Swarthmore College - Halcyon Yearbook (Swarthmore, PA)

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Uiiifi l ssociatior . OFFICERS. President : MARIE ANTOINETTE KEMP, ' yg. Vice-Presidents : JAMES T. McCLURE, ' 76, ESTHER T. MOORE, ' 73, EMMA GAWTHROP HAYES, ' 88. Treasurer: WILLIAM ' J. HALL, ' 78, Secretary : GERRIT E. H. WEAVER, ' 82. Recorder : HERMAN HOOPES, ' 74. Board of Directors : ISAAC G. SMEDLEY, ' 76, THOMAS A. JENKINS, ' 87, WILLIAM J. HALL, ' 78, LOUELLA PASSMORE, ' 89, ELIZABETH HASLAM, ' 82, MORRIS L. CLOTHIER, ' 90. The President, The Secretary, Ex- officio. The Tbjeasurer, J 17

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Swarthmore College, SWARTHMORE, PA. INCORPORATED BY MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS, 1864. First Class Graduated 1873 COLOR— Garnet. Cheer ' Rah, ' rah! ' Rah, ' rah, ' rah! ' Rah, ' rah! ' Rah, ' rah, ' rah! Swarthmore !

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Wartl n ore ' s ocial life. THE oracular saying, All things come to him that can wait, is veri- fied again. At the Alumni Banquet, in ' 91, one of the guests was asked to speak of the influence of the social life at Swarthmore. It was felt by the speaker that a meeting of Swarthmore graduates, to whom the social life of the college had become a thing of the past, was a less important occasion for the consideration of this theme than would be a company of Swarthmore ' s undergraduate students. Now, The Halcyon invites a contribution upon this theme, and The Halcyon ' s banquet is spread not only for the Alumni, but for the undergraduates as well. So, the waited opportunity has come. The social life of Swarthmore is unique, for it is unusual for college life to keep so much of the semblance of home as Swarthmore does. The first requirement of the day is a requirement of most homes — that the mem- bers of the household shall punctually give the good cheer of their presence at the breakfast table. It is a severe strain that Swarthmore home-life has to bear in making up its household from fragments of so many households the wide country over. And it sometimes happens that young people care- fully nurtured at home, young people of pleasant manners while under the restraining eye of father and mother, Avhen brought into the society of their peers and left to self-direction find themselves for a time like a steam-engine without a governor, and with similar results. These are they whose un- regulated conduct sometimes makes life hard in the Swarthmore household. But there is abundant testimony that sooner or later such members come to 18