Swarthmore College - Halcyon Yearbook (Swarthmore, PA)

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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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If is as hard to conceive of a car without wheels as of a college without its adminis- tration. And yet there is no group on campus more maligned, resented, or more often com- plained about. This year Miss Cobbs gained two assistants: Miss Wing and her secretary Mrs. Lingham. Dean Hunt received his baptism under water at the Freshman Serenade. When the annual fall massacre was postponed, the eager, frustrated Swarthmore male could not wait and stormed Parrish to be greeted there by torrents of aqua pura. Dean Hunt ' s wet reward for his valiant efforts to end the hostilities resulted in a severe cold which lasted all week. For the first time since the founding of the College in 1864, girls were allowed to re- main out until 1:30 A.M. on Saturdays. Typi- cal comments were, Twelve-thirty is bad enough with Swarthmore women, and From Swarthmore men I prefer to escape at 12 o ' clock. One member of the Administration was reported to have said, What can they do by 1:30 that they couldn ' t have done by 12:30? Miss Cobbs delivered an interesting lec- ture to Pittenger and Palmer women on The Evils of Sneaking In and Out. She emphasized the refusal to return to the Sunday Open House. However, the administration ' s recog- nition of the inadequacy of our informal facilities led to the construction of the new yellow Somerville Recreation Room on the site of the Women ' s swimming pool. The Men ' s Executive Committee, the official governing body for the men, feverishly looks over the affairs of the college ' s male popula- tion. Its subsidiary, the Men ' s Judiciary Com- mittee, arraigned, indicted, prosecuted, convicted, and sentenced the less law-abiding of the gay young blades of Wharton and 9 TO 5 13