Kenyon College

File:Chase Philander-Bishop Episcopal Church USA.jpg (1775–1852) was the founder and first president of Bexley Hall and Kenyon College, and later became Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church]]

After becoming the first Episcopal Bishop of Ohio in 1818, Philander Chase found a severe lack of trained clergy on the Ohio frontier. He sailed to England and solicited donations from George Kenyon, Lord Gambier, and the writer and philanthropist Hannah More.{{Cite journal |last=Muller |first=James Arthur |date=1945 |title=Philander Chase and the Frontier |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/42969616 |journal=Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church |volume=14 |issue=2 |pages=168–184 |jstor=42969616 |issn=0018-2486}}{{Cite journal |last=Chase |first=Virginius H. |date=1947 |title=Jubilee College and Its Founder |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40188260 |journal=Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society |volume=40 |issue=2 |pages=154–167 |jstor=40188260 |issn=0019-2287 |access-date=September 15, 2023 |archive-date=November 14, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231114040244/https://www.jstor.org/stable/40188260 |url-status=live }} The college was incorporated in December, 1824. Dissatisfied with the original location of the college in Worthington, Chase purchased {{Convert|8000|acres|ha}} of land in Knox County (with the Mount Vernon lawyer Henry Curtis), and reached what he would name Gambier Hill on July 24, 1825.{{cite web|url=http://www2.kenyon.edu/Khistory/chase/biography/thiswilldo.htm|title=Well, this will do! explained|publisher=Kenyon.edu|access-date=28 June 2015}}{{cite web|url=http://www2.kenyon.edu/Khistory/chase/biography/biography.htm|title=A Biography of Philander Chase|publisher=Kenyon.edu|access-date=28 June 2015|archive-date=January 19, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150119054417/http://www2.kenyon.edu/Khistory/chase/biography/biography.htm|url-status=live}}

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Kenyon's English department gained national recognition with the arrival of the poet and critic John Crowe Ransom in 1937 as professor of poetry and first editor of The Kenyon Review, a literary journal. During his 21-year tenure, Ransom published work by writers Allen Tate, Robert Penn Warren, William Empson, Mark Van Doren, Kenneth Burke, and Delmore Schwartz, as well as younger writers Flannery O'Connor, Robert Lowell, and Peter Taylor, among others. It was an influential literary magazine during the 1940s and 1950s.{{cite web|url=https://www.kenyonreview.org/about-kr/history/|title=A Brief History of The Kenyon Review|access-date=20 August 2018|archive-date=March 22, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180322020314/https://www.kenyonreview.org/about-kr/history/|url-status=live}}

The Kenyon Review hosts a two-week summer writing workshop on campus for high-school students. The Review sponsors an annual summer writers workshop for adults.{{cite web |url=https://kenyonreview.org/workshops/young-writers/|title=Young Writers Online}} The Kenyon Review also operates the KR Associates Program, allowing Kenyon students to gain experience in literary editing, publishing, and programming. Student associates work with Kenyon Review staff in manuscript evaluation, publicity and marketing, and event planning, among other creative and editorial projects.{{Cite web |title=KR Associates Program |url=https://kenyonreview.org/about-kr/on-campus/kr-associates-program/ |access-date=2024-01-18 |website=The Kenyon Review |language=en-US |archive-date=April 24, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240424130202/https://kenyonreview.org/about-kr/on-campus/kr-associates-program/ |url-status=live }}

