Swarthmore College Alumni Bulletin 1938-10-01

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ALUMNI OFFICE

SWARTHMORE COLLEGE

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Published Periodically by the Alum ni Association in the interests of

SWARTHMORE
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C O L L E G E a n d he r A L U M N I

S W A R T H M O R E , PA ., O C T O B E R , 1938

ALUM NI

OFFICE

TAKES

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D U T IE S

President Aydelotte Welcomes Opportunity for Wider Alumni Contacts
O T H the college and its alumni are to be congratu­
lated on the appointment this year o f an Alumni E x ­
ecutive Secretary and upon the progress made in other
directions toward carrying out the recommendations o f
the Joint Committee o f Alumni, Board, and Faculty
which functioned under the chairmanship o f Henry C.
Turner during the years 1935-1937. The idea o f an Alum ­
ni Secretary is not a new one; it antedates the appoint­
ment o f this Joint Committee; the need o f such an officer
had been discussed here for many years and such an ap­
pointment was contemplated in 1930. But the days o f the
depression were not propitious for the expansion o f our
administrative staff; indeed we have made great econo­
mies in administration since 1930 in order to maintain the
teaching staff o f the college at full strength and effective­
ness.

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The fact that we are able to begin now is due to the
work o f the Joint Committee and to the initiative and
generosity o f various alumni who, characteristically, re­
fuse to allow their names to be mentioned. There is a
great deal o f work for our new Alumni Secretary to do.
The college has not kept in touch with its graduates, es­
pecially with those living at a distance from Philadelphia,
as closely as we should all like, but I am confident that
the new Secretary and the Alumni Councils will in this
respect inaugurate a new era and that we shall have a
stronger college as a result.
The number o f our graduates has more than doubled
during the last twenty years. Our students are drawn
from a wider area than was formerly the case, and when
they return to their homes they are less easily able to keep
track of events in Swarthmore. N o educational institution
that is alive can stand still, and in these days educational
developments are more rapid than ever before. W e want
our graduates and former students to understand the

changes which are taking place here, to discuss them, and
to have a part in bringing them to the greatest possible
success. The Garnet Letter, the alumni Homecomings
which are now being planned, the organization o f new
alumni groups, the meetings o f the Alumni Councils, pos­
sible extensions o f the brilliant work begun by the 1938
Alumni Scholarship Committee, and other activities which
are being initiated by the Alumni Secretary should pro­
duce this better understanding and more intimate coopera­
tion. The first alumni Homecoming, to be held this year,
is planned on a modest scale. I hope that this event will
in the future come to occupy more time and that there will
be opportunity for our graduates to inspect college
buildings, attend lectures and seminars, visit laboratories
and libraries, and attend at least one meeting for the
serious discussion o f college problems. Such an annual
event should interest our graduates, and it would at the
same time render a real service to the members o f the
college staff.
I know that the good wishes o f the whole alumni body
will go to the new Secretary, Carl Dellmuth, in perform ­
ing the duties o f his office. H e has been left to a large
extent to make his own job. I hope he will not turn out
to be a typical Alumni Secretary, and I am sure that he
will not. Every opinion that I have heard is to the effect
that we have made an ideal appointment. It has wisely
been arranged that his work will partly be with under­
graduates, in the fields o f vocational guidance and place­
ment. H e will thus as time goes on know the graduates
o f the college individually as most alumni secretaries do
not and can not from mere contact through the mail. I be­
speak for him the cordial cooperation and support of the
whole body of alumni and ex-students of the college in his
task o f directing the wonderful loyalty and affection
which Swarthmore men and women feel for the college
into the most effective and most unified channels o f work.

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FO U N D ERS
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H O M E C O M IN G
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The Garnet Letter

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Alumni Organization Functioning As Planned
T N O time in the history o f the College has the
Alumni Organization been in a more advantageous
position to do a real service to the college than at the pres­
ent. In starting its third year as the governing body o f
the Alumni, the Joint Councils are working on many
problems which when solved will bring the graduates into
more intimate touch with the College.

