Swarthmore College - Halcyon Yearbook (Swarthmore, PA)

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Calcnbar 1903 Ninth month 17th, College year began. Eleventh month 25th, Thanksgiving recess. Twelfth month 4th, ; Declamation contest. Twelfth month nth, Intercollegiate debate. Twelfth month 22d, Winter recess began. 1904 First month 5th College work resumed. Second month 1st Second semester began. Second month 12th, College oratorical contest. Third month 19th, College reception. Third month 21st, Joint meeting of Somerville and Eunomian. Third month 25th College concert. Third month 30th, Spring recess began. Fourth month gth Somerville reunion. Fourth month 26th, 1906-1907 oratorical contest. Fifth month 5th, Junior oratorical contest. Fifth month 7th Interscholastic oratorical contest. Fifth month 30th Senior examinations begin. Sixth month 4th, Senior examinations completed. Sixth month 6th, Final examinations begin. Sixth month 13th Class day exercises. Sixth month 14th, Commencement. 10

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Swattbmore CoUcgc llts ©rigin anb Some IRotes ' Clpon Its Earl Ibistors 3BB EJiwar Ibicfts agfll, %%. 2). CHAPTER XL HE TWENTY-SECOND YEAR, 1890-91. — These notes having now covered a period of twenty- one years, we have reached, at length, the near approach of the time so long aimed at, when the College would be entirely free from the added care and burden of a large Preparatory School. In this twenty-second year the whole number of students was 206, with 41 of these still unpre- pared for Freshman work, but they constituted no longer classes of a Preparatory School, but were called a Sub-Collegiate class, with the hope and expectation (long since realized at this writing), that the College would not, very much longer, be crippled in its work by the incubus of a large Preparatory School, which the educational conditions among us made a necessity in our earlier years. The President of the College having now returned from his year of absence spent in foreign travel and in the study of the best educational methods abroad, entered upon his work as Professor of the French Language and Literature, and Professor William Hyde Appleton, who had taken his place as Acting President in his ab- sence, was now offered the position of President, but preferred the duties of his professorship. He, however, accepted the position, with the understanding that he should retain it only until a permanent successor could be appointed. During this twenty-second year of the College the Friends ' Historical Library (founded by Anson Lapham, soon after the opening of the College) was materially increased by a gift of Dillwyn Parrish, Jr., of London; and through the efforts of Albert A. Merritt, of New York, and the liberality of interested friends there and else- where, money was raised to purchase the library of a deceased English Friend, a collection rich in many volumes that we did not before possess. This library has each year become a more important aid to the students of Friends ' principles, and the history of the Society, and is now the largest collection of Friends ' books in this country. The following quotation from the annual report of the Board of Managers to the stockholders, in the Twelfth month, 1890, is of interest, as being not only applicable at that time, but never out of place in the history of an 12