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Alexandria's was a beacon tower, and Babylon's An image of the moving heavens, a log-book of the sun's journey and the moon'sg And Shelley had his towers, thoughfs crowned powers he called them once. I declare this tower is my symbol . . . W. B. Yeats HALCYON l959
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'I- A yea conten ormal1ty arthm eems flect R the r e unsp taI1O athy The p there e eva 5 II1 3.0 I' CH. ct1v d I ook 1 wer mm n llllt ICHI C to S21 COIIIP hall n 0 1 Hac n ant P warthm HZ OWC 1Sd rh ook 1 ofa s somewhat anomalous at Swarthmore Typ1cal1y the organ1zat1on college annual 1S s1gn1f1cant 1n 1tse1f transcendmg the bane of through 1lS rapport w1th the sp1r1t of an 1nst1tut1on But the sp1r1t of re IS not to be found 1n the football stands or 1n chorus 1ndeed, at t1mes lgnore the trad1t1onal togetherness wh1ch a yearbook presumes to CI' It IS felt 1nd1v1dually as a perslstent state of concentratlon sensed t ess clatter of a typewrlter 1n a challengmg sem1nar, or perhaps 1n n frustratlons wh1ch shroud the hbrary at 9 45 Its outward man1 a ser ous, self consc1ous concern, whether for 1ntegrat1on, athelsm, or 1llS o lem definltron IS always the 1nd1v1dual of organmng a yearbook around as many s1ngu1ar states of m1nd seats 1n Collectxon 1S at once frustratlng and challengmg It demands H 1OI1 of the role of th1s pub11cat1on and of the form 1t should take The n has met th1s demand by attemptmg to create rather than to record, 10 er than to 1m1tate The followlng p1ctor1al essay, constltutmg a rath n of the book IS a collectlon of moments and moods, mcldents and wh1ch taken together or even smgly mlght arouse an lmpresslon re he on ecullar essence of Swarthmore It centers not on artlcular 1nd1 P P the sp1r1t of the 1nd1v1dual IIS purpose 1S the creatlon of an 1mage 1mage are merged 1n the symbol of the tower, wh1ch g1ves the year HIC h Certalnly no Swarthmore student IS obl1v1ous to the trad1t1onary andmark h1s college experlence But that tower wh1ch looms most n the awareness of th1s 1nst1tut1on dwarfing entlrely IIS phenomenal S S 1I1 C HCC 1l'1 the tower of mtellect A lonely tower lt at once refmes and 1m vldual sp1r1t of Swarthmore As a symbol of human asplratlon t g1VCS mean1ng to the endeavor of consc1ousness and reason Yet r1ng 1n the 1nd1v1dual It tends to offset reallty, emergmg as a n construct of the self Eventually th1s absolute d1mens1on becomes a I' V IICTP test1fy1ng to the 1mpotence of structure over mean1ng retat1ve role revealed 1n essay form throughout the book the 1959 reflects the perspectlve of a graduatlng class Havlng reached a Slgfllfl 111 h1s ascent one at wh1ch he feels h1s foundatlons Shlflllflg the e senlor IS faced w1th a startlmg change 1n panorama Indeed, as h1s cted downward after four years, he cannot help but notlce that wmdled so much so that the tallest trees aga1n obstruct h1s v1s10n Carol Anders Edzto v 4.114 1 1 ,.,,,,,
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