Swarthmore College - Halcyon Yearbook (Swarthmore, PA)

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SWARTHMORE COLLEGE. SWARTHMORE, PA. INCORPORATED BY MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS, J 864. First Class Graduated 1873 COLOR— GARNET. YELL: ' Rah, ' rah! ' Rah, ' rah, ' rah! ' Rah, ' rah! ' Rah, ' rah, ' rah! Swarthmore! 13

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SWARTHMORE COLLEGE VIEWS.

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Swarthmore College ITS ORIGIN AND SOME NOTES UPON ITS EARLY HISTORY. By Edward H. Magill, LL. D. CHAPTER VIII. IXTEENTH YEAR, 1884-85.-011 the loth of Fourth month of this year the College lost, by death, the valuable services of the Superintendent. Thomas S. Foulkes. He had served the College with untiring energy and imremitting care for a period of thirteen years. His interest in its success was unsurpassed, and he never spared himself when his duties seemed to call for his services. His kindly and genial disposition warmed toward him the hearts of all by whom he was surrounded. His ever ready jests and good stories made his office a centre of attraction. Students of that time will recall with pleasure the cordial reception which ever awaited them there. He had a story ever ready and ap- propriate to illustrate the passing occurrences of the day, and in this respect he was not unlike our martyr President Lincoln. Plis unselfish devotion to his work may be illustrated by a circumstance not generally known. Forest fires were not uncommon in those earlier days of the College, when huts and caves of Preps were not infrequent on the wooded hillside along the Crum. The origin of these mysterious fires mav be readily conjectured. To extinguish these was frequently no inconsiderable task. It was at one of these fires, where, with others, he spent a good part of the night in surrounding and arresting the flames, that he was so exhausted when he retired toward morning that fears were entertained for the result 14