The New Student Sing for the Class of 2025 and incoming transfer students will take place Wednesday, Aug. 15, at approximately 5:55 p.m. on the steps of Rosse Hall.
This important rite of passage was established by Acting Kenyon President Frank Bailey in 1956 to more deliberately initiate the incoming classes to the traditions and lore of Kenyon.
The fourth and final song is "Kokosing Farewell," Kenyon's spiritual alma mater, and the entire Kenyon community is invited to sing along:
Old Kenyon, we are like Kokosing
Obedient to some strange spell,
Which urges us from all reposing,
Farewell, Old Kenyon, fare thee well.
And yet we are not like Kokosing
Which beareth naught upon its swell
But foam of motion's own composing,
Farewell, Old Kenyon, fare thee well.
But when we are far from Kokosing
We still shall hear a calling bell,
When 'round us evening shades are closing,
Farewell, Old Kenyon, fare thee well.
And see a river like Kokosing
In meadows sweet with asphodel,
Where mem'ry dwells dear past supposing,
Farewell, Old Kenyon, fare thee well.
(Words by Canon Orville Watson)