Kenyon is a four-year liberal arts college. There are 18 academic departments, 14 interdisciplinary programs, and more than 50 majors, minors, and concentrations.{{Cite web |title=Departments and Majors |url=https://www.kenyon.edu/academics/departments-and-majors/ |access-date=2024-01-17 |website=Kenyon College |language=en}} Kenyon requires students to take classes in each of the four academic divisions: fine arts, humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences. In addition, students must study a foreign language. Its most popular majors, by 2021 graduates, were:{{cite web |url=https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=Kenyon&s=all&id=203535#programs |website=nces.ed.gov |publisher=U.S. Dept of Education |title=Kenyon College |access-date=February 11, 2023 |archive-date=February 11, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230211184930/https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=Kenyon&s=all&id=203535#programs |url-status=live }} English, Economics, Psychology, Political Science, and Biology. The academic year follows a schedule of two four-course semesters, as well as research opportunities in the natural sciences, humanities, social sciences, and fine arts during the summer.{{Cite web |date=2023-02-06 |title=Student Research |url=https://www.kenyon.edu/academics/student-research/ |access-date=2024-01-17 |website=Kenyon College |language=en}}

Kenyon's faculty includes over 200 full-time professors, with 99% of faculty holding a Ph.D. or other terminal degree in their field. All courses are taught by professors, with a student-to-faculty-ratio of 10:1.{{Cite web |title=Our Faculty |url=https://www.kenyon.edu/academics/our-faculty/ |access-date=2024-01-18 |website=Kenyon College |language=en}}

Kenyon claims to offer more than 190 study abroad programs in 50 different countries. There is a program at the University of Exeter{{Cite web |title=Kenyon-Exeter |url=https://www.kenyon.edu/academics/global-learning/center-for-global-engagement/explore-off-campus-study/programs/kenyon-exeter/ |access-date=2024-01-17 |website=Kenyon College |language=en |archive-date=January 17, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240117232159/https://www.kenyon.edu/academics/global-learning/center-for-global-engagement/explore-off-campus-study/programs/kenyon-exeter/ |url-status=live }} and one in Rome.{{Cite web |title=Kenyon-Rome |url=https://www.kenyon.edu/academics/global-learning/center-for-global-engagement/explore-off-campus-study/programs/kenyon-rome/ |access-date=2024-01-18 |website=Kenyon College |language=en |archive-date=January 18, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240118020355/https://www.kenyon.edu/academics/global-learning/center-for-global-engagement/explore-off-campus-study/programs/kenyon-rome/ |url-status=live }}

Kenyon's Center for the Study of American Democracy (CSAD), established in 2007, organizes conferences and seminars with the goal of promoting nonpartisan civic and political discourse. Students can join the Center as Associates, serving as student advisors, organizing events, and encouraging greater participation on campus in the center's programs. CSAD was funded through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.{{Cite web |date=2024-01-22 |title=Center for the Study of American Democracy |url=https://www.kenyon.edu/offices-and-services/center-for-the-study-of-american-democracy/ |access-date=2024-01-18 |website=Kenyon College |language=en |archive-date=January 18, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240118020355/https://www.kenyon.edu/offices-and-services/center-for-the-study-of-american-democracy/ |url-status=live }}

The Gund Gallery, a {{Convert|31,000|sqft}} visual arts center and exhibition space, was opened in 2011. It hosts lectures, public programming, and exhibitions from traveling shows and its permanent collection."About Us." Gund Gallery website. http://www.thegundgallery.org/about-gund/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714160352/http://www.thegundgallery.org/about-gund/ |date=July 14, 2014 }}

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Admission to Kenyon is considered "most selective" by U.S. News & World Report.{{cite web|url=https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/kenyon-college-3065/applying|title=Rankings|website=www.usnews.com|access-date=2019-05-16|archive-date=March 24, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180324224301/https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/kenyon-college-3065/applying|url-status=live}}

For the class of 2022 (enrolling fall 2018), Kenyon received 6,152 applications, accepted 2,204 (35.8%), and enrolled 539.{{cite web |url=http://documents.kenyon.edu/instresearch/CDS/CDS_2018-2019.xlsx |title=Common Data Set 2018–2019 |publisher=Kenyon College |access-date=August 10, 2019 |archive-date=August 10, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190810182346/https://documents.kenyon.edu/instresearch/CDS/CDS_2018-2019.xlsx |url-status=live }} For enrolled first-year students the middle 50% range of SAT scores was 640–730 for critical reading and 640–740 for math, while the ACT composite range was 29–33; the average GPA was 3.94.

