Swarthmore College - Halcyon Yearbook (Swarthmore, PA)

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The Board of Managers THE BOARD OF MANAGERS The Society of Friends has always been deeply interested in education. After the unfortunate separation in 1828, it was over three decades before our group of Friends, realizing the necessity of an institution of higher learning, founded Swarthmore College. I do not go back to these earliest days but was near enough to them to realize the sacrifices that were made and the tremendous effort necessary to raise the money, from our comparatively small group, to finance the undertaking. Some members of our present Board shared in the early struggles of the second generation in carrying forward the idealism of the founders. Four generations of Managers, Presidents and Faculties have now given of their devoted interest to produce the Swarthmore of today. I would wish that all of you who are enjoying the advantages here provided would desire to so use your opportunities that you may be fitted to take an honorable position in the world and become able and unselfish servants of the common good. With the background of struggle and endeavor on the part of those who have made Swarthmore possible, is it too little to expect the some high standard from our students, graduates and under- graduates alike? The academic program, a strenuous one, the serious matters of life put well to the front, a happy well ordered life which comes with honest work, plain living and high thinking — this would be my hope for you as members of the Class of 1935. CHARLES F. JENKINS, President, Board of Managers. Philadelphia, 12th Mo. 17th, 1933.