Swarthmore College Alumni Bulletin 1939-02-01

l h e Garnet Letter
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IN A D M I N I S T R A T I O N

Harold Speight Now Dean of College; Everett Hunt, Dean of Men
T A Meeting of the Board of Managers held on
December sixth, Everett L . Hunt was appointed
Dean of Men to succeed Harold E . B. Speight who was
promoted to Dean of the College. The change became
effective on February first.

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President Frank Aydelotte explained that Mr. Speight
would handle all the general duties formerly incorporated
in the Dean of Men’s office and, in addition, would take
over some duties which have formerly been handled by
the President s office. The Dean of Men will maintain
direct contact with the student body and will also be chair­
man of a standing committee which will be in charge of
men s admissions. The balance of the committee as ap­
pointed by the President is as follows: Professor Town­
send Scudder of the English Department; Professor Scott
Lilly of the Engineering Division; MT. N. O. Pittenger,
College Comptroller, and Mr. Carl Dellmuth, ’31, Alumni
Executive Secretary.

HAROLD E. B. SPEIGHT
Dean of the College

M e m b e r s of
this
committee
will interview applicants
at
Swarthmore and
in various cities.
Carl
Dellmuth
will be able to in­
terview many ap­
plicants in h i s
visits to various
Alumni
Clubs
such as Philadel­
phia, New York,
Washington, Chi­
cago, and other
s m a l l e r groups
throughout
th e
c o u n t r y . The
Committee w i l l
continue the poli­
cy of filing re­
ports on various
aspects of the ap­
plicant’s develop­

ment, his school
record,
intellec­
tual ability, social
adaptability,
physical v i g o r ,
and personality.
Dean Hunt
states, “Entrance
requirements i n
all colleges have
been changing in
the direction of
greater flexibility
in recent years.
The college cata­
logue, of course,
lists the specific
requirements but,
in general, it may
be said that the
object of the com­
mittee will be to
select t h e best

EVERETT L. HUNT
D ean of Men

men who apply, the men who will make the best College.”
This is the second time in the history of Swarthmore
that the duties and responsibilities of the Dean of Men’s
office have increased to a point where additional person­
nel was required. The postion of Dean of the College
was first created in 1922 and was filled by MT. Raymond
Walters. A t that time Detlev W . Bronk, ’20, became
Dean of Men and held the post until 1929 when he left
to become head of the Johnson Research Foundation in
Philadelphia. He was succeeded by Alan C. Valentine,
21, who left in 1932 to become master at Pierson College
of Yale University. Mr. Valentine is now President of
the University of Rochester. In the same year Mr.
W alters was promoted to the Presidency of the Uni­
versity of Cincinnati and his post was left vacant until
the recent appointment of Mr. Speight.
Mr. Speight was graduated from the University of
Aberdeen in 1909 and has had a career of diverse and
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ALUMNI CLUBS O FFER N E W $2,000 SCHOLARSHIPS
New York, Washington, Chicago and Philadelphia
Start Campaigns
H A T our Alumni are still interested in maintaining
high standards for the student body is evidenced by
the recent announcement of four scholarships to be of­
fered this year by the Alumni Clubs in Philadelphia, New
York City, Washington, and Chicago. Competition for
these awards is open .to men who will be entering College
in September of this year, and the basis of selection will
be similar to that of the Rhodes Scholarships, with em­
phasis on character, scholastic aptitude and physical
vigor. Each scholarship will carry a stipend of $2,000.00
payable at the rate of $500.00 during each of the four
undergraduate years. Completed applications must reach
the College not later than M arch 15, 1939.

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In making a public announcement of these awards, the
officers of each Club have impressed their members with
the importance of contacting all secondary schools in
their areas for the purpose of securing the highest pos­
sible type of applicants.
In addition to the recently announced Club scholarships
there will be available four Alumni ■Regional Scholar­
ships. Two of these awards will be granted male appli­
cants from Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Michigan, and the
remainder to prospective men students residing in New
York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland or
the District of Columbia. The basis of selection is iden­
tical with that for the Club Scholarships and likewise the
stipend will amount to $2,000.00 payable over a four
year period.
F o r those younger Alumni who took such an active
part in this drive, it will be gratifying to know that the
three Scholars thus chosen are proving worthy of the
honor conferred upon them. F irst semester grades have
just been completed and show these men to be consider­
ably above the average for the class.
One of the group, William Dietz, came to us from the
P. S. DuPont High School in Wilmington, Delaware.
Bill has made both the Freshman Soccer and Basketball
teams, is a member of the Debate Board and took part
in the Freshman-Sophomore debate. His claim to fame
as a histronic figure centers around his taking part in the
Little Theatre Club’s production, “Judgment Day.” Dietz
is a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity.
Carl Sautter, son of Beatrice Victory Sautter, ’07, was
graduated from Germantown Friends’ School. Carl, al­
though only seventeen years old, stands over six feet in
height and while handicapped by a knee injury has played
on the Freshman Football and Basketball teams. His