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In 2006, Newsweek selected Kenyon College as one of twenty-five "New Ivies" on the basis of admissions statistics as well as interviews with administrators, students, faculty members, and alumni.{{cite magazine |url=http://www.newsweek.com/id/39401 |magazine=Newsweek |access-date=2008-09-07 |date=2006-08-26 |title=America's 25 New Elite 'Ivies' |archive-date=December 14, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071214033858/http://www.newsweek.com/id/39401 |url-status=live }} Additionally, it was also listed in Greene's list of Hidden Ivies in 2000.{{Cite web |title=The Hidden Ivies |url=https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-hidden-ivies-howard-greenematthew-w-greene?variant=32130309685282 |access-date=2025-02-12 |website=HarperCollins |language=en}} Time's 2018–2019 "Best Colleges in America" report ranked Kenyon as the 214th best college in the country.{{citation needed|date=July 2023}}

In the 2025 U.S. News & World Report rankings, Kenyon was tied for the No. 45th liberal arts college in the United States.{{Cite web |title=Kenyon College Rankings |url=https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/kenyon-college-3065/overall-rankings |website=US News and World Report}} In the 2025 Forbes rankings, Kenyon was ranked 33rd among liberal-arts colleges and 140th among 500 colleges and universities in the United States.{{Cite web |title=Kenyon College |url=https://www.forbes.com/colleges/kenyon-college/?list=top-colleges |access-date=2025-02-21 |website=Forbes |language=en}} In 2022, CollegeSimply ranked Kenyon as the 2nd best institution of higher education in Ohio and the 61st best college or university overall.{{Cite web|last=CollegeSimply|title=Kenyon College|url=https://www.collegesimply.com/colleges/ohio/kenyon-college/|access-date=2022-01-26|website=CollegeSimply|language=en|archive-date=January 26, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220126053846/https://www.collegesimply.com/colleges/ohio/kenyon-college/|url-status=live}}

Previously, Kenyon gained national recognition for LGBTQ inclusion.{{Cite web|date=2021-06-13|title=A Continued Commitment|url=https://www.kenyon.edu/news/archive/a-continued-commitment/|website=Kenyon College|language=en}}{{Cite web|date=2022-06-01|title=Campus Pride's 2021 BEST OF THE BEST LGBTQ-Friendly Colleges & Universities|url=https://www.campuspride.org/2021BestoftheBest|website=Campus Pride|language=en|access-date=May 24, 2023|archive-date=August 3, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230803060853/https://www.campuspride.org/2021BestoftheBest|url-status=live}} It was ranked as one of the best campuses for LGBTQ students in the country in both 2020 and 2021.{{Cite web|date=2022-06-01|title=National Recognition: LGBTQ+ Community|url=https://www.kenyon.edu/campus-life/diversity-inclusion/programs-services/lgbtq-community/|website=Kenyon College|language=en|access-date=May 23, 2023|archive-date=May 30, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230530181123/https://www.kenyon.edu/campus-life/diversity-inclusion/programs-services/lgbtq-community/|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|date=2021-09-15|title=2 Ohio colleges named to national "Best of the Best LGBTQ-Friendly" list|url=https://thebuckeyeflame.com/2021/09/15/2-ohio-colleges-named-to-national-best-of-the-best-lgbtq-friendly-list/|website=The Buckeye Flame|language=en|access-date=May 24, 2023|archive-date=June 3, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230603212826/https://thebuckeyeflame.com/2021/09/15/2-ohio-colleges-named-to-national-best-of-the-best-lgbtq-friendly-list/|url-status=live}} It did not retain this ranking in 2022.{{Cite web|date=2022-08-24|title=Campus Pride announces the 2022 Best of the Best Colleges & Universities for LGBTQ+ students|url=https://www.campuspride.org/campus-pride-announces-the-2022-best-of-the-best-colleges-universities-for-lgbtq-students/|website=Campus Pride|language=en|access-date=July 14, 2023|archive-date=July 14, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230714034248/https://www.campuspride.org/campus-pride-announces-the-2022-best-of-the-best-colleges-universities-for-lgbtq-students/|url-status=live}}

