Swarthmore College - Halcyon Yearbook (Swarthmore, PA)

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President- Elect Frank Aydelotte

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recommendation of always going along on an even keel and consider- ing matters from a jjroad, basic angle, rather than fly off half-cocked, because of immediate situations without considering the larger situa- tions. He always advised me to try to turn a bad situation into a good situation. I know a man in the Middle West whose tone of voice, geniality and genuineness draw men to him. In many respects he is much like Dr. Swain. He lavishes time, interest and inspiration upon the thou- sands of students with whdm he comes in contact. His judgment of men seldom if e ' er goes wrong, and this judgment was never sounder than when he said of his friend and former colleague, A great char- acteristic of Dr. Swain is his ability to find the good things in the people with whom he comes in contact. He believes that every one has a good side and tliat, if this is developed, it will crowd out the evil. Time after time, I ha e heard persons criticized in the presence of Dr. Swain, and almost invariably he would mention some good quality in that person. In all my life, I never saw a man more generous toward his fellow men. This could not mean that he indorses evil. On the contrary, I know of no man who hates sin more than he. He hates sin but loves the sinner ; because he sees in the sinner a person who can eventuall} ' see and do the good thing ' s in life. The strong man is not too sensitive. He does not assume that whene ' er he puts his best foot foremost somebody is going to tread on it. He is not looking for trouble. He is too busy to imagine that some- body lower down or higher up has it in for him. He plugs away at his work and lets the work answer for itself. The strong man deals little in post-mortems over past misdeeds. If he goes back again to the beginnings, it is that he may take a fresh hold, not that he ma} dig sometliing up that were better dead and buried. He wastes little time in repairing broken resolutions, and the spiritual ' oltage that might be fretted away in remorse he uses to drive himself forward. The strong man does things. He acts while others doubt. On absolute frankness he insists, and he cannot get along with an}- who ecjuivocate. He has courage and inspires courage, and he puts all bis strength into helping those whom he finds around him. Such a strong man is Joseph Swain. William Albert Alexander.

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t i wiiiw By Dnniei Chester French Engraved hrj Thnothtf Coir DEATH AND THE SCULPTOR THE PASSING OF THREE GREAT MOULDERS OF SWARTHMORE