literary interests have found an outlet by his work on
the Phoenix and his trying out for the Halcyon advertis­
ing staff. He is a member of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity
and the Swarthmore Glee Club.
Dean Trautman, the third of the Alumni Scholars, did
his secondary school work at Cleveland Heights High
School in Ohio. Trautman, like Dietz and Sautter, took
part in Elmer Rice’s play, “Judgment Day.” He has also
been active in the production department of the Halcyon,
the Swarthmore Glee Club, and is a member of the execu­
tive committee of the Freshman Class. Last fall he was
a star half back on the Freshman Football team and dur­
ing the winter months has been working out with the
Lacrosse squad. Dean is a member of Phi Delta Theta.
It will be remembered that at this time last year a
group of younger alumni under the leadership of W ill R.
Alstaetter, ’33, inaugurated the idea of' Alumni scholar­
ships. It was a surplus in their drive for funds, plus a
gift from an anonymous donor which now makes possible
the four Alumni Regional Scholarships for 1939.
Supplementing the Alumni Awards for men will be
two Alumnae scholarships. The first of these gifts comes
from the combined efforts of the Alumnae Clubs in Phila­
delphia and New York and bears a face value of $500.00.
This award is offered to daughters of Swarthmore Alum­
na and the selection is made by the Women’s Open
Scholarship Committee.
In addition, the Pittsburgh Alumnae this year announce
a $200.00 award to be granted to a woman in the metro­
politan Pittsburgh area. Selection in this case will be
made by the Dean of Women and a member of the Pitts­
burgh Alumnae Club. The list of applicants for both
these awards was completed January 1, 1939 and an­
nouncement of the successful candidates will be made
sometime in the spring.
In no way can the Alumni better perform a real service
than in this matter of bringing the College to the atten­
tion of desirable prospective students. Much has been
written on what constitutes a good college or university
and in every case it has been agreed that the most impor­
tant ingredient is a student body— mentally and physically
healthy, with its roots deeply bedded in character and sin­
cerity. To these Alumni and Alumnae groups who have
given of the time and money to attract the finest possible
student material in the-ir community the Garnet Letter
sends a message of sincere appreciation.

T he Garnet Letter

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SW A RTH M O RE’S N E W E S T BOARD M EM BER
H E N Tom McCabe came
up from Selbyville, Dela­
ware to enter Swarthmore with
the Class of 1915 he was good
raw material in the literal sense
of that adjective. B i g , goodnatured, likeable, immature— but
with keen native intelligence—
he was one of those Freshmen
Dean Alexander used to point to
and say, “That fellow has all the
ear marks of a useful citizen.”
And “A lex” was a good judge
of men.

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I f you scratched the countrycured skin of young Tom Mc­
Cabe you found a leader whom
it did not take fellow-classmates
long to recognize. In his Sopho­
THOMAS B.
more year he was elected presi­
dent of his class. Before “Prexy”
Swain handed him his diploma and the Ivy Medal in
June 1915 he had won a wide assortment of honors in­
cluding varsity athletic team letters, managerships of stu­
dent publications, membership on the Y.M .C.A. Council
and the Student Government Committee and election to
the Book and Key Society. These laurels were but in­
dicative of the wider recognitions Tom was to receive in
his career beyond the campus.
Few Swarthmoreans have achieved more rapid or more
conspicuous success than Tom McCabe. When our own
country was drawn into the World W ar maelstrom Tom
enlisted as a private in the United States Army. He ad­
vanced to Sergeant, Lieutenant and finally Captain in the
Ordnance Corps. Returning to civilian life he began the
career which has led him to the presidency of Scott
Paper Company, to membership on the Board of Direc­
tors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia and to
the Chairmanship of that Board. In October 1938, in
recognition of his ability and his interest as an alumnus,
he was elected to the Board of Managers of Swarthmore
College.' These and other recognitions have come to this
Swarthmorean who is still on the upward slope of life
and yet far from its summit.
Tom McCabe’s business career is one in which Swarthmoreans may take pride. Beginning as a clerk in the Sales
Department of Scott Paper Company he became in turn
Assistant Sales Manager, Sales Manager, Director, Sec­
retary, Vice President and President of his company. He
was but 34 years old when, following the death of Arthur
Hoyt Scott (Swarthmore ’95), Tom was elevated to the

