Swarthmore College - Halcyon Yearbook (Swarthmore, PA)

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upon the public instead of a public benefactor. If its annual receipts con- tinue to cover its regular current expenses and repairs, it is all that its best friends can reasonably expect ; and the improvements must continue to be made until the institution is largely endowed by constantly renewed and liberal private subscriptions. At the close of this year the first senior class of six was graduated at the first Annual Commencement of the College, all taking the classical degree of A. B. The exercises of this first graduating class (five young women and one young man) were printed in full, in pamphlet form, and constitute an interesting chapter in the early history of the College. It was during this first year that Edward Parrish, the first President of the College died, at Fort Sill, Indian Territory. He had been selected by President Grant to represent the government in an effort to make pacific arrangements between the Indians and the United States, and died while devoted to what promised to be a successful and useful service. I cannot better close this second chapter of Swarthmore ' s early history than by the following quotation from the opening of the Managers ' Report for 1872 : It is eminently fitting that allusion should be made in the opening of this report to the recent death of the first President of the College, Edward Parrish. One of the pioneers in the great wor k of founding a college, he was a most earnest and indefatigable laborer in the cause, and it was largely owing to his personal exertions that success so early crowned our efforts. Very many of the stockholders will remember that their interest in Svvarthmore was first awakened by his voice and pen. By conversation in that wide circle of Friends in which he moved, and where he was so much beloved ; by extensive correspondence, by public addresses, and by his work entitled Ediicatiivi in the Society of Friends, he did much to arouse attention to the importance of establishing among us an institution for higher culture ; culture not of the mind alone, but of the heart as well ; and thus, in connection with his untiring efforts to secure the means neces- sary for carrying out this design, he performed a labor destined to have a lasting influence for good upon our religious society, and upon the com- munity at large. 15

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department, Professor Beardsley. I quote the following from the Managers ' Report for twelfth month, 1872 : In connection with the scientific course, coinciding with it through the sophomore class, and branching off in the junior year, a course in Civil Engineering is also established. For this course the degree of C. E. was offered in the catalogue of this year, but it was changed to B. S. in the following year, and C. E. has only been given under proper conditions, three years after graduation. The attempt made by Dr. Joseph Leidy the previous year to secure the necessary funds for increasing the collections of the Museum of Natural History and supplying the proper cases, resulted this year in obtaining about $1,600, with which, under his direction, the most needed improvements were made. But much more was required to place the Museum upon the proper basis as a practical medium of instruction in Natural History. Various other needs began to be increasingly felt, and during the year the Managers made an earnest appeal to the friends of the College, and summed up the principal present requirements, as follows : Apparatus and Reference Books for Chemical Labor- atory, $500 Apparatus and Reference Books for Physical Labor- atory, 500 • Cases and Specimens for Museum of Natural History, 2,000 Books, Maps, Charts, etc., for Reference Library, . 1,000 Workshop and Mechanical Appliances, 1,000 Girls ' Gymnasium and Natatorium, 5,000 They close their earnest appeal in these words, which are applicable to-day and always to all institutions for advanced education : If Swarth- more had for its chief object the accumulation of money instead of the advancement of the cause of education, there is no doubt but that a surplus for a few years at least could be readily saved from the present receipts, for the simple reason that much more would be received from the public than would be given to the public in return. Our College was surely never intended to be managed upon such principles, and to become a pensioner 14

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FACULTY. Arranged, with the exception of the President and Dean, in the Order of Election. CHARLES DE GARMO, PH. D., President and Professor of Philosophy. Ph. D., University of Halle, 1886; at Swarthmore since 1891. Author of Essentials of Alefkod (iS iO)) ; Series of Language Lessons [I ' gd) ; Lindner ' s Psychology, translation (1889) ; Tales of Troy, translation (1891) ; Lange ' s Apperception, edited translation (1893) ; Her bosh and the Modern German Edtication (1894). ELIZABETH POWELL BOND, Dean. At Swarthmore since 1886. EDWARD HICKS MAGILL, LL. D., Professor of the French Language and Literature. A. B., Brown University, 1852. A. M., Brown University, 1855; LL. D., Haverford, 1886; A K E and l B K Fraternities; at Swarthmore since 1869. Author of A French Gra?nmar {l )); Key to French Grammar (1859); Lntroductory French Reader { ' ibo); French Prose and Poetry {1S62) ; Reading Trench Grammar (1892); Modern French Series, vols, i (1893), ii (1893), iii (1894); other volumes to follow. 16