Swarthmore College - Halcyon Yearbook (Swarthmore, PA)

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There are certain centers of life at Swarthmore, certain cesspools of experience, certain sloughs of sensa- tion. If the academic is the pivotal center of it all, then a beer at Andy's, a prayer i11 Cloisters, a pool game at the fraternity house, a folk sing in Commons, or a stroll in Crum are all separate orbits. But if Swarthmore is not One Big Happy Family, if it is not even One Big Unhappy Family, we cannot find much cause for worry. If some of us Hnd that we prefer a con- cert to a football game, or even a book to a dance-if some of us prefer to string our lives upon one set of pegs and others of us on another set, we can't worry much. Even if the edges get too rough, the beards too shaggy, or the accoutrement too diverse-if, in other words, we find that we are not communicating-we don't clutch. Because, if anything, Swarthmore is an experiment, an experiment in which the data is never all in, where nothing is ever sure, where a square wheel may be better than a round one, a long path better than a short one-and the only way we can ever make it work is to try everything.

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