Swarthmore College - Halcyon Yearbook (Swarthmore, PA)

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Prosser Gifford Assistant to the President Edward K. Cratsley Vice-President Joseph B. Shane Vice-President Susan P. Cobbs Dean of Women William C. H. Prentice Dean ot Men ADMINISTRATION Although to the undergraduate the Administration some- times seems to operate solely to restrict the individual's freedom with rules and regulations, its concern is essentially to keep the college solvent, staffed with a faculty, and stocked with students. The Administration is largely responsible for maintaining and improving an environ- ment where the student can best develop and learn. Managing a community that comprises about 300 acres, at least fifty

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To the Members of the Class of 1957: Classmates I would like to call you, for we both entered Swarthmore in September of 1953. For me they have been the four happiest years of my life. You are not likely to feel that strongly about your experience, but I hope, and suspect, a time will come when you will hold your four years at Swarthmore apart as something rather special. This Halcyon is to deal, I have been told, with changes in Swarthmore's students and faculty and plant. We have been aware of changes, of course. But those who welcomed us here Qand in a sense they go back many generationsj and those whom we in turn have welcomed and will welcome, know now, as we will come to know, how much we are really a part of a continuum. Time present and time past, T. S. Eliot says, Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present, Eliot goes on to say, All time is unredeemable. Would we want them redeemed, these four years? There have been moments of sadness, of tragedy even, that we could not have wished. And there have been problems all the while: these I think we did wish, for we knew that we couldn't learn the ropes Qon whatever level we want to think of themj without working on the knots. But I suspect what we'll remember best will be the good times, which were sometimes big times but oftener little times. Even the Halcyon won't bring all of them back to mind, but come back to the College and we'll talk over these old times whenever you think you're about to forget. COURTNEY C, SMITH President

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John M. Moore Associate Dean Gilmore Stott Associate Dean Deborah Wing Associate Dean Robert D. Cross Director of Admissions building, many trees and bushes, about 200,000 books, 100 faculty members, and some 900 students is an impressive under- taking. Working between Scylla and Charybdis-the alumni and the students -both of whom have varying and inter- esting ideas on how to run Swarthmore, the Administration carries on in spite of occasional marshmellows in the cole slaw and crises among the students over snack bar prices. Charles B. Shaw Librarian