Although Kenyon is often ranked favorably, some methods that rank colleges based on their calculated return on investment (ROI) have been critical of Kenyon's value. The 2018 Payscale College ROI Report ranked Kenyon as the 983rd best value college in the country.{{cite web|url=https://www.payscale.com/research/US/School=Kenyon_College/Salary/|title=Payscale 2018 ROI Ranking for Kenyon College|website=www.payscale.com|access-date=November 3, 2018|archive-date=November 3, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181103131209/https://www.payscale.com/research/US/School=Kenyon_College/Salary/|url-status=live}}{{cite web |date=May 16, 2022 |title=Best Colleges in America 2022 Kenyon College Ranking |url=https://money.com/best-colleges/profile/kenyon-college/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220127041443/https://money.com/best-colleges/profile/kenyon-college/ |archive-date=January 27, 2022 |access-date=3 December 2018 |website=Money.com}}

The Kenyon Collegian is the official student newspaper of Kenyon College. Founded in 1856, the paper is staffed entirely by Kenyon College undergraduates and is published on a weekly basis.{{Cite web |date=30 June 2023 |title=About Us |url=https://kenyoncollegian.com/about-us/ |website=The Kenyon Collegian}}

The Kenyon Observer, founded in 1989 by David Horner and Alex Novak, began as a conservative, undergraduate political journal at Kenyon College. After the journal briefly ceased publication after the fall of 2009, it was re-established in the fall of 2011 by students Jonathan Green and Gabriel Rom. The latest iteration of the Observer features contributions from Kenyon students of all political ideologies.{{Cite web |date=2012-03-27 |title=About the Kenyon Observer |url=https://kenyonobserver.wordpress.com/about/about-the-kenyon-observer/ |access-date=2024-12-01 |website=The Kenyon Observer |language=en}}

David Skinner, an Observer alumnus, worked as editor of Humanities. Evan McLaren, a prominent white nationalist and director of the National Policy Institute, was a major contributor to the Observer and its editor-in-chief from 2007 to 2008.{{cite web |last1=Fraise |first1=Claire |last2=Saux |first2=Frances |title=When a white nationalist ran the Observer |url=https://www.thecollegianmagazine.com/when-a-white-nationalist-ran-the-observer/ |access-date=12 January 2021 |website=The Collegian Magazine |publisher=The Kenyon Collegian |ref=1}}

Paths Magazine, founded in 2024, serves the Kenyon College community as a biannual political and social sciences magazine. Paths Magazine was created after The Kenyon Observer became defunct. The organization aims to balance various political ideologies in its publications.

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Kenyon is Ohio's oldest private college and has traditions which date back almost 200 years. All incoming students are expected to take the Matriculation Oath and sign a Matriculation Book. This tradition has existed at Kenyon for over a century.{{Cite web |title=A Signature Tradition |url=https://www.kenyon.edu/news/archive/a-signature-tradition/ |access-date=2023-07-03 |website=Kenyon College |language=en}}

Another tradition is the "First-Year Sing." Each year, entering first-years gather on the steps of Rosse Hall to sing Kenyon songs before they are officially part of the Kenyon community. On the day before Commencement, seniors gather on the steps of Rosse Hall to sing the same songs again.{{Cite web |date=2021-09-03 |title=First-Year Sing and the Universality of Adolescence |url=https://www.kenyon.edu/news/archive/first-year-sing-and-the-universality-of-adolescence/ |access-date=2023-07-03 |website=Kenyon College |language=en |archive-date=July 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230703025236/https://www.kenyon.edu/news/archive/first-year-sing-and-the-universality-of-adolescence/ |url-status=live }}