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The re-election o f “ D ick” Slocum, ’22, to the presi­
dency o f the Association is a fortunate appointment in­
deed. D ick’s enthusiasm and sound judgment have been
an inspiration to those o f us who are concerned with a
closer College-Alumni relationship, and having the assur­
ance o f his leadership for another year means further

O F F IC E R S

President
Richard W . Slocum, ’22, Philadelphia, Pa.

Vice-Presidents
Allin H. Pierce, T9, New York, N. Y ......
Jean Fahringer Biddle, ’30, Chicago, 111.

Treasurer
Abby Mary Hall Roberts, ’90, Swarthmore, Pa.

W e are now scattered over each of the forty-eight

progress toward our goal.

states and nineteen foreign countries; and our personal
However well qualified our leaders may be, their efforts
are not enough. It is rather the responsibility of every
Alumnus to join in the general effort to secure a durable
Alumni organization. Only with enthusiastic support, with
an active source o f ideas and constructive criticism can
the association be of value either to the Alumni or to

lives bear little resemblance to the good old days when
Parrish Hall was the center o f the universe. Difficult in­
deed, is the problem o f reaching intimately all of our
Alumni and in turn having them make some contribution
to the College— but that is precisely the goal we have in
mind.

the College.

MEMBERS OF THE ALUMNI COUNCIL 1938-39
MEN

W OM EN

Zone I

Zone I

* Raymond K . Denworth, ’ l l , Swarthmore, Pa.
* William W . Tomlinson, ’ 17, W ynnewood, Pa.
^Joseph H. Willits, ’ l l , Swarthmore, Pa.
Francis D ’Olier, ’07, Moorestown, N. J.
*Thomas B. McCabe, T5, Swarthmore, Pa.
Charles C. Miller, Ejc ’86, Riverton, N. J.
*Thomas S. Nicely, ’30, Lansdowne, Pa.

Frances Maxwell Atkinson, ’ 17, Lansdowne, Pa.
*Mabel Sullivan D ’Olier, ’07, Moorestown, N. J.
Ruth V . Poley, ’ l l , Germantown, Pa.
*Anna O. Eberle, T3, Mt. Airy, Phila., Pa.
*Edith K. Andrews, ’97, Mt. Airy, Phila., Pa.
*Mary Ann Ogden Parrish, ’30, George School, Pa.
Hazel Davis Rowlands, ’07, Swarthmore, Pa.

Zone II

Zone II
Benjamin R. Burdsall, ’25, New Y ork City
H oward C. Johnson, Jr., ’30, New Y ork City
Clarence H. Yoder, ’20, Westfield, N. J.

Gertrude Bowers Burdsall, ’28, Port Chester, N. Y.
A lice Swedley Palmer, ’89, New Y ork City
* Elsie Knapp Powell, ’32, New Y ork City

Zone III

Zone III
Samuel Dean Caldwell, ’34, Washington, D. C.
Thomas R. Taylor, T 2, Washington, D. C.

Elizabeth Hallowell Bartlett, T2, Baltimore, Md.
Gertrude Jolis W inde, ’28, W aynesboro, Va.

Zone IV

Zone IV
Arthur C. Hoadley, E x ’02, Chicago, 111.
Spencer R. Keare, ’25, Chicago, 111.

Jean Fahringer Biddle, ’30, Chicago, 111.
Ruth Kewley Donahower, ’34, Cleveland, O.

Zone V

Zone V
Earl R. Thoenen, ’23, Darien, Conn,

Marguerite Drew Vedeler, ’20, Madison, W is.

