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and wonder how four years could have been so consistently happy. But there have been too many good things in too many of our days here. The next time we say the traditional words, we will have a hard time accompanying them with the tra- ditional smirk. Now that this has been said, we will do our best to gripe until June. Present enlightenment and honesty not- withstanding, when we returned to Swarthmore in the fall of our junior year, everything that didn ' t look the same looked worse. The year moved along, as Swarthmore years have always moved since men and women have been allowed to talk to each other unchaperoned, through lawn, porch, commons, porch, and lawn. When we carried our suitcases back down Magill through the daffodils, Swarthmore looked about the same as it had when we first felt like we had never been away. But some of us knew that although nothing was objectively different, our junior year could best be characterized as a year of change. The contents of our Halcyon are in part devoted to this intangible metamor- phosis. There has even been a small revolution between the covers of the Halcyon. You will notice this as soon as you begin to look for the junior section. We have dispensed with the letter of year-book law in order to come closer to the spirit of Swarthmore life. We believe Swarthmore has an exciting spirit because its activities mirror student interest so well. The present Halcyon staff feels that activities and students are inextricably mixed and should not be separated in our yearbook. Because of this we have shown the picture of each member with one of the several activities in which he has participated. We hope our 1954 Halcyon is true to the spirit of Swarthmore in general and to that of our junior year in particular.
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FAREWELL 10 John Nason will be missed. His list of accom- plishments was as impressive as his physical bearing. Because of Swarthmore ' s small size we were for- tunate in that we knew him as more than a name- plate on an office door. We may forget that he is the man who tripled the alumni fund but we will re- member how he managed to combine a dry campus with a dry sense of humor. The fact that he gave direction to the educational program which was born under President Aydelotte ' s administration will be recalled along with his skill with a softball, an axe and a student council referendum. We will re- member the philosopher ' s clarity which manifested itself in his collection talks and his humility and gen- uine interest in people which prompted him to spend an occasional hour or so in Commons over a cup of rancid coffee. We were very sorry to see him leave and we envy the Foreign Policy Association their new prexy.
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