Kenyon students avoid stepping on the college seal in the entrance hall of Peirce Dining Hall. Tradition holds that if someone steps on the seal, they will not graduate from the college.{{cite news |last=Blaker |first=Bailey |date=2015-08-22 |title=Orientation week: a crash course in Kenyon Culture |url=https://issuu.com/kenyoncollegian/docs/08.22.15 |work=The Kenyon Collegian |access-date=2019-08-24 |archive-date=March 1, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230301025854/https://issuu.com/kenyoncollegian/docs/08.22.15 |url-status=live }}

The Church of the Holy Spirit, one of Kenyon's oldest structures, features a 10-bell set of chimes which ring the traditional Westminster Quarters. The bells, installed in 1879, are rung manually in the belltower each Friday by a campus group known as the Kenyon Pealers.{{Cite web |last=Franjola |first=Sacha |date=2023-02-10 |title=Do "Pealers" ring a bell? Behind the people inside the steeple |url=https://kenyoncollegian.com/features/2023/02/do-pealers-ring-a-bell-behind-the-people-inside-the-steeple/ |access-date=2023-07-03 |website=The Kenyon Collegian |language=en-US}}

Whenever a new president begins their time at the college, candles are lit in every window of Old Kenyon, as a sign of welcome. Additionally, a bell hangs in the steeple of Old Kenyon and is only rung when a new president is inaugurated, as well as having been rung when the United States is no longer engaged in war and when the Kenyon football team wins a home game. Kenyon has had twenty-five presidents (including acting or interim appointments); former president S. Georgia Nugent was Kenyon's first female president, and former president Sean Decatur was Kenyon's first African-American president.{{cite news | url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-18/kenyon-college-picks-sean-decatur-as-its-new-president.html | title=Kenyon College Picks Sean Decatur as its New President | last=Lorin | first=Janet | access-date=18 March 2013 | date=18 March 2013 | work=Bloomberg | archive-date=December 17, 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141217040924/http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-18/kenyon-college-picks-sean-decatur-as-its-new-president.html | url-status=live }} The president's academic regalia is a purple gown with four velvet chevrons on each sleeve signifying the office of the president, a college seal medallion with the names of each Kenyon president on the chain links, and a purple beefeater cap.{{Cite web|url=https://www.kenyon.edu/offices-and-services/office-of-campus-events/traditions/|title=Campus Traditions|access-date=July 16, 2021|archive-date=July 16, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210716175622/https://www.kenyon.edu/offices-and-services/office-of-campus-events/traditions/|url-status=live}} The purple beefeaters cap is also worn by college trustees at ceremonies.

The college's official song is "The Thrill." However, "Kokosing Farewell" is more often sung at ceremonies. "Kokosing Farewell," sung to the tune of the 1870 hymn "The Day Thou Gavest, Lord, Is Ending," is the traditional closing number for concerts of the Kenyon College Chamber Singers.

The college has maintained a tradition of formality at ceremonies. During the annual commencement ceremony, the conferring of degrees to the class and announcement of each individual student's degree of Bachelor of Arts is done entirely in Latin. Kenyon's diplomas are also written entirely in Latin.{{Cite web|url=https://www.kenyon.edu/offices-and-services/office-of-campus-events/commencement/diploma/|title=Translation of Kenyon's Diploma|access-date=July 16, 2021|archive-date=July 16, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210716175621/https://www.kenyon.edu/offices-and-services/office-of-campus-events/commencement/diploma/|url-status=live}}

The first Kenyon seal was designed no later than 1842 and contained a book, a cross, a scroll, a telescope, and a scientific apparatus surrounded by the words "Sigillum Collegi Kenyonensis" and "Ohio Resp". Since the second and current seal was introduced, the first seal has rarely been used.