* Members o f the Executive Committee

The Garnet Tetter

C A R O L IN E

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LU KEN S, ’ 98 R E T IR E S

Has Served College and Alumni for Forty Years

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N R E C O R D IN G the official retire­
ment o f Caroline Lukens, ’98, from
the position o f Alumni Recorder, the
Garnet Letter voices the hope of hun­
dreds o f Swarthmoreans that Miss Lu­
kens will continue to be an active part
of college and alumni life for many
years to come. Keen regret would be
felt by Alumni throughout the country,
if they thought that one o f the dearest
and most familiar ties which binds them
to Swarthmore were indeed broken. The
place which she has won for herself
goes far beyond any official appoint­
ment; it is a place which she will con­
tinue to fill in the hearts o f Swarth­
moreans, and which can be taken by no
one else.
Miss Lukens was born at Kulpsville, in Montgomery
County, and received her early education at Gwynedd
Friends School and Friends Central School. A fter grad­
uating from preparatory school she taught for six years at
the Sunnyside School in Ambler. Finding herself needed
at home, she gave up teaching and spent the next five
years with her family, and, when they came to live in
Swarthmore, she entered the college as a day student in
the class o f ’98.
Miss Lukens and Swarthmore seem to have suited each
other from the first. It is probable that in several signifi­
cant ways Miss Lukens represents the values and ideals
which formed the motivating force o f Swarthmore. T o
have known Miss Lukens at Swarthmore, to have seen
her at her work, small, determined, uncompromising in
standing for the things she believed in, yet, sympathetic and
with a fund o f kindly humor, is to have realized in some
measure the things which have made the College what it is.
Although she had come to Swarthmore intending to go
back into teaching, she accepted Dean Bond’s offer to be­
come matron and receiver of guests at the College. Many
of us will remember the Hamburg Shows, opening with
the familiar Faculty in Collection, with Miss Lukens set­
ting the platform in order. She had charge of the central
section o f Parrish, and she managed it with a devoted
energy which is still a byword among her friends who
were at the college then. From the first, she gave to
Swarthmore and to the principles o f the college an un­
swerving loyalty. Some people have achieved a superficial
popularity by acquiescing in any easy avoidance of rules or
principles. Miss Lukens chose to follow the harder way

o f commanding love and respect by
standing up for the things which she
believed to be right in spite o f any
temporary inconvenience w h i c h it
might cause her. Many an alumnus
remembers a day when Miss Lukens
shooed him off “ The Pet” or reminded
him to keep his feet off the furniture.
But the students have always recogn i z e d in her, “ Thee knows thee
shouldn’t do that,” the loyalty and de­
votion to the College which won for
her their loyalty and devotion as well.
In 1906, Miss Lukens was put in
charge o f the bookstore and postoffice,
then located opposite the telephone ex­
change on the first floor o f Parrish.
About 1918 she began editing the
Alumni Register and assumed the duties o f Alumni Sec­
retary, and by 1924 this work had grown to such pro­
portions that she devoted all her time to it. N o one, per­
haps, has had quite her opportunity to know the succeed­
ing generations o f Swarthmoreans. Certainly, no ordinary
person could have developed, as she did, that phenomenal
knowledge, always ready to hand, o f who was who,
whom he had married, and to what class he belonged.
W hat graduate, back for Alumni Day, has not experienced
a sinking feeling on seeing a once familiar face to which,
for the moment, no name is attached? But Miss Lukens,
with sixty classes to keep in mind, rarely, if ever, fails
with a name, and more often than not is ready with all
the circumstantial evidence. A nd hers is not merely a
cataloguer’s interest; she has always had a genuine wel­
come for her returning children, and has never been too
busy to greet them, discuss things with them, and make
them feel truly at home. Other things change, on the sur­
face, with the changing times, but the expression o f plea­
sure on Miss Lukens’ face when she looks up to see one
o f the Alumni returning after long absence is an unfailing
and heart-warming part o f home-coming.
N o account of Miss Lukens’ work would be complete
without mention o f the service she has done for the
Phoenix, both as Alumni Editor, and as a member o f the
Advisory Board, during the past twenty years. N or is
there any College organization which does not owe her
an immeasurable debt for her willing and invaluable ser­
vice in the compiling o f mailing lists and the checking o f
addresses.

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_____________ The Garnet Letter_________________________

A C T IN G

DEANS

A P PR A ISE

C L A SS

OF

1942

BY EDITH PHILIPS

BY EVERETT HUNT

The class o f 1942 is the first to contain students who

It is very difficult for me to try to convey to the readers

are in part financed and selected by organized alumni e f­

o f the Garnet Letter any impression o f ninty-five young

fort. The committee on selection found what other selec­

women whom I have never seen. T o Mrs. Blanshard they

tive agencies constantly find: it is easy to discover book­
ish students who are inept in human relationships, and
there are always plenty o f happy huskies who will never
grow intellectually, but the students who combine intel­
lectual power, social adaptability and physical vigor are
comparatively rare. The College greatly appreciates this
effort o f the younger alumni to send fine boys to Swarthmore, and it believes that the success o f the first attempt
warrants other groups in trying similar experiments.
Great advances have been made by the psychological test­
ers, but their score cards are not an adequate substitute
for intimate personal contacts. Alumni interest in select­
ing good boys for Swarthmore constitutes a living en­
dowment for the College. It is especially valuable in
periods o f economic stress when without scholarship
funds and assistance in selection, college entrance would
tend to become limited to comparatively few boys.

