Swarthmore College - Halcyon Yearbook (Swarthmore, PA)

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PRESIDENT JOHN NASON September 1940 found Swarthmore College with a new president. John Nason stepped into the shoes of the man whose name had become a symbol of all that is true liberal education in the modern world. Faced by this difficult task. President Nason has proved himself to be a man of such timber that the college looks forward confidently to the continuation of those principles and policies established by Frank Aydelotte to make Swarthmore the liberal college extraordinary. John Nason joined the Swarthmore Philosophy Department in 1931, and also served from that time as right-hand man to President Aydelotte in the administration of both the college and the Rhodes Trust. As a teacher, thinker, and administrator, he is dominated by a sense for clarity, perception, and efficiency, springing from a combination of Middle-Western and Quaker backgrounds, and cemented by a broad and thorough education. President Nason is a realistic and active internationalist, with a confidence in Swarthmore and its educational aims and methods. The youngest president Swarth- more has yet seen, he has brought with him a new energy and a prospect of further growth to the college, during a time of doubt and uncertainty. John Nason has taught Swarthmore to believe that it is the college ' s opportunity to create an order ... in which all that is most precious and most important in our way of life can triumphantly advance into a better world.