pure Tudor style, its finely proportioned lines and 
 battlemented towers command special admiration. It contains most of the 
 college lecture rooms together with scientific laboratories, business offices and 
 halls of the Philomathesian and Nu Pi Kappa literary societies. In the base- 
 ment a gas engine, dynamo and storage battery have been placed for experi- 
 mental work in physics while on top of the tower is mounted an Alvan Clark 
 telescope. 
 
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ASCENSION HALL 
 
 The view is taken from the northeast and shows to the right one end of 
 the Hanna Hall dormitory. 
 
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THE ALUMNI LIBRARY 
 
 Hubbard Hall, the former library building, burned on January 1, 1910. 
 The fire-proof Stephens Stack Room preserved all of the books, but a new 
 library building for administration and reading rooms will be at once con- 
 structed. The architect of the new building, the elevation of which is printed 
 on the opposite page, is Charles F. Schweinfurth of Cleveland. The Alumni 
 Library will be fire-proof and will contain separate reading rooms for periodi- 
 cals and for serious study, two seminar rooms for the use of advanced classes 
 besides cataloguing and store rooms for the librarian. The main reading 
 room will in finish resemble an English college hall. Large Cathedral glass 
 windows are placed at either end and the roof of dark oak has trusses and 
 panels of Tudor open timber style. For beauty and convenience the new 
 building will be unexcelled among college libraries. The cost will be about 
 $45,000. 
 
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STEPHENS STACK ROOM 
 
 This fire-proof store house for books is the gift of the late James B. 
 Stephens, Kenyon, 1859, of Trenton, New Jersey. It was built in 1903 and 
 has a capacity of about 50,000 volumes. To the right appears the former 
 library, Hubbard Hall, which was burned on January 1, 1910. 
 
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THE COLLEGE CHAPEL |i, 
 
 This beautiful church in the Early English style was erected in 1869 by 
 Bfshop and Mrs. Bedell. As the Church of the Holy Spirit all of the details 
 of interior frescoes, carving and decoration symbolize the name. The tower 
 contains a set of nine bells together with a mechanism which strikes the 
 Westminster chime at the quarter hours. 
 
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THE COLLEGE CHAPEL— THE TOWER ENTRANCE 
 
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THE PRAYER GROSS 
 
 This monument situated between Old Kenyon and Hanna Hall marks 
 the spot on which Bishop Philander Chase held the first religious service on 
 the college domain. It was erected by the Class of 1902, Bexley Hall, and 
 bears the following inscriptions: 
 
 "Our fathers called upon Thee and were holpen." 
 
 "On this spot the prayers of Holy Church were said for the first time 
 upon Gambler Hill the third Sunday after Trinity, A. D. 1826." 
 
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ROSSE HALL 
 
 Bishop Chase laid the foundations of this building in 1831. Burned in 
 May, 1897, it was rebuilt along the same exterior lines, and is now used as a 
 gymnasium and general assembly hall. In the basement are shower baths, 
 steel lockers and a large billiard room. 
 
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INTERIOR OF ROSSE HALL 
 
 This picture was taken on the occasion of Mr. Andrew Carnegie's visit to 
 Gambier April 26, 1906. The subject of Mr. Carnegie's address was the life 
 and work of Edwin M. Stanton, Kenyon '35. The hall was elaborately dec- 
 orated and a distinguished audience attended, including several members of 
 the Stanton family. 
 
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THE BEXLEY PARK 
 
 This view shows the north end of the Middle Path. The domain imme- 
 diately about Bexley Hall contains over twenty acres with many forest trees. 
 
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BEXLEY HALL 
 
 Bexley Hall, a copy of the Elizabethan country house of Lord Bexley, is 
 the home of the Theological Seminary. The working model was sent from 
 England and the building has been called the finest specimen of pure Eliz- 
 abethan architecture in America. It contains suites of rooms for the theo- 
 logical students, lecture rooms, and a small chapel. The building dates from 
 1839. 
 
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THE BEXLEY DOOR 
 
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GOLBURN HALL 
 
 The theological library building is the gift of Mrs. L. C. Colburn, of 
 Toledo, in memory of her husband and his father, and was finished in the 
 autumn of 1904. It is situated immediately in the rear of Bexley Hall with 
 which it is connected by a handsome Tudor Arch. 
 
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GOLBURN HALL -THE INTERIOR 
 
 The theological library contains many rare and curious volumes, some of 
 which have no duplicates on this side of the Atlantic. The first books were 
 given to Bishop Chase in 1824 by members of the Oxford and Cambridge 
 colleges. 
 
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KOKOSING" 
 
 "Kokosing," the home of Bishop and Mrs. Bedell, was bequeathed by 
 them to Kenyon College. It stands in a park of considerable extent and is 
 now leased by the Bishop of Ohio. 
 
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HARGOURT PLAGE SGHOOL 
 
 This excellent school for girls was established as a private institution in 
 1887. The buildings were purchased by Kenyon College in 1906, and have 
 since been leased to Miss Merwin. Courses preparatory to the leading col- 
 leges for women are offered and also a two years academic course for high) 
 school graduates. The instruction is thorough and the school is efficiently 
 administered. The atmosphere of the school is delightfully homelike. 
 
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