are already active and real personalities long before they
enter in September. N ext year I shall be able to share
this interesting experience of learning to know the class
as individuals before receiving the impact o f their arrival
in the mass. A t present they are names and numbers to
me with a few individual problems which are obvious from
the admissions correspondence.

This report is therefore

almost restricted by force to a recital o f facts and num­
bers. Probably the matter o f greatest interest to alumni
is to know how many o f their own children are entering
college this year.

There are four, both of whose parents

are Swarthmore graduates, and six who count one parent
as a Swarthmore alumnus.

O f sisters o f students and

graduates there are eight, making eighteen who have a
close family relationship to Swarthmore.

There are six­

teen Friends or children o f Friends, some, but not all,
belong also to the group

o f eighteen relatives.

The

The influence of the larger scholarships is not limited
to the direct recipients. Many excellent boys who are not
winners in the competitions have their attention directed
to Swarthmore and eventually arrive here as students.
This indirect influence has been felt in this year’s class,
and many o f the best students have exceptional interests

Friends’ influence is also noted in the fact that seventeen

beyond the range o f their classrooms.

center o f Quakerism in America. The others are widely

One boy has planned and superintended the construc­
tion o f a seagoing boat, another builds model steam en­
gines, another has developed a chain of ice-cream stores.
There are many more cheer leaders than can possibly be
prominent in one small college. The development o f mu­
sic in the secondary schools has been such that musical
skill no longer causes a boy’s virility to be suspected. F oot­
ball. basketball and soccer are well represented. Enough
managerships of high school teams are included to assure
the continuance o f managerial competitions, and all this
without the sacrifice o f men near the tops o f their classes.
Some o f the boys have traveled widely in Europe, speak
two or three languages, and are sophisticated, very sophis­
ticated, men of the world at eighteen. Others have their
roots deep in the soil of their native farms. Their chief
social interests have been with “ The Future Farmers o f
America.” Each of these groups needs to acquire some
o f the qualities o f the other. The son of the Persian
ambassador may learn to enjoy the boy who collects paint­
ings o f Iowa farm life, and the lad who has cultivated
languor in a boat at O x ford may come to appreciate the
energy o f the boys from California. Alumni who would

scattered in twenty different states.

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o f the Freshmen women come from nine different Friends’
schools.
About a third of the Freshman women come from
Pennsylvania, which should 'be expected from the historic

They are, if one can judge by letters, an eager and en­
thusiastic group with many special interests and talents
in science, music and writing; particularly writing. I
judge from reading the candidates’ letters and from the
interviews I have already had for 1939 that in four or
five years there will be a literary Renaissance in America.
It is also evident that more and more women students are
attracted to Swarthmore by the H onors W ork. W e hope
they will not see Professor Nason’s article in the Phi Beta
Kappa K ey Reporter which proves to his satisfaction that
the men are more successful in H onors W ork than the
women. It remains to be seen whether this new class will
take up the challenge o f John Nason and Virginia W o o lf
and vindicate its right to an education.

By appointment of the joint Alumni Councils, an Alum ­
ni Committee is giving study to the general problem of
homecomings at the College — and to a program for
Alumni Day in particular. Send your suggestions to the
Alumni Day Committee at the College.

