Conway Hall Preparatory School - Log Yearbook (Carlisle, PA)

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Classes of Conway Hall Junior Class 35

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Our Dean The subject of this brief, inadequate paragraph is the accomplished scholar and savant whose pictured countenance is the choice esthetic treasure of this volume. Turn to the frontispiece and mark the Byronic grace of pose, the meditative air, the far-away seraphic gaze, the ex- pression of celestial abstraction and pensive reserve wherewith his eloquent portrait awakes the sentiment of awe. Journalist, author, dramatic critic, patron of the arts, and pedagogue — these are the professional terms which sug- gest the broad achievements of his highly distinguished career. Descended from old New England Puritan stock, vintage of 1630. Professor Swift conferred upon the favored State of Massachusetts the inestimable privilege of his birthplace. By some unaccountable aberration of judgment — probably due to his immature years — he entered Plarvard College, but promptly realizing the error of his choice, transferred his young allegiance to Dickinson, becoming at once the most active as well as the most ornamental unit in the class of 1904 — a famous all-star aggregation. Next to the extraordinary quality of his scholarship, Professor Swift’s primary distinction as an undergraduate was his long and meritorious service in the exalted post of Chaplain of the Sophomore Band — which tenure of office was co-terminous with the boundaries of his academic course. After four successful and brilliant years as correspondent and editorial writer for the big Baltimore and New York dailies, Professor Swift exchanged journalism for pedagogy, becoming Master of English in Conway Hall in 1907. Here he continues to labor in our behalf, devoted to his honorable calling of teacher, safe in the possession of learning, secure in the respect of his colleagues and the affectionate regard of his pupils. 34

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Junior Class, 1910 Class Colors — Purple and White OFFICERS President — C. Ira Pratt. Vice-President — Edgar R. Bastress. Secretary — Miss Margaret Morgan. Treasurer — T. Lester Killough. Historian — Carlyle R. Earp. Dean — Charles W. Hadden. «