Kenyon College occurs as personal liberal arts college founded in Gambier, Ohio in 1824, by Episcopal Bishop Philander Chase. Originally an a lot-male institution, Kenyon became co-co-ed within 1969. Kenyon remains loosely affliated by using a Episcopal Church in the United States of America. Kenyon College occurs as member of the Five Colleges of Ohio, Great Lakes Colleges Association, and a Association of Episcopal Colleges.

Academics
Kenyon's English Department is mayhap a better known among a college's academician departments. A English department 1st gained recognition by owning a arrival of the poet & critic John Crowe Ransom in 1937 as Prof of Poetry & foremost editor of The Kenyon Review, a literary journal. Peradventure a department's greatest influence in U.s. literature derives from either a role that it played in the development of a theory of literary survey called "the New Criticism." At the time whenever numerous scholars & teachers focused on the historical backgrounds of a literary text or even probed authors' life story for psychological clues, Ransom & his coeval argued for a method of literary analysis which took literature to exist as the virtually all important way humanity has ever devised for looking for reality, & which took texts themselves using corresponding seriousness, reading the two closely & interpreting the two intensively. Besides John Crowe Ransom, notable English faculty have involved Jacques Barzun, Elizabeth Bishop, Eric Bentley, Cleanth Brooks, William Empson, Alfred Kazin, Robert Lowell, Arthur Mizener, Allen Tate, Robert Penn Warren, Yvor Winters, and sir thomas more recently, John Kinsella and James Wood. Previous English students at Kenyon include poets Robert Lowell, Randall Jarrell, Robert Mezey, James Wright, and Anthony Hecht, biographer and poet Daniel Mark Epstein, playwright Wendy MacLeod, and authors Peter Taylor, Fred Waitzkin, P. F. Kluge, James Wright, William Gass, Laura Hillenbrand, and E. L. Doctorow.

Athletics
Kenyon's sports teams come known as a Lords & Ladies, & their colors come purple & whiten, by owning gold typically added as an accent. A college's men's & women's swimming teams are usually considered among a right within NCAA Division III, with a men's team winning Twenty-six sequentially national championships & a women's Xx (non consecutively). Swimming Coach Jim Steen has coached the virtually all wins inside any sport in NCAA history.

Notable alumni

Nick Bakay, television personality Jim Bellows, legendary journalist and newspaper editor Jim Borgman, political cartoonist Caleb Carr, novelist and military historian Jay Cocks, film critic Adam Davidson, Academy Award winning director David Davis, Senator, United States Supreme Court Justice E. L. Doctorow, novelist and cultural critic Rolla Dyer, developer of the typhus-vaccine, and director of the National Institutes of Health Carl Djerassi, the owner of the birth control pill, winner of the National Medal of Science in 1973 Graham Gund, architect Rutherford B. Hayes, Nineteenth President of the United States Anthony Hecht, poet Allison Janney, actress, four-period winner of the Emmy Award for work on The West Wing Robert Lowell, poet Paul Newman, actor, winner of the Emmy Award, winner of the Academy Award Kris Osborn, CNN anchor Olof Palme, former Prime Minister of Sweden Alfred Humphreys Pease, composer Coles Phillips, artist Josh Radnor, actor William Rehnquist (attended one month), previous Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Mark Rosenthal, MTV president Edwin Stanton, Secretary of War during the Lincoln administration Peter Taylor, writer Bill Watterson, cartoonist, best known for Calvin and Hobbes Matt Winkler, editor, Bloomberg News Jonathan Winters, actor and comedian James Wright, poet Victoria Wyatt, art historian

Student organizations
Kenyon Collegian (student newspaper) Ascension Films (student filmmaking society)

Historic buildings
A campus is noted for its Gothic architecture and rustic setting. Although suffering 2 good fires (fallowing which it was rebuilt), Old Kenyon Hall (1827) is believed to exist as a number 1 Gothic revival building in Northerly Us.

Old Kenyon Hall Ascension Hall