Swarthmore College - Halcyon Yearbook (Swarthmore, PA)

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Frances B. Blanshard, Dean of Women € ■ WHAT WE ALL WANT „„ , ,„„. temporary writer, is to be quite sure that there is something which makes it worth while to go on living in what seems to us our best way, at our finest intensity. If you find this in college, you will have gained e best that it can give you. Frances Blansharp. ■THE COLLEGE STUDENT of today can take nothing for granted. Society is not waiting to offer him, on his graduation, a variety of ap- pealing opportunities. Men will not take him at his own valuation. His future, so far as his happiness and his usefulness is concerned, will depend upon something more than technical com- petence and specific training, important as these are. The questions which he will have to answer, sooner or later, are searching questions. Has he learned how to accept and measure up to responsibility? Has he learned how to cooperate with others, avoiding self importance and undue sensitiveness, and appreciating the best points in people very different from himself? Has he realized that man does not live by bread alone but remains unsatisfied unless he discovers the intangible w ' ealth which is hidden in his heart, the capacities which place truth and beauty within his reach? Life will press for an answer to these ques- tions. Harold E. B. Speight. Harold E. B. Speight, Dean of Men

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■ AT A TIME like this, when those who figure in the pages of the Halcyon feel a justifiable pride in their achievements in college, it is good to remember that what a person is and what he is going to be are more important than the things that he has accomplished hitherto. The successes and failures of college life are very real at the moment, but their permanent value is the effect which they leave on mind and char- acter. Life offers many opportunities to turn early failures into eventual success, and, alas, to turn early successes into failure. The dreams which a shy student dreams in college may mean more to him and to the world than any definite achievement which his friends or his teachers are able to measure and record. This is no reason for undervaluing achievement in the ex- amination room or on the athletic field or in any other of the thousand ways in which under- graduate life tests intelligence, character, and physical prowess. But it is a reason for courage in defeat, for humility in victory, and for a large tolerance toward those who do not fit into any conventional mold, whose achievements the coarse finger and thumb of college standards may have failed to plumb, but who may for all that have a contribution of great value to make to the world. Frank Aydelotte. ■ THAT WAS AN architect with a vision and great sense of propriety who placed over the portals of his handsome high school, in a nearby town, the motto. Enter to Leam. Go Forth to Serve. I never pass without admiring the archi- tectural monument he has raised and then tlie eye falls and lingers on his stimulating message which will endure as long as one granite stone rests on another. I would have wished our early architects might have carved an inscription such as this over Swarthmore ' s portals. But I know this thought and wish filled the hearts of the founders and that hope of its fulfillment sur- rounds each successive class as it goes forth. May this then be the message of the Board for the Class of 1936. Render your service with brave hearts and level heads and their by-products of high courage and common sense. With sym- pathy for the ills of mankind, its mistakes and shortcomings. With understanding begot of what you have learned. With faith in the Eternal Goodness of God. When your turn comes, as it will in a few fleeting months, to close Swarth- more ' s doors behind you, may you in full measure Go Forth to Serve. Charles F. Jenkins. Frank Aydelotte President Charles F. Jenkins, President of the Board of Managers

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Blanshard Brooks Brewster Creichton Dresden Dunn MacLeod Goddard Manning HEADS OF DEPARTMENTS BRAND BLANSHARD A graduate of the University of Michigan in the class of 1914, Dr. Blanshard received his M.A. from Columbia in 1918. his B.S.C. at Oxford in 1920, and after fulfilling the requirements of Ph.D. in 1921 at Harvard, he returned to Mich- igan as assistant professor of philosophy. In 1925 he came to Swarthmore as associate profes- sor, advancing in 1928 to a full professorship. ETHEL H. BREWSTER Miss Brewster was graduated from Swarthinore in 1907 and received her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. In 1916 she came to Swarthmore as assistant professor of Greek and Latin, becoming associate professor in 1923 and professor in 1928. At present she is chairman of the division of the humanities and of the committee on fellowships. ROBERT C. BROOKS Robert Clarkson Brooks, Joseph Wharton Pro- fessor of Political Science and head of that department, holds degrees from Indiana and Cornell Universities. Recognized as an authority on political parties, democracy, and Switzerland, he has written several books on these subjects. Recently he has received the honorary degree of Doctor Rerum Politicarum from the Univer- sity of Berne. H. JERMAIN CREIGHTON Dr. Creighton received his A.B. and M.A. degrees from Dalhousie University. Halifax. From 1908-1910 he held the Royal 1851 Exhibition Science Research scholarship. He took his M.S.C. at the University of Birmingham. After studying at Heidelberg, he received his D.S.C. from the Federal Polytechnic, Zurich. In 1912 he came to Swarthmore after lecturing at Dalhousie, and In 1923 became head of the chemistry depart- ment. ARNOLD DRESDEN Having received an S.M. d egree from the Uni- versity of Amsterdam in 1903, Dr. Dresden ob- tained his Ph.D. in 1909 from Chicago University. He taught mathematics at the University of Wisconsin from 1912 until 1927 in the sub- sequent capacities of instructor, assistant profes- sor and associate professor, and came to Swarth- more in 1927. He has been president of the Mathematical Association of America. ROBERT DUNN Mr. Dunn, coach of soccer and baseball, re- ceived his B.S. degree from Temple University. In 1925 he became an assistant in the physical education department at Swarthmore. He was made an instructor and acting head of the de- partment in 1931. Last year he became an assistant professor. HAROLD GODDARD Dr. Goddard has been an institution at Swarth- more for a quarter of a century. Graduating with an A.B. from Amherst in 1900, he added llie M.A. and Ph.D. degrees to his title in 1903 and 1908 at Columbia. He began his career as instructor in mathematics at Amherst, then joined the English staff at Northwestern, and in 1909 came to Swarthmore as professor of English literature, which department he now directs. ROBERT B. MacLeod Dr. Macleod received his A.B. at Magill in 1926 and his M.A. the following year. As a recipient of the Moyse Travelling Fellowship he studied in Germany in 1928. After getting his Ph.D. at Columbia, Dr. MacLeod became instruc- tor of psychology at Cornell in 1930 and came to Swarthmore as head of that department in 1933. FREDERICK J. MANNING In Dr. Manning we find a combination of soldier and scholar. Graduating from Yale in 1916, he continued his study, which was inter- rupted by military service in the field artillery. In 1919 he returned to academics, becoming an instructor at Yale until 1925, when he received his Ph.D. In that year he came to Swarthmore as assistant professor of history, and in 1931 reached his present status as full professor. g