Swarthmore College - Halcyon Yearbook (Swarthmore, PA)

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Calenbar 1901 Ninth month 19th College year began. Eleventh month 28th -....Thanksgiving recess. Twelfth month 14th Shakespere evening. Twelfth month 20th Winter recess began, 1902 First month 6th Students return. Second month ist Second semester begins. Third month 7th College oratorical contest. Third month 8th College reception. Third month 29th Spring recess begins. Fourth month 8th. College work resumed. Fourth inonth 12th Somerville reunion. Fourth montlj i8th 1904-IQ05 oratorical contest. Fourth montii 22 =. Junior oratorical contest. Fourth month .25th.. : .Literary society contest. Fifth month 19th Senior examinations begin. Fifth month 24th Senior examinations completed. Sixth month 2d Final examinations begin. Sixth month 9th Class day exercises. Sixth month loth Commencement. 10

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Svvartbmore ColleGe llts ©rigin anC Some IHotes TIlpou its Earlv f istorv 36g EEiwarO 1b. IRagill, %%. a . CHAPTER IX. IGHTEEXTH YEAR, 1886-87. — The most important event of this eighteenth year of the College, when viewed retrospectively, after the lapse of sixteen more years, was the appointment to the position of latron of Elizabeth Powell Bond. She took the place made vacant by the resignation of Anna W. Frost Clapp, after serving in this position satisfactorily for a period of four years. It was soon seen, after the appointment of Irs. Bond, that a new element, destined to exercise a pow- erful influence for good on the welfare of the College, had been introduced into government, and the conviction of the great gain we had experienced by her appointment has become more and more evident with every passing year. It had been felt for some time that the title of 2 ,Iatron, as used gener- ally, did not properly applv to the position at Swarthmore. and it was not many years after ; Irs. Bond ' s appointment that the position was honored by the far more appropriate title of Dean, by which alone it has been known in later vears. The influence of the new Dean, then (pardon this use of the word before the title was yet conferred, as no other word will do as well), was soon felt, not alone in the dining-room, where she presided, and among the young women, whose care in the home life was especially entrusted to her, but in all the departments of the College, in a way, it may be said to have been felt, like the all-diffusive and inspiring influence of the sun and air. The voung men felt this equally with the young women, although she was never one to assume authoritv of any kind not expressly delegated. The Faculty all felt this in their meetings, and separately 12