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Swarthmore College - Halcyon Yearbook (Swarthmore, PA)

 - Class of 1954

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Page 15 text:

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After long and highly secret deliberation, the Board of Managers offered the position as president of Swarthmore College to Courtney Craig Smith, then a member of the de- partment of English Literature at Princeton University. Since Mr. Smith has been here, we have been sometimes delighted and sometimes devastated by his wit; we have been charmed by his allowing us occasionally to devote our Thursday minute of silence to James Thurber or T. S. Eliot; and impressed by an interest in us which seemed to extend well beyond the coll of duty, to attendance at seminars and long days spent in discussing political and ethical problems; we feel strong admiration for a well-marked strain of enlightened idealism. Courtney Craig Smith ' s beliefs about the goals of education and the responsibility of the educated person are couched neither in terms of uncrystallized good will nor of skeptical discouragement. We have strong confidence in his goals for Swarthmore and confidence in the probability of his reaching them. HAIL n

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Page 14 text:

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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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