leadership of Scott Paper Com­
pany.
Tom McCabe’s success in busi­
ness has been the result of abili t y, definiteness o f purpose,
physical and mental energy— and
most of all a philosophy which
regards business as an opportun­
ity for broad usefulness to
others.
Entering Scott Paper Com­
pany he found a business guided
b y traditional principles which
squared with his own concept of
usefulness, for Arthur Scott be­
fore him had established the com­
pany on a firm foundation of
“Consumer W orth”. In 1927,
when
Tom McCabe became its
McCABE, '15
president, Scott Paper Company
did an annual business of less
than $6,000,000. Today this volume is at the rate of
$19,000,000 and gives every promise of continuing its
rapid momentum— sufficient tribute to the soundness of
principles which actuate it.
Believing that a business can travel only as far as
strong men can carry it, the company which Tom directs
la)rs particular stress on the personal development of the
men and women who make up its numbers. Many indi­
viduals, including a group of Swarthmore graduates, have
advanced to positions of importance and responsibility
under such a program of Man-building.
In these days when business organizations generally
have become targets for so many critical shafts it is gratifying to find an enterprise, directed by a Swarthmorean,
whose value to the public and to its own people has been
so conspicuous. Scientific research has been extensively
employed to improve the quality of its products and to
help lower costs. W ith increasing volume and lower costs
prices have steadily declined.
Its wage levels are higher by some 10% than the aver­
age for the twenty-five major industries of the United
States. Its personnel policies are far-sighted and progres­
sive. It has provided employment, even during depression
and recession years, to increasing numbers of employees.
Today it employs approximately 1200 men and women
and not since 1921 has a single one lost a day’s work for
want of orders.
Such a record is its own tribute to sound management.
To Tom McCabe as president and guiding spirit of to(C ontinued on P ag e 7)

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MID-SEASON

REVIEW

OF

ATHLETICS

BY TOWNSEND SCUDDER

IT H the second half of the college year getting
under way, it can be said without fear of contra­
diction that the athletic teams have met with unusual suc­
cess during the first half of their intercollegiate schedules.
Without further comment, let us look at the records to
date.

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Football ......................................
5
Soccer ............................................ 5
Cross Country ............................... 3
Women’s Hockey ........................ 8
Men’s Basketball (incomplete) 9
Women’s Basketball
2
Men’s Swimming
1
Women’s Swimming
“
—
Totals 33

Ties

Losses

1
1

1
2
3

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3

%
.833
.714
.500
1.000
1.000
1.000
.250

9

.786

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The football team for the first time since the fall of
1929 turned in more victories than defeats. This year’s
squad loses only four men, which, along with some prom­
ising freshmen candidates, means that the outlook for
1939 is even brighter. Lew Elverson, head coach, and
Paul Stofko, line coach, deserve much credit for this re­
markable showing, but a willing group of able performers
made possible the recovery following a long Swarthmore
football depression.
Bob Dunn’s soccer team missed a championship by the
margin of one goal but managed to turn in a brilliant
season which was topped by a victory over a strong Penn
team. For the first time in three years, the Cross

Country suffered more than one defeat, yet managed to break
even with three victories and a like number of defeats.
It will be an occasion of considerable consequence
when the women’s hockey team finds itself faced with
their next defeat for it will be the first since the early
part of 1935. Since then the Garnet lassies have come
through with a string of 29 games without defeat.
A recapitulation of our varsity sports program during
the fall shows 21 victories, 2 ties and 6 defeats, a record
which could draw the envious glances of many another
college.
The winter sports program has not, as yet, reached its
conclusion but every indication points toward a commend­
able showing. Women’s basketball has scarcely begun its
schedule but has turned in 2 victories and no defeats
while the women’s swimming team has yet to have its
first meet.
A t the present time the men’s basketball team is in the
midst of a 21 game winning streak and 9 of these vic­
tories have been chalked up during the current season.
Never in the history of Swarthmore College has a basket­
ball team established such a record. The entire squad is
composed of juniors which means top notch basketball
for another year to come.
Slightly less successful has been men’s swimming with
one victory and three defeats but with the most difficult
part of the schedule completed, it is expected that they
will show as many victories as defeats by the end of the
season.

How do these athletes do it? I have often wondered
myself. Perhaps the answer is that so large a number of
the students in college are athletes in the broad sense of
the word. They play for the fun of it; they don’t over­
emphasize or specialize. W ith only 330 men to draw on
and berths on fourteen intercollegiate teams to fill, a
really broad participation in sports inevitably exists.

ED JAKLE, '40, Football Captain

And for these students— those on varsity teams and
those who just play — for all these young people on
Swarthmore’s rural campus, I am sure the sky looks
bluer, a happier state of well being is enjoyed, and studies
are more stimulating and full of interest because of a col­
lege policy based on the theory that play is for all, and
not just for the few. The following address delivered on
the occasion of the National Collegiate Athletic Associa­
tion meeting in Chicago by Mark Macintosh, Director of
Athletics, goes to show, I believe, how really seriously the
College takes its physical education program.

