Swarthmore College - Halcyon Yearbook (Swarthmore, PA)

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tilcuon After welcoming back Prexy (the racing season at Agua Caliente having recently closed), school settles into a humdrum calm, to be punctuated by the announcement of the cessation of football rela- tions with Penn: the squabble over early morning service at the post office, and our share in the cele- bration of the 300th anniversary of Penn ' s arrival at the site of our fair city. The Hamburg Show comes along minus some of its old-time hilarity and distinctly fostering the more dignified and dramatic as is befitting to Cloth- ier. Then the Chest Drive hits our book-bills with surprisingly successful results. To this we may at- tribute the hearty turnout in the oldest of clothes at the Hallowe ' en Dancr soon after. The college enjoys many a hearty laugh during the entertaining talk which Louis Untermeyer gives over at the Meeting House. Later, Somerville brings to us another famous speaker. Edward Steichen, who lectures on photography. The spotlight now turns to the big event of the Fall — election — with its accompanying rumors, pre- dictions and betting. The only direct results to be felt at Swarthmore are the pitiful scene of two of our male students crawling down the asphaltum and the rumor that one of the boys has taken the betting so seriously that by cagey playing of the odds he has suffered but a S2 loss in contrast to the $12 loss which he would have incurred if Hoover had won. The boys cli max a successful season of Fall sports with a stirring victory over the girls ' hockey team in that mad scramble, the annual Greek Gods game. The new year brings in changes: a renovized and chisel-proof rushing plan is adopted by the men ' s interfraternity council; sedate upperclass girls are seen being ushered in the dining-room by lowly Freshman women — a part of the girls ' student gov- ernment plans: and outside help is quite successfully rendered at one of our fraternity initiations. Phoenix circulation is booming, thanks to the bounty of letters being turned in by Swarthmore ' s most recent betterment group. A long period of rest, relaxation and sunshine, the only remedy for Spring fever, follows, only to be unduly interrupted by mid-semesters and subse- quent agony. Here ' s to 1933! 21 ■ ®i SJa a. u w

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iStilcyon itb iSotu notfjer Jpear I I ( fND now another year has come — and gone, f - bringing with it improvements and growth, and leaving behind echoes of experiences old and new. The high-spots of the last twelve months come readily back to mind. It ' s Spring and 1932. Meyer Davis ' orchestra helps to introduce a brand new custom in the form of the first Spring Prom. As proof of the growing tendency toward the new and better, the restlessness of the co-eds in relation to the problems which women ' s fraternities present comes to a crisis in the decision to abandon fraternal activities for the ensuing year. These revolutionary changes break forth in the sport realm as well. This time it ' s golf — just an- other step forward in the movement to keep our females lithe and supple. The earliest attempt of our youngest at big-time stuff comes through in the form, of the first Fresh- man Show to be held in Clothier. As usual, variety is the keynote of the performance. Achievements — In connection with maintaining our publicity standard the recently formed L. I. D. chapter crashes through. Three of the rowdies ac- tually attract enough notice to be arrested. A more remunerative effort is shown by four members of our track team who carry home from the Penn Re- lays a watch apiece in token of the one-mile cham- pionship. Ye merrie month of May is ushered in with the proper celebration, this year a Robin Hood pageant. Every old-time character makes his appearance from the enthusiastic bugler who manages somehow to conquer Worth Tower, to the great white horse hired for the occasion. Our beloved Seniors are rewarded according to merit for their four years ' struggle; some merely receive a diploma; a few, scholastic awards at com- mencement; while the infamous are given affection- ate tokens of esteem parceled out during class day exercises on Prexy ' s lawn. Summer improvements noted include a rearrange- ment of the library to permit the library staff to enjoy a reasonable amount of quiet, a superfluous amount of yellow paint adorning renovated Parrish rooms, and the taking of initial steps in transform- ing Collection Hall into a recreation center. :s i£X- ■■IP 20

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Clothier — North East Entrance