Haverford College - Record Yearbook (Haverford, PA)

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DEDICATION JACKSON H. ALLEN THE PASSING OF TIME IS A STRANGE SORT OF THING. THE WRITER TRIES TO COMPREHEND IT AND PUT HIS UNDERSTANDING ON PAPER, TO TOUCH ON SOMETHING HIS PREDECESSORS HAVE PERHAPS NOT THOUGHT OF, TO SEE IT FROM ANOTHER POINT OF VIEW. ALWAYS HE IS LOOKING BACK, TRYING TO UNDERSTAND WHAT HAS HAPPENED, TO UNDERSTAND WHAT IS HAPPENING. WHAT WILL HAPPEN. BUT THE ABILITY TO REMEMBER IS FAULTY. SOME PERHAPS REMEMBER A SMILE OR A LAUGH. OR A GUY WHOSE NAME YOU CAN ' T QUITE RECALL — WHO WAS NEVER SATISFIED WITH HIMSELF. WHO WAS ALWAYS TRYING TO DO BETTER IN HIS WORK OR TENNIS. BUT THERE IS A PICTURE, AND PICTURES ALWAYS SEEM TO BRIDGE THE GAP OF TIME MOST VIVIDLY. HE WAS A NICE GUY, SOMEONE SAYS, PERHAPS ECHOING WH. T THE OTHERS ARE THINKING BUT DO NOT SAY. Four

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Ui.- . a story of the year 1954-1955 HAVERFORD COLLEGE Haver j or d, Pen n sylvan ia n the tneteen fifty-ftve RECORD £j£».

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' tl ' J i ' iu ux-;uE Probably one of the most purged classes in recent College history, this year ' s Senior Class is unrivaled in the field of unenthusi- asm of an academic nature. This, however, was not always the case, an interesting phe- nomenon of increasing senility over a four year span — perhaps due to the Bcat ' on-the- Freshman customs of their first and trau- matic year. The little Rhinies went on to run rampant, submerging the various Barclay floors (one of them had to be replaced); and they were the last class to wear Rhinie dinks to the football games. We see the passing on of a tradition here — a definite movement toward a kind of sophisticated indifference with the new social influx of students, while still re- taining some of the earmarks of the former frolics. In the Sophomore year, Mike Shor was elected ICG speaker at Harnsburg. The year was also notable as the great weeding out period, and the class enrollment hung waver- ingly about the century mark. The Junior year was an upswing in the cycle: Berkeley Harris directed a winning Class Night show in what was probably the greatest collection ot gimmicks, stage effects, Harrisian Humor, and Raperian music. The Harris movement had its influence in the Senior year also, but tempered somewhat by a note of fatalism in both the creative work and general attitude — there were eight dead bodies in the Senior Show — a subtle parallel to the new administrative policy: Idyllic (was) the word for Haverford. ' The picture on the follow. ' ing page shows some of the Seniors as they actually are and not as they appear on pages 8-39. ' Robert M. Hutchmj. Havcrford College Com- mencement Address, 19S4. ft ' - . n 3.%z ' b . 1 . ! ... jn ' id h—- RVr . jgi — 72 .. ' ' ■■ v z. K J