The Garnet Letter________________________________ 5

THE

LAMBS

GO

TO

THE

SLAUGHTER

BY JOAN WOOLLCOTT AND MARION ROUS

There are few Alums who do not remember their first
days of that painful process, commonly known as “ Orien­
tation.” A better definition of this time could be a “ period
of delusion” followed by four years of orientation. Two
Seniors have written the following article, giving the

ing do the Seniors relax, eye the crowd with a benign
smile and murmur approvingly among themselves. W hen
approached singly they are charmingly helpful, but en
masse they are formidable. Unhappy the freshman who
sits in the druggie booth concealed when the Seniors con­
gregate for late breakfast and hash session is o n !

upperclass point o f view.
Freshman week is the yearly turmoil in which the up­
perclass wolves shake the mothballs out of their lambs’
clothing, and the lambs don wolfskins and all is joy. It
is the shoft time when a select handful o f last year’s jun­
iors (M ortar Board and Book & K ey) find themselves
objects o f respect and admiration to the entire under­

A n occasional academic note creeps in known as “ ap­
pointments with the deans and individual faculty mem­
bers,” after which it is a wise freshman who knows his
own program. A lso innumerable lectures of varying
lengths, all on or around the topic “ W hat Swarthmore
Should Mean to Y ou .” A nd then there is the picnic.

graduate personnel, namely the freshmen, who have safety

The picnic in the Crum Riding Circle, introduces a new
scheme for entertaining the freshmen, i. e. “ getting the

in numbers but mercifully are easily impressed.

class together” by means o f athletics in the form o f a

The beginning o f the week’s masquerade is Wednesday

softball game which disintegrates early into a mild form

registration when the arriving freshman totters in to face

o f chaos. It is, o f course, tradition for it to rain, also to

the long desk in the hall manned by Seniors, all exuding
charm and helpfulness. Anything may happen. He may
be introduced to his own mother, may be merely escorted
to a room on the top o f nowhere and abandoned with the
cheerful injunction to “ unpack,” or he may merely drift
about the hall clutching a small name label and pin (the

involve the seven plagues in the way o f mosquitoes,, but
occasionally tradition is not. There may even be enough
frankfurters to go around, accompanied by relish and/or
mustard ( “ Mustard for m ysoginists; relish is right” )
phenomenal in the annals of freshman week.
O f course it is not actually a week.

reward o f filling out registration cards) until pounced

from

upon by one of the wandering registration committee. A p ­

everybody.

Thursday to Monday.

The festivities last

Monday

night confuses

Traditionally an ominous announcement ap­

palling information proceeds from the Seniors along with

pears on the program sheet: “ entertainment under the

pearls o f wisdom and advice, but the wary freshman is

auspices o f the social committee” — a fact about which no

usually disconcerted by the nonchalance with which these

one has bothered to inform the social committee until
Monday afternoon by which time there is a paucity o f

upperclass mentors direct the program. Everybody seems
to get to the right places at the right times, but when
pressed for accuracy, the Mortar Boarder or Bookey
consults the small grimy program sheet which every fresh­
man is himself given anyhow, and murmurs something
about “ not sure, ask Louie.”
In the evenings we dance. “ Lo, the poor introvert!” He
hasn’t a chance. Though he does not have to cope with
the scintillating conversation o f the upperclass dance floor,
he is speedily initiated into the Placement W eek formula
by being forced to tell where he comes from, what his
major is and who he knows in Jersey City. Though this
is a trial to him, it is meat to the more socially inclined
for repeated enough times and with a sufficient accompani­
ment o f smile, it is the key to social success, though a
quick eye to your partner’s name is a help. Around the
walls the Seniors prowl, luring the unwary male into the
rhythmic throng, and urging the more modest maidens
to hideous deeds o f brazenness such as “ go ahead, ask him
to dance. Everybody does.” Only when everyone is danc­

ideas in the master minds o f the great who generally try
to forget about the whole thing.

I f conditions get des­

perate, they go to the lodges and play games. A spontane­
ous folk dance in the sacred and bulging hall performed
by seniors to the popping eyes o f the assembled freshmen
may herald the complete disappearance o f the upperclasses. It is the beginning o f the end. Tom orrow means
the reestablishment o f the status quo with the advent of
college life and the gay, friendly Seniors are no m o re ; only
the gloomy figures stalking silent and aloof into the mys­
terious recesses o f the Friends Library. Placement week
over, the year begins; sic transit gloria freshmundi.

The regular monthly luncheon of the Swarthmore Club
o f Philadelphia was held on October 5th, at the Univer­
sity Club.

