Haverford College - Record Yearbook (Haverford, PA)

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Each fall, one hundred twenty-five simple, optimistic youth pass down College Lane into the waiting arms of Haverford ' s teachers and administrators. About four months short of four years later, approximately one hundred thinking individuals and callous realists emerge. Unlimited energy, a myriad of lec- tures, and an infinite number of hour exams have been plied by the Faculty to produce the thinking individuals, while the callous realists result from an equal amount of energy, omni- present charges, and endless cut probation emanating from stolid Roberts Hall. Of course, the educational process is not all one-sided. The Class of ' 59 hopes that the dedicated efforts of its teaching and administering elders will have been repaid in some degree by the satisfaction of a moral victory. A small group of astronomy students shares with Louis Green the intellectual advantage offered both teacher and pupil by Haverford ' s hish faculty-student ratio. Nine

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ADMINISTRATION AND FACULTY . . ROBERTS HALL

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HUGH BORTON President The College comnumity has had ample oppor- tunity to get better acquainted with Hugh Borton in this, his sophomore year as President. After last year ' s round of inauguration, con- gratulation, and initiation, Mr. Borton settled down in his (dry) office in Roberts Hall to sink his teeth into the myriad of tasks and problems which continually beset the modern college executive. How well he succeeded is difficult to pinpoint. His policies were criticized for lack of . . . policy! But as the year wore on, critics were forced to admit that some of their criti- cism was unfounded ; there was even deserved praise for his stand on loyalty oaths for government fellowships. Having not yet shed all vestiges of his days at Columbia, Mr. Borton also teaches a course in East Asian Studies. Every Wednesday after- noon, he leaves his sanctuary in Roberts to meet the Haverford animal face to face across the seminar table in Chase 1. Students who take his course find that the austere prexy has a fluent teaching method, a shy wit, and a knack for making the intrigues of the Tokugawa shoc uns extremely vivid. Pic- tures of mixed bathing in Japanese watering places add life to the academic mood, and Mr. Borton ' s deadpan rendition of an inane Chinese play is a high spot of the course. Four Oriental Bryn Mawr girls help create atmosphere and blushingly serve as examples for illustrating complex sociological problems. ( All Chine.se fathers want boy babies. Now, with all due re- spect to Miss Yen, Vm sure her father was quite disappointed when .she was born . . . ) Thus it gradually becomes apparent, as Hugh Borton finishes his second year at Haverford, that he is not like Uncle Billy Comfort or Felix Morley or Gilbert White. He is like Hugh Borton. Ten