Kenyon's second and current shield is derived from the coat of arms of Lord Kenyon, one of the college's first and most prominent benefactors. The shield consists of a chevron, three crosses, a book inscribed with the college's motto (as well as the Kenyon family's motto) magnanimiter crucem sustine ("valiantly bear the cross"), resting upon a bishop's staff, representing the college's founder, Bishop Philander Chase. The shield has become a widely used symbol for the college. A version of the shield that replaces the book and staff with "Kenyon" in block letters while the chevron and crosses remain has become the symbol for the college's athletic teams.{{cite web

url=https://documents.kenyon.edu/publicaffairs/22.KenyonAthleticShield.pdf|title=Kenyon Athletic Shield|website=Kenyon College|url=https://documents.kenyon.edu/publicaffairs/22.KenyonAthleticShield.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230626134144/https://documents.kenyon.edu/publicaffairs/22.KenyonAthleticShield.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=Jun 26, 2023}}

In 2011, American clothier Ralph Lauren discontinued production of a necktie depicting the Kenyon shield after it was found they did not license the rights from the college.{{Cite web|url=https://kenyoncollegian.com/archive/2011/09/kenyon-may-enter-lawsuit-with-ralph-lauren/|title=Kenyon May Enter Lawsuit with Ralph Lauren}}

The Bexley Seminary had its own shield until its dissociation from the college in 1968. While it contained the book, motto, and bishop's staff of the Kenyon shield, an eagle and ermine pattern blazoned the lower portion of the shield.{{cite web|url=https://digital.kenyon.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1082&context=reveille|title=Reveille 1925|publisher=Kenyon College|date=1925|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230824203502/https://digital.kenyon.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1082&context=reveille|archive-date=August 24, 2023}}

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Kenyon College has undertaken a number of sustainability initiatives, including a recycling system upgrade, a biodiesel project, a computer lab conversion to double-sided printing, the distribution of green living guides, as well as the creation of a dining hall composting system that diverts 6,000 pounds of waste from the landfill per week. Additionally Kenyon's cafeteria is committed to serving local food and has become a leader among college cafeterias in the country.{{cite web |url=http://www.gobeyondthebrochure.com/whats-campus-food-like-at-kenyon-college/ |title=What's Campus Food Like at Kenyon College |access-date=2017-08-11 |archive-date=August 11, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170811222435/http://www.gobeyondthebrochure.com/whats-campus-food-like-at-kenyon-college/ |url-status=live }}

Students partnered with administrators and professors to complete a campus energy audit for the past three years,{{when|date=September 2024}} as well as a carbon footprint calculation.

Kenyon Green Alumni was founded to connect graduates "with a professional interest in the environment." The college received a "C" grade on the 2010 College Sustainability Report Card, compiled by the Sustainable Endowments Institute.{{cite web |url=http://www.greenreportcard.org/report-card-2010/schools/kenyon-college |title=Kenyon College |website=Green Report Card |year=2010 |access-date=2014-08-16 }}{{Dead link|date=May 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

The Kenyon Farm is a mixed crop-livestock operation providing produce to local markets and giving students the opportunity to gain practical skills and knowledge for small-scale farming operations.{{cite web|url=http://www.kenyon.edu/about-kenyon/sustainability/clubs-and-orgs/kenyon-farm/about-kenyon-farm/|title=About the Kenyon Farm|website=Kenyon College|access-date=20 August 2018}}{{Dead link|date=May 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

Ivy, which once covered some buildings on the Kenyon campus, but damages stonework, has been eradicated.{{cite book |quote=All Kenyon's ivy is gone: they said it was destroying the stonework |last=Kluge |first=P. F. |date=2013-03-16 |title=Alma Mater: A College Homecoming |at=Kindle Location 995 |publisher=Crossroad Press |edition=Kindle}}

{{see also|Lowry Center}}

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Kenyon's sports teams, which compete in the North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC), were referred to as the Lords and Ladies until 2022 when a new nickname, the Owls, was adopted. At various points in the past, the teams were also known as the Mauve, the Purple, the Purple and White, the Hilltoppers, and simply as Kenyon.{{cite news |author= |title=Kenyon College changes nickname to Owls |url=https://mountvernonnews.com/stories/627412433-kenyon-college-changes-nickname-to-owls |newspaper=Mount Vernon News |location=Mount Vernon, Ohio |date=June 13, 2022 |access-date=June 24, 2024 }}{{cite web |author= |title=A History of Kenyon Monikers |url=https://www.kenyon.edu/kenyons-athletics-monikers/a-history-of-kenyon-monikers/ |publisher=Kenyon College |access-date=May 9, 2022 |archive-date=May 9, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220509215727/https://www.kenyon.edu/kenyons-athletics-monikers/a-history-of-kenyon-monikers/ |url-status=live }}