This year’s president, “ Pete” Richards, ’27,

announced the attendance was the largest in the history
of the club.

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The Garnet Letter

ATHLETIC
The College and her Alumni have every reason to ex­

PREVIEW
Director o f Athletics and last year’s head coach, will assist

pect a good showing from each o f the four teams compet­

Elverson in an advisory capacity, and A very Blake, ’28,

ing in intercollegiate athletics this fall. For the first time

will have charge o f the freshmen.

in the past decade the outlook for the football squad is
particularly bright. Sparked by a new coach and a wealth
o f veteran material, the squad can be marked as a group
o f men who are out to raise Swarthmore’s football stock.
The only pessimistic note is the permanent loss of two key
men. Buzz Eberle, ’40, fleet halfback (eldest son o f “ T o d ”
and “ Nan” Eberle) suffered a compound fracture o f the
collarbone and will be lost to the team for the season. A t
the time o f the accident, Buzz was being counted on as
the team’s chief offensive threat. The other absentee will
be Izzy Sachs, ’40, last year’s regular center. Sachs has
fallen behind in his classroom work, and, although at
college, will not engage in football this year.
This year’s varsity will be coached by Lew Elverson,
last year’s freshman coach. In his undergraduate days,
Lew was the quarterback for Penn’s famous “ destiny
back field,” and in his senior year was given honorable
mention on several All-Am erican teams. Our new head
coach not only has the happy faculty o f teaching his men
the fundamentals o f the game, but at- the same time, per­
mits them to derive a great deal o f fun out of their efforts.
Elverson’s line coach will be Paul Stafko, another Univer­
sity of Pennsylvania alumnus who last year coached the
Junior varsity at his Alma Mater. Mark Macintosh, the

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particular

most part, will be composed o f men v h o will be serving
their third year on the varsity. Led by the outstanding Ed
Jakle, ’40, the team began its seven game schedule on
October 8 with Union at home. Other home games will
be Oberlin on October 22, Hamilton on October 29
(Founders’ Day) and Earlham, November 19.
In discussing the possibilities for the 1938 soccer team,
Bob Dunn, its coach, has issued the following statement:
“ W ith seven lettermen returning and the addition o f some
promising freshmen and jayvees, we can be optimistic that
the 1938 team will continue the fine standards of play set
up by its predecessors. Right now it looks as if this team
will be stronger than the 1937 Middle Atlantic State
champions.”
W hen speaking o f successful Swarthmore athletic
coaches, one can not help but place Bob Dunn near the
top of the list. Coming to Swarthmore in 1919 when soc­
cer was a virtually unknown sport, Bob has moulded no

FALL

1938
HOCKEY

CROSS C O U N T R Y

1 ............. away

......... .............. home

Temple

................... ...home

Ursinus

................... ..home

American U n iv....... away
Princeton
Oberlin

... .............. home

.................... ..home
Merion C. C ............ .. home

28

Oct. 29

squads.

Swarthmore Club . home
Lehigh

Oct. 21

Oct

varsity

strength should be its versatile backfield which, for the

....................... .home

Oct. 14
Oct. 15

junior

SCH EDULE

Gettysburg
Union

there were a number of promising candidates from the

SOCCER

FOOTBALL

DATE

Returning for the first practice on September 19 were
seventeen lettermen from last year’s team and, in addition,

Hamilton

................ . home

U. of Pa. ... ...............home
(1 P. M .)

American Univ. . ....home
Johns Hopkins .... ....home
Lafayette

Johns Hopkins ...... ..away

Lafayette

............ ....home

Beaver ..................... ... home

... ...............home
F . & M ................... .....away

St. Johns ............. ...away

Nov. 16

Cornell

...... ...............away

Stevens

...... ...............home

Rutgers

................ .....home

Brvn Mawr ......... ...away

Nov. 18
Nov. 19

Earlham

................. ...home

Haverford ... ...............away

W illiam & Mary

...home

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less than eight championship teams in the interim.

