Swarthmore College - Halcyon Yearbook (Swarthmore, PA)

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(Breeting. ' O you, dear reader, to the College, its patrons, and the world, The Halcyon gives greeting. To you the Class of ' 97 beg leave to present the XII volume of the Swarthmore College Annual. To the Board of Editors it has been Love ' s Labor, and we trust it may not be Lost. Feeling the responsibility of our position, it has been our constant aim to represent every phase of college life in its true and accurate light. If for a moment, then, you will forget the cares of a busy world and permit us to draw aside the curtain, we shall earnestly endeavor to present to you that drama, as acted on the stage, so dear to every Swarthmore heart. Our play is one of un- ceasing interest, of new plots, acted out each day. Here we have our heroes and our heroines, and here also are characters of minor importance. But all alike are subject to mistakes ; we all have our faults, and if, perchance, dear reader, some little act of yours be here recorded, if in our friendly digs we sometime strike your tender heart, we pray you be not wroth, but receive it in the spirit it is given, since we but hold the mirror up for other eyes. It has been our desire and may we say that we will feel our duty done if we give to all a comprehensive knowledge of Swarthmore, an insight into her Literary, Athletic, and Social organizations, the extent to which each is developed, and the standing of our College in the collegiate world. To those who have so kindly aided us in our publication, we extend our sincere thanks. And in after years, when we are severed from the asso- ciations which now bind us so closely together, when the tiny tendrils of our Aldworth ivy (a gift to ' 97 from the late great Poet Laureate), shall be twining upward, ever clinging closer to these granite walls, then may this, our Halcyon, ever remain as an offering and a token of gratitude from ' 97 to her Alma Mater. The Editors. 7

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A Sketch of the Life of Dr. Richard Jones. the age of fifteen Dr. Jones became teacher of a public school, where many of the pupils were older than himself. After two terms of teaching he entered the Grinnell Academy, where he won the medals for scholarships both years he was there. Next he attended Iowa College at Grinnell, Iowa. While there Dr. Jones won the Shakespeare prize, and also oratorical prizes. In ' 78 he was graduated from the classical course, and in ' 81 took the degree of A. M. For seven years Dr. Jones was principal of a high school in Iowa. Four years after his graduation from college, he was offered the presidency of a college just founded and now in a flourishing condition, but he was not free at the time to accept the proffered promotion. The summer vacations during the early part of his career, Dr. Jones spent in traveling in the West, and he has visited nearly every State in the Union. In 1 88 1 he was married to Miss Carrie Grinnell, the youngest daughter of the Hon. J. B. Grinnell, founder of the city, a friend of Horace Greeley, Wendell Phillips, John Brown, and other active Abolitionists. His home was a station on the underground railway for the fugitive slaves. Dr. Jones prizes highly a bed upon which John Brown once slept, and a book-case, a wedding gift of Wendell Phillips. In 1887 he was elected Professor of English Literature in the Illinois State Normal University, where he remained four years. His success there may be judged from the extracts from a letter written by President John W. Cook, of the Illinois State Normal University, intended only to hint to you my estimation of this most admirable and attractive man. President Cook writes: Few men that I have ever known could so succeed in arousing an interest in literature. . . . The qualities that rendered Dr. Jones so successful are : First, his absolute sincerity and sympathetic devotion to the interests of his pupils. Second, his enthusiastic nature, for which he 8