Haverford College - Record Yearbook (Haverford, PA)

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THE HAVERFORD THAT IS TO BE By Ruins M. Jones, ' 85 assurance we can have for plotting the curve of the future. Some one has wisel) said that if a story is to end well ii must begin in such a waj thai il can end well. Conclusions must nol be shot out of a pistol. The) musl emerge out of what already has been. The new I tavei ford of the se ond i entur) v ill of necessity be built on the foundations of the Haverford whose history we now know higher education were nobl) interpreted in all three of the addresses. 1 1 »ne of the m sl important aspects of the new program is the emphasis put upon the selei tive process under which admission i of students will be made to the college. Each applicant will, as formerly, be te led intelle tualK by the college board e :ami nations, but that will be only one of ma n ways of discovering fitness for entran - The judgment of the headmaster, and file pasl is secure. The ground has been other experts, in the applicant ' s preparatory well prepared and the pillars for an endur ing structure have been laid in wisdom and in sincerity. It happens that the turn of the century in the life of Haverford has come at the moment when American Education is undergoing the deepest heart-searching it has ever received. We are passing from an implicit stage nf nurture and culture t an explicit stage. We are endeavoring now In see where we art ' going before we go. For four months in the academic year nf 1 ' 3( h3 1 twenty-seven members nf the Haverford facult) worked with fidelity and patience at the task of the revaluation nf the methods, the aims and the ideals nf the college. Advice and council were sought -hunl will |„- sought and carefully 01, sidered. A thoroughly trained member of the faculty, conversant wi h the intellcc tual standards of the college, w ith n-, aim and ideals, will visit the scl Is where students are preparing fur Haverford. He will study their aptitudes, habil ; an 1 1 liar acter and will assist them to follow the right lines nf preparation, h is expei led that all prospective students will either visit the college themselves before they are admitted, or will he visited 1 Mime one who is a capable exponent nf the selective process. The aim i the selecting work is nnt to secure intellectual giants or rare geniuses, nol to have a college made up ni mental prodigies, bul In secure men who from the most important leaders nf higher ' ' ire intellectually alert, keenly interested in education in America, and a number of colleges of the general type nf Haverford were studied fur lines of light and guidance. These months nf intensive research culmi- nated in a remarkable Pre-Centenary Day gathering at the college mi April 18th, 1931, when the new plans and program were interpreted to a large assembly of alumni and friends. It proved to he one of the mosl impres- the pursuit nf truth and in an enlarged scope ni lif t ' . and who are able to earn mi their studies from stage to stage in a re- sponsible way and with potential capacity to do work nf honor grade. It is the general belief nf those who have been engaged in the formulation of the pro gram for the future that the best results both in terms nf life and in terms of scholarship can he attained in a college that Sive and one ni the most significant events is geniunerj a small college, and the present the hfe ni the College. President W W. ( omforl in an admirable address inter- preted the new aims and proposals. Presi- dent A. Lawrence Lowell nf Harvard I ' ni- versit) gave a constructive address on Higher Education in America Today, and President Thomas S. 1 rates nf the I ni versity nf Pennsylvania, a former student nf Haverford, dealt with the mission and function nf The Small College. The fun- damental tasks and issues ni American ■ attractively printed number nf three hundred men is almosl universal!} approved as the ideal number. There will probably he in addition in the three hundred undergraduates twelve or fifteen graduate students working for a second degree under the conditions ni the Moses Brown Foundation for graduate study. Here in this beautiful Setting ni tins and tic Ids and lawns these three hun- dred and fifteen selected men will have an (Continued on page 1.17) booklet and were broad, ist from coast to roast for the entire country to hear.

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MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT YOUB Class of L933 has the distinction of graduating at the turn of the first century of Haverford ' s history. 1 cannol hut think how interesting it would be to compare you as young men with the little hand of students who gathered here in Founders Hall one hundred years ago. They were very differ- ent in some respects from you and they faced a very different world. But those first Baverfordians and their successors through three generations have made possible all that the Col- lege has done for you. 1 hope that you will always remember that you are not only descendants hut also ancestors, and that it is your part to carry the best of the past into the future. W. W. Comfort.

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