In

1919, ’20, ’21, ’25, Swarthmore took first place in the
Pennsylvania State League; in 1928 it was given a nation­
al rating as the only undefeated, untied major team in
the country; and in the last three years has been awarded
the Middle Atlantic States championship.
O f more importance than the championships won, how­
ever, has been Dunn’s ability to develop players while in
college.

It is the exception when an experienced soccer

player turns up at Swarthmore, but under a carefully de­
vised system, soccer brings more undergraduates into
actual competition than any other sport. A t the present
time, there are schedules for four different teams with ap­
proximately 100 men competing on these teams through­
out the year.
This year’s team will be captained by Gary White, class
of ’39, who is supported by six other returning lettermen.
In addition, there is a particularly strong group coming
up from the junior varsity and freshman squads. Swarth­
more has every reason to be proud o f its accomplishments
on the soccer field and we recommend that Alumni bend
every effort to see this team in action.

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CLASS OF 1942
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like to foster this gathering o f able and interesting boys
can help by sending information to the admissions office
as early in the year as possible.
A few days spent interviewing the students whom Dean
Speight and the committees of selection admitted last
spring deepens the realization o f the variety o f life which
centers in the campus.

There is the task o f deciding

whether the two-hundred-and-twenty-pound boy of six
feet and four inches ought to be made to fit the bed in
his room at Wharton, or whether the bed should be made
to fit the boy— a persistent issue in American education,
and now growing more acute at Swarthmore with a hun­
dred boys who measure over six feet.
Some parents have to be cautioned against allowing
a dangerous amount o f spending money, some have to
have scholarship funds added to their own severe sacri­
fices, while others have to be reminded that a college is
not a relief agency. Some boys come under the guidance
o f alumni parents, or o f older Swarthmore brothers and

The Cross-country team began its fourth year as a
varsity sport with a squad of twenty which includes five
members o f last year’s team, some sophomores who have
come up from the freshman squad o f last year, and a num­
ber of promising newcomers. Captain Ken Meader, ’39,
and his group are being moulded into shape by Coach
Townsend Scudder who has returned this year from a
leave o f absence. Mr. Scudder is largely responsible for
the existence o f the interest in cross country at the Col­
lege. Starting informally, with a small number o f men,
he joined them in the sport o f which he is a capable
participant. Enthusiasm grew until Mr. Scudder formed
them into a squad which is now taking its place with the
major sport interests o f the College.
As usual, the women’s hockey team looks forward to
a successful season. Not since the opening game o f the
1935 season has a Swarthmore hockey team met defeat,
but this year’s seven game schedule promises to o ffe r a su­
preme test if that winning streak is to remain intact.
Five members o f last year’s undefeated team have been
lost by graduation but the returning varsity material offers
an excellent nucleus for another winning aggregation.
The Freshman class has brought to the College a group
of experienced hockey players and the upper class women
will have to hustle to keep their positions.
May Parry, ’25, is again serving as head coach and this
years co-captains are Joan W oollcott and Alice Rickey,
both o f ’39. H om e games have been arranged for Friday
afternoons.

sisters, and others have never heard o f honors work, or
have come because o f or in spite o f it. Some come to
Swarthmore because they liked the oak trees along the
asphaltum and some because they had been told that
Swarthmore was the best Quaker co-educational college
within eleven miles o f Philadelphia. Several sons of uni­
versity professors have been able to tell the Dean all about
the curriculum. There are ardent reformers who expect to
remake the College immediately and take on the world
shortly after, and then there are a few as world weary as
Goethe when he said, “ In our youth we are confident that
we can build palaces for our fellow creatures, and when
it comes to the point we find it is as much as we can do
to get their dung hills out o f the way.”
The eighty-five boys in the class come from a far-flung
area, as can be statistically verified in the catalogue. Their
interests in engineering, the natural sciences, and the so­
cial sciences seem to be almost equally divided, with a
small number left over for the humanities.
During freshman week the boys and girls had their
speech recorded, their bodies examined, their foreign lan­
guages tested, their social aptitudes exposed to their class­
mates ; they were advised by professors, deans and upper­
classmen; they were entertained by churches, by Mortar
Board, Book and Key, and by each other, and were put
in as high spirits as possible for the arrival o f the soph­
omores. By the end o f the week they had acquired a
stirring loyalty to the numerals 1942.

