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If there is anything Swarthmore students have in common, it is frustration; the inherent frustration of learning and of trying to suc- ceed. The freshman enters suitably awed by the competition he faces, intellectually and socially, but with a secret confidence that his straight A ' s in high school really did mean ' something — that it will be the others, not he. who will get the B ' s and C ' s and unimaginable Ds and E ' s. Very few confirm these hopes; fewer, if any, do so without strug- gle. All must find some encouragement to keep at it — a group, a cause, a person, a study. Prote ' ge ' s and children of praise enter a fiercely competitive society in which praise is rarely deserved, more rarely granted. Will we, as one professor predicted, change radically in our years here only to slide back into our original opinion patterns? Will what we learn in books here prove inappropriate, useless, and, as James Michener warned us in Collection, nothing compared to the moral idealism we imbibe here? And will those physics exams really all be the same in 100 years ... or even ten? Each must find an answer to the new challenges and stresses, to the change in himself. The solutions are the diversity of Swarthmore, each contributing to the richness of the whole, to the impact on other students. So varied are the solutions that they cannot be character- ized by one pattern of tastes or appearances. A yearbook cannot depict the individual changes, the inner con- flicts and inspirations hiding behind the peaceful grey walls that greet the visitor. Pictures can only show the variety of solutions — the moment of relief celebrated at a pep rally, the creativity shared in the student art shows, concerts, and plays, the political conscience splashed on the bulletin boards, the irrational reactions of a group striving for rational perfection. Something keeps people here in spite of their frustrations. The something is the subject of this book. Monica Pannwitt
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