Haverford College - Record Yearbook (Haverford, PA)

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ADMINISTRATION The student knows that things run fairly smoothly at Haverford — he is vaguely aware that fresh- men are selected, policy shaped, and money raised each year. Be- yond this he has little interest in. or knowledge of. the Administra- tion. He is likelv to become ac- quainted with at least one or two of the men in Roberts during his four-year stay, and the chances are that he will find that they are intel- ligent people with a real concern for educa tion; qua Administration members, however, they are remote bv small college standards. Page 19

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WALLACE M. MacCAFFREY w Wallace T. MacCaffrey has the knowledge and dedication of a master teacher, but his distinguish- ing excellence is that he has the master teacher ' s technique as well. His heavy assignments, his high standards, and his wonderfully disciplined lectures are all impor- tant parts of this technique: more important is the way in which he runs a discussion class. With Mac- Caflfrev, one learns for keeps. The secret I or rather the result of the secret — one learns the secret only by becoming another master teacher ) is Professor MacCaffrey ' s consummate ability to manipulate a problem. Passing it around the room, occasionally dropping it in the middle of the table, MacCaf- frey skillfully controls its slow and laborious demise. Make no mis- take, MacCaffrey knows how he wants the problem solved — he also wants his students to do the solv- ing. It may take them three hours of twisted analogies and non sequi- turs to construct what MacCaffrey could have put together in fifteen minutes, but at the end of class, each student carefully wraps up the result and takes it home, a per- manent possession because he helped to make it. Page 18

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Thus the student gets the impres- sion that the Administration ' s con- cern for education is oriented not towards him personally, but to- wards a hazy, ill-defined entity called the College . Undergradu- ates, wrapped up in the task of dealing with the parts of the Col- lege which affect them directly, are not likely to see it as a whole, and often do not understand or sympa- thize with the Administration ' s perspective. ' - !?ie%. ' ' :J