The men's swim team, in NCAA Division III, claims to have won, from 1980 through 2010, a record 31 consecutive NCAA national championships as well as consecutive titles between 2012 and 2015 for a total of 34 program titles. The women's swim team has won 24 non-consecutive titles of their own since 1984, the most recent being in 2022.{{cite web | url=https://swimswam.com/kenyon-women-win-by-7-end-emorys-ten-year-dominance-at-diii-nationals/ | title=Kenyon Women Win by 7, End Emory's Ten-Year Dominance at DIII Nationals | date=20 March 2022 | access-date=December 8, 2022 | archive-date=April 10, 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220410064146/https://swimswam.com/kenyon-women-win-by-7-end-emorys-ten-year-dominance-at-diii-nationals/ | url-status=live }}

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In 2006, Kenyon opened the "Kenyon Athletic Center" (currently, Lowry Center), a {{Convert|263,000|sqft|adj=on}} building. The building was named after William E. Lowry Jr., who served on Kenyon’s Board of Trustees for more than 30 years. Lowry also captained the football, baseball, and basketball teams and presided the student body.[https://forward.kenyon.edu/stories/story/announcing-the-lowry-center/ Anouncing the Lowry Center] on kenyon.edu

Football, field hockey, and lacrosse are played at McBride Field which has a seating capacity of 1,762.{{cite web|title=McBride Field|url=http://athletics.kenyon.edu/sports/2012/7/16/GEN_0716122646.aspx?tab=mcbridefield|website=athletics.kenyon.edu|publisher=Kenyon College|access-date=September 6, 2015|archive-date=September 5, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150905132134/http://athletics.kenyon.edu/sports/2012/7/16/GEN_0716122646.aspx?tab=mcbridefield|url-status=live}}

In 2019, Kenyon was one of the first National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)-member colleges to participate in the organization's LGBTQ OneTeam Program, which launched in fall 2019.{{cite news |last=Smola |first=Jennifer |date=2019-11-19 |title=Denison, Kenyon training other colleges to better support LGBTQ athletes as part of NCAA program |url=https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/education/2019/11/11/denison-kenyon-training-other-colleges/2314422007/ |work=The Columbus Dispatch |location= |access-date=2023-07-13 |archive-date=July 14, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230714035635/https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/education/2019/11/11/denison-kenyon-training-other-colleges/2314422007/ |url-status=live }}

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Notable alumni of Kenyon College include:

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• U.S. Supreme Court Justices David Davis (1832), Stanley Matthews (1840), and William Rehnquist (attended, 1946)
• U.S. Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton (1834)
• Abolitionist and women's rights activist John Celivergos Zachos (1840)
• U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes (1842)
• Poet Robert Lowell (1940)
• Writer Peter Taylor (1940)
• Novelist William H. Gass (1947)
• Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme (1948)
• Actor Paul Newman (1949){{Cite magazine |last=Menand |first=Louis |date=October 17, 2022 |title=Who Paul Newman Was—and Who He Wanted to Be |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/10/24/who-paul-newman-was-and-who-he-wanted-to-be |access-date=February 19, 2023 |magazine=The New Yorker}}
• Comedian Jonathan Winters (attended, 1950)
• Novelist E.L. Doctorow (1952)
• Poet James Arlington Wright (1952)
• Molecular biologist Harvey Lodish (1962){{Cite web |title=Harvey Lodish |url=http://lodishlab.wi.mit.edu/people/profiles/HarveyProfile.html |website=The Lodish Lab (mit.edu)}}
• Architect Graham Gund (1963)
• Cartoonist Jim Borgman (1976)
• Matthew Winkler (journalist) (1977)
• Professor of Law Amos N. Guiora (1979)
• Cartoonist Bill Watterson (1980)
• Author Donovan Webster (1981)
• Actor Allison Janney (1982)
• U.S. Congressman Zack Space (1983)
• Author Laura Hillenbrand (1989)
• U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget A. Brink (1991)
• Football coach Chris Creighton (1991)
• Author Jenna Blum (1992)
• Politician Leopoldo Lopez (1993){{cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/13/americas/leopoldo-lpez-fast-facts/index.html|title=Leopoldo López Fast Facts|first=CNN|last=Library|website=CNN|date=13 June 2017|access-date=20 August 2018}}
• Actor and filmmaker Josh Radnor (1996)
• U.S. Congresswoman Lizzie Pannill Fletcher (1997)
• Lawyer and climate activist Colette Pichon Battle (1997){{Cite web |title=Colette Pichon Battle for 2023 Commencement |url=https://www.kenyon.edu/news/archive/colette-pichon-battle-for-2023-commencement/ |access-date=2023-10-31 |website=Kenyon College |language=en |archive-date=October 31, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231031224742/https://www.kenyon.edu/news/archive/colette-pichon-battle-for-2023-commencement/ |url-status=live }}
• Basketball coach Shaka Smart (1999)
• Author John Green (2000)
• Legal scholar Aaron Perzanowski (2001)
• Author and filmmaker Ransom Riggs (2001){{Cite web |url=https://www.kenyon.edu/middle-path/people/profile/ransom-riggs/ |title=Ransom Riggs · Along Middle Path · Kenyon College |access-date=2019-07-21 |archive-date=2019-07-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190721012904/https://www.kenyon.edu/middle-path/people/profile/ransom-riggs/ |url-status=dead }}
• Political strategist Sarah Longwell (2002)
• Entrepreneur Juul James Monsees (2002)
• U.S. National Security Council spokesperson Tommy Vietor (2002)
• Astrophysicist and artist Nia Imara (2003){{Cite web |title=Black History Month 2022 |url=https://nsbp.org/blogpost/1997746/449659/February-22-2022--Dr-Nia-Imara |website=National Society of Black Physicists}}
• Entrepreneur and media executive Matthew Segal (2008)
• Musician Nicholas Petricca (2009)
• Musician Evan Stephens Hall (2011)
• Musician Justin Roberts (1992){{Cite web |last=Allen |first=Susie |title=Music man |url=http://magazine.uchicago.edu/1106/arts_sciences/music-man.shtml |access-date=March 17, 2023 |website=University of Chicago Magazine |archive-date=March 17, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230317213116/http://magazine.uchicago.edu/1106/arts_sciences/music-man.shtml |url-status=live }}
• Media executive Hugh Forrest (1984)

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File:President Rutherford Hayes 1870 - 1880.jpg|US President Rutherford B. Hayes, Class of 1842

File:Paul Newman 1954.JPG|Actor Paul Newman, Class of 1949

File:Allison Janney4crop.jpg|Actor Allison Janney, Class of 1982

File:Edwin McMasters Stanton Secretary of War.jpg|Edwin M. Stanton, U.S. Secretary of War under the Lincoln Administration, attended from 1831 to 1833

File:John Green by Gage Skidmore.jpg|Author John Green, Class of 2000

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• {{cite book |last=Kluge |first=P. F. |author-link=P. F. Kluge |title=Alma Mater: A College Homecoming |publisher=Addison-Wesley |year=1995 |isbn=978-0-201-48935-4}}
• Smythe, George Franklin (1924). Kenyon College: Its First Century. Yale University Press. {{ISBN|978-0-9623250-4-5}}.
• Barth, Christopher D. (2000). Kenyon Reborn: The Modernization of Kenyon College under the Administration of William Foster Peirce, 1896–1937. Kenyon College. {{ISBN|978-0-9623250-3-8}}.

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