Swarthmore College - Halcyon Yearbook (Swarthmore, PA)

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HALCYON first, from being obliged to lower their standards of scholarship and character, and sec- ond, from sudden discontinuance of income upon demobilization. President Swain has drawn our attention to the absence of the former condition at Swarthmore; and these ele- ments being interdependent, the latter detriment was evidently negligible. Finally, as for those persons who decried the establishment of the military unit at Swarthmore, let us refer to our opening words, with this much in addition, — that while the Stars and Stripes, float- ing over Parrish Hall during that period of three months, designated Swarthmore College as a military post, those colors still may wave emblematic of the service rendered, while beneath that flag there exists a College mind no less loyal to traditional origin, and cer- tainly invigorated and refreshed by this serviceable deviation from patriarchal precedent. I z D Z D 24

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-A-- HALCYON He put the kybosh on the erst-while class scraps 4f « ««to I z r z D and substituted in their places such as this. who spoiled our sleep in the morning. Th en along came 26