Haverford College - Record Yearbook (Haverford, PA)

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Prologue

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CONTENTS Paye I ' N ' liLiii a ' K 9 Facim,t ' 12 Skmors 26 (7RAi) ' ' ATK StUDKNTS 60 ()Tlil:R Cl.ASSKS 61 All i iTiKs 65 Atih.f.tics 81 Fkattrks 97 COLLEGK DlKlU ' TORV 108 Al) KRTISKMENTS 113

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- -l ' M ' : PROLOGUE T ' l ' has often lieen pointed out to the un(leri;;rad- - ■ nates of Havcrford Colle5j;e that the theories and prt ' jtuhces with ret ard to rehgion, iiohties. and life-in-ijeneral which we ])ossess when we enter are ehanjj;t ' d and mellowed throughout our four years sojourn. Many of these changes have heen so gradual and have occurred so dee]) within us that we have failed to notice them. But there lias l)een one factor which, as it altered, we could not hut mark well — oin impressions. Indeed, in retrospect, we find that ll;i erford is jiar excellence an institution of imjjressions. Most of uur earlier im])ressions ha e undergone complete reversal in the course of time from Freshman to Senior year. It is interesting and enlightening to look hack on the wa ' we felt four years ago. Comparisons are odious, hut in this case it is highly fitting that we hark hack to the past, resurrect a few of our old opinions and set them beside our present feelings. The jnirpose of this prologue, then, is to aid in the resurrection. and to view the wreck of the old in the light of the new. When the class of 1935 gathered within these cloistered ])recincts for the first tiiue. the average one of us. let ' s call him Anyone ' I ' liirlifivc, re- marked from ajipearances that this group was sim- ilar to that entering any small college save in one res])ect — here were few athletes and many schol- ars. Hy mid-years this opinion had changed only in that now Mr. Anyone Thirtifive felt a good number of those he had formerly deemed schol- ars were merely i suedo-scholars. By this. A. Thirtifive. referred to a portion of his co-mates in education who acted lik- the most profound of scholars everywhere but in tiie classroom. That is. they .secluded themselves (Anyone, drawing from his knowledge of the past, felt that a life a])art must be conducive to great learning) and. when infrequently seen or beard, outside of class, were discussing topics in extremely cultered ac- cents which only the erudite could comprehend. •{ 9 }■