Swarthmore College - Halcyon Yearbook (Swarthmore, PA)

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English: Goaaard Wright Hicks Spiller Klees Auden Pommer

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THE FflCULTV No matter how complete the equipment of a college, how progressive the ideas of its administration, without a competent and truly interested faculty it could never take a place among the ranking institutions for higher learning. We. as Swarthmore students, have every right to be proud of our faculty. With almost innumerable accomplishments, honors, and degrees to their credit, they form an outstanding and brilliant group, many of whom have gained no mean recognition and distinction in their various nelds. In any moment of doubt concerning the value of a liberal education in these times, its place in a world at war, a few reflections about our faculty seem to offer convincing proof that we are right in choosing to be here at Swarthmore. The will- ingness with which they have undertaken the heaviest ' part of the burden of an accelerated program even in addition to war work which many are doing outside of college, their continued interest in each one of us as an individual, plans for changes and improvements in the curriculum— these would not be realities but for a belief that the education which we are receiving is important and vital. Looking back over that part of our college life which is behind us. the ten- dency is often to remember the good times, the fun we had. When we really stop to think, however, the picture changes. We see altered outlooks which new fields and new facts have given us, intellectual curiosity spurred by new ideas and ideals, plans for the future which perhaps had never entered our minds before we arrived as Freshmen. These are the contributions of our professors, contributions which cannot fail to have an influence upon our whole lives.

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