Haverford College - Record Yearbook (Haverford, PA)

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WILLIAM WISTAR COMFORT President igi 7-1940

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THE RECORD NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FORTY THE ANNUAL PUBLICATION OF THE SENIOR CLASS HAVERFORD COLLEGE HAVERFORD, PENNSYLVANIA

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PRESIDENT COMFORT is not, to the men in College, a glorious scholastic career or author of many well-known books. He is, in the most respectful sense possible, not even Dr. W. W. Comfort. He is Uncle Billy. He cannot be, to the average undergraduate, a figure who makes speeches at banquets and holds honorary degrees. He is the old gentle- man who comes up the walk from his house on Tuesdays and Fridays to sit in the middle chair on the platform at Collection. And it isn ' t until the undergraduate realizes that he won ' t always be in that chair that it occurs to him how much he belongs there. He is the man who sits on the extreme right of the rear bench at Meeting, and who has bewildered generations of Haverfordians by his uncanny (and apparently intuitive) feeling for 12:15 p.m. He is also the man who occasionally stands up and tells them things about themselves, which they may or may not like to hear, but which are always true. He is a very wise old gentleman who can, with equal facility, trace a word to its Sanscrit root and a piece of undergraduate mischief to its proper room in Barclay. He is the man who knows the priceless wisdom of not interfering. He will tell you that you ' re about to make a mistake — and not insist on his rights when you go ahead and make it anyhow. He has done all these things and said all these things and, perhaps, by themselves they do not seem especially important. But they are, nonetheless, indicative of greater and vastly more important things. They show patience and tolerance and wisdom, and sense of justice tempered by a keen sense of humor. To this very fine and very witty and very true gentleman, we dedicate this Record. {From an Editorial in the Haverford News 6y V. D. Haisey)