Swarthmore College - Halcyon Yearbook (Swarthmore, PA)

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There is no such thing as the Swarthmore any more than there is such a thing as the Swarthmore student. The small co-educational college located eleven miles southwest of Philadelphia today no more resembles the college that stood here thirty years ago than that college looked like the one of 1870. The college that the senior from New York sees is not the college that the freshman from Evanston sees. The turkey and the frat man, the athlete and the aesthete, the engineer and the English major-all will agree on a few points: Swarthmore's a madhousef' It ain't what it used to be, It's not what I ex- pected. But ask any of them the important question, the question, What, after all, IS SwarthmoreP , and they clam up like a college president on the question of free love. We've put this year book together on the as- sumption that Swarthmore is, after all, something fthough God knows whatlj and that it is something more than just a name or a physical plant or even a Gestalt inside your heads and ours. We've put it to- gether on the assumption that if we cite enough of the names and enough of the letter, maybe some of the persons and the spirit will get in too, the assump- tion that if we expose enough of the surface, maybe we can expose some of the underbelly too. Because if there isn't such a thing as the Swarthmore, at least there is a Swarthmore, something that we all come back to at the end of vacations, something we set our bearings by. And it is to this Swarthmore that we dedicate our book.

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