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Winter 1940 • Vol. II No. 1 • Editor's Notes |

Editorial Notes

The Cover

The cover for the 1940 volume, beginning with this number, is designed by Mr. Norris Rahming. The symbol it carries is an adapted photograph of one of the windows which Mr. Charles Jay Connick made some years ago for the College. The figure on horseback is Philander Chase, 1775-1852, New England pioneer in this region, first Bishop of the Diocese of Ohio, founder of the College in 1823, and well suited in his person to become, as he did, the subject of the most engaging part of its legend.

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