8

The Garnet Letter

Benjamin W est Anniversary to be Celebrated
FO U N D ERS’ D A Y PROGRAM
1 :00

Soccer Game with Pennsylvania.

1 :30

Address by Frederic Newlin Price, ’05.
Friends Meeting House.

2:30

Football Game with Hamilton.
Alumni Field.

4 :30-6 :30

Alumni Tea Dance.
Collection Hall.

OCTOBER 29, 1682—
W illiam Penn, the great Friend, and first governor o f
Pennsylvania, landed at the little Swedish settlement on
the west bank o f the Delaware River. This settlement be­
came the oldest town in the province and is now the City
o f Chester— just four miles from the College.

OCTOBER 29, I860—
The Baltimore Yearly Meeting which met at the home
o f Martha Tyson decided “ that one o f the chief needs o f
the Society was a greater opportunity for the education o f
their children.” Under the leadership o f Martha Tyson
and Benjamin Hallowed- the idea of Swarthmore College
was conceived— the name coming from a suggestion by
Margaret Elgar Farquhar Hallowell, w ife o f Benjamin
Hallowed.

OCTOBER 29, 1909—
A large company met at the College in what was the
first celebration o f Founders’ Day. There took place at
that occasion, the planting o f two young elm trees. These
were lineal descendants o f the original under which W il­
liam Penn conducted his famous treaty with the Indians.
A t this meeting came the thought that “ it was pre­
eminently fitting for Swarthmore College to establish such
an anniversary. . . . for the great reason that it is the
College standing for the traditions and ideals for which
William Penn lived, labored and suffered.”

American paintings and sculpture, and president o f the
Ferargil A rt Galleries Inc. only supplements Fred Price’s
real interest— Benjamin W est. Swarthmore is fortunate
indeed to have Fred back for this occasion, for without his
influence, it is doubtful whether the present Benjamin
W est society would be in existence. A n exhibit o f W est
paintings will be arranged in Collection Hall and the W est
House will be open to all members of the Alumni for
inspection.
The first official event begins at 1 :00 P.M . when Swarthmore’s Soccer team entertains the University o f Penn­
sylvania on the Old Prep School Field. Coach Dunn once
again has moulded together a strong team and the Little
Quakers are counting on a victory over the Red and Blue.
A t 1 :30 P.M . the aforementioned address by Fred Price
will be given in the Meeting House.
A t 2 :30 P.M . the football game with Hamilton takes
place on Alumni Field. In last year’s meeting Hamilton
was victorious 20 to 13 and the Garnet will be bending
every effort to avenge last year’s defeat. O f particular in­
terest to the Alumni will be the fact that no admission
will be charged to graduates or ex-students o f the College.
Complimentary tickets may be secured at the Office of
the Alumni Secretary in the W est end o f Parrish Hall.
Immediately following the football game a tea dance
will begin in Collection Hall and will continue until 6:30
P.M . allowing ample time for the Alums to make their
individual plans for the evening.
Much interest has been shown in this Founders’ DayHomecoming Day program and the College is preparing
to entertain a large body o f her Alumni. I f you haven’t
done so already, make plans now to meet the old gang on
the campus on Saturday, October 29.

CAROLINE A. LUKENS
(Continued from Page 3)
But with her many duties, she never forgot the main
purpose o f the College— the welfare o f the students. To
them she has always been an adviser and a friend, and
her sympathetic interest has kept her mind young and
alert to the problems o f people around her.

OCTOBER 29, 1938—
Swarthmore once again will acknowledge the debt she
owes to the Founders o f the College in a series o f exer­
cises marked by a special tribute to the life and paintings
o f Benjamin W est, on this the 200th anniversary o f his
birth.
Headlining the ceremonies will be an address by Fre­
deric Newlin Price, ’05. Being a writer on art, dealer in

Miss Lukens is making her home in W est Chester, at
the Hickman Friends Boarding Home, and it is safe to
say that many of her friends will soon learn that the short­
est road back to Swarthmore leads through W est Chester.
But we feel sure that for many years her first home will
still be at Swarthmore, and she will be waiting there to
welcome back her foster children, the entire Alumni A sso­
ciation.