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ALUMNI ISSUE, APRIL, 1969 SWARTHMORE COLLEGE BULLETIN President Courtney Smith 1916-1969

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Let me say just a few words about what I think we have been doing. In my letter of December 31 to the faculty I asked our entire college community to consider conscientiously and imaginatively the best way to achieve what I believed to be the underlying conce rns of SASS, and of the Admissions Policy Committee. I believe that we have been doing that. Certainly the Faculty, for which I can speak as its presiding officer, has responded in a way that has deepened, if that were possible, my pride in Swarthmore. The fac- ulty met in long sessions — last Tuesday afternoon, Thursday night, Friday afternoon, Saturday morning, Saturday afternoon, Sunday morning from 10:00 a.m. to close to 2:00 p.m., Sunday afternoon from 3:30 to close to 7:00 p.m., and Sunday night from 8:30 p.m. to around 3:30 a.m. I strongly support the actions we have taken as a Faculty, and I will strongly support them to the Board of Managers. I am confident that the Board shares the same con- cerns and values that have motivated the Faculty in their actions. I feel so sure of the Board ' s feelings on these matters that I am ready to begin immediately to implement the actions we have taken. What we have passed is clear to those of us who have passed it, and we believe it to be right. Details will have to be worked out as we go along, just as the details of our Commission on Educational Policy actions have to be worked out every day, but I see no problems in that if, as I am assuming, we can work in a spirit of mutual trust. I hope. I pray, there will not be any who will seek to sow distrust. I am sure SASS will want to work in a spirit of mutual trust, and I call on all of us to seek and work through the good will in each other. It is possible to use our present problem to escalate real and fancied differences that exist in any community. But I would ask all of us never to trade Swarthmore ' s excel- lence and fineness and readiness to hold itself open to new light, from whatever source it comes, never to trade these things for slogans and hate. It took no force to bring about comprehensive proposals for the development of Black Studies. It took no force to bring about our fundamental and comprehensive examination of ourselves in our Commission on Educational Policy. Students were involved, were urged to be involved, in all of these considerations. I realize that some now sneer at the CEP, but there was no sneering in the Danforth groups and no sneering in the referendum which students were urged to take in order to express themselves on every one of the recommendations. We have lost something precious at Swarthmore — the feeling that force and disrup- tiveness are just not our way. But maybe we can see to it that this one time is only the exception that proves the rule. For certainly if there are any who now think that direct action should be used eventually for Black Studies, or Student Week, or any proposals that might come out of Student Week or the Sex Rule, or Dormatory Autonomy, or the University City Science Center, or the Physical Education requirement, or beards, or for the question of institutional structure and the governance of higher education — let me digress to say that I am far from convinced that the prevailing system of govern- ance of higher education in America is right for our times, though I am also far from convinced that it is wrong; and I am very conscious of the fact that the abstractions of the description of government of our own particular institution always obscure the basic humanity and warmth with which we try to proceed; but these matters of gov- ernance are in my opinion ones for deep and thoughtful consideration — then, to come back from my digression, I have to say that I seriously doubt their faith in education, and in the educational process, and I would be saddened to see further acceptance of force as against those qualities of trust and tolerance and humility and anti-totalitar- ianism and willingness to seek the good in others — those qualities that have made, and can make, Swarthmore especially ' fine ' as an institution. This is the text of President Courtney Smith ' s statement to the Faculty and Students of Swarthmore College, presented at 1:45 p.m. on January 13, 1969 in Clothier Memo- rial Hall. It was President Smith ' s last public address.

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