BILL RELLER, '40, Basketball Captain

T he Garnet Letter
“Just about every
college president
in the land has
sometime or other
waxed warm i n
public utterances
a b o u t the very
high educational
value of athletic
sports. Only those
presidents m ean
it who practice in
their b u d g e t s
what they preach
in their speeches.
Since President
Frank Aydelotte
of
Swarthmore
College spoke at
the National Col­
legiate A th le tic
Association convention in New Orleans in 1937, many
educators have been asking these questions: Does Swarthmore have the answer to the athletic evils which have
been bothering colleges for the past twenty years? Are
sports worth their salt?
Here are four pertinent sentences
Aydelotte’s New Orleans speech :

from

President

There is a solution of the whole athletic problem.—
It is not the tame policy of abolition of intercollegiate
athletics, which takes the heart out of games and tends
to do away with discipline and training. — It is not a
policy of restriction of any sort; it is instead a cure for
the evils of athletics by providing more opportunities for
athletic sports maintained for the sake of students, rather
than the policy of recruiting students for the sake of the
athletic teams.— It is a policy of athletics for all,'wisely
arranged so that every individual shall have his chance.”
Here is what we do for the 350 men students at
Swarthmore College. It is compulsory during the first
two years for every able-bodied man to participate in
some form of individual and some form of team sport for
all three seasons— fall, winter, and spring. In the last two
years of college the students may elect to participate in
the sports program. From last year’s attendance records
it was found that 90 per cent of the upper two classes
took part in sports on this elective basis.
Sports are organized in three different ways; namely,
intercollegiate, intramural, and class sections. In inter­
collegiate sports Swarthmore has a “ freshman rule” which
prohibits freshmen from playing on varsity teams. There­
fore, in the following fourteen intercollegiate sports,
there are varsity squads, freshman squads, and in some
cases third and fourth squads: football, soccer, cross

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country, basketball, swimming, indoor track, winter soc­
cer, indoor tennis, fencing, baseball, lacrosse, outdoor
track, tennis, and golf. Last year 67 per cent of the men
in college took part in intercollegiate sports.
Intramural sports are those played between organiza­
tions within an institution. A t Swarthmore five fraterni­
ties and two non-fraternity groups play in leagues and
tournaments in the following sports: touch football,
swimming, basketball, indoor track, and soft ball.
Every afternoon those men not in intercollegiate or
intramural sports have the opportunity to enter organized
groups in the following sports at different seasons of the
y ear: touch football, soccer, tennis, swimming, basketball,
fencing, boxing, wrestling, badminton, handball, squash,
soft ball, track, horseback riding, and golf. Free greens
fees are provided for the students at a local golf course.
Ninety-five per cent of all students took part in the en­
tire sports program last year.
It takes facilities, staff, and money to carry on such a
program. Facilities include two ordinary size gymna­
siums, one large fieldhouse 100 yards long by 40 yards
wide, seven clay and two wood tennis courts, two football
fields, two touch football fields, two soccer fields which
become lacrosse fields in the spring, one baseball diamond,
one swimming pool, one outdoor and one indoor cinder
track, and many extra turfed areas for informal games.
On the staff are four full-time and eight part-time men
who coach sports and administer the program; one parttime physician who gives all men medical examinations on
entering college and at the beginning of each sports, sea­
son ; and three men who are part-time trainers, equipment
men, and janitors.
The costs are as follows :
Salaries for instruction and administration..........$17,000
Schedules, equipment, etc............................................... 18,900
$35,900
Here is where the money comes from :
Gate receipts (football $1000, basketball $10 0 0 )....$ 2,000
Student Athletic Fees ................................................... 6 700
General College Budget ................................................. 27,200
$35,900
The cost per capita for 350 men students is a little over
one hundred dollars per year, of which the’ general col­
lege budget pays for $78, and student fees and gate re­
ceipts contribute $25.
b rom the comptroller s office I found that for last year,
exclusive of the costs of administration, buildings and
grounds, dining rooms and dormitories, the total costs for
all academic departments divided on a per capita basis
came to $480 per student. This means that our adminis( Continued on P ag e 8)

T he Garnet Letter

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AROUND TO W N

W IT H

T H E ALUMNI CLUBS

BY CARL K. DELLMUTH, '31

LU M N I G R O U P S throughout the country have
been unusually active during the past few months.
W e have enjoyed our monthly luncheon with the Men’s
Club in Philadelphia, and the attendance has been consid­
erably above average for the year. Pete Richards, ’27,
president, has looked as important at the center of the
speaker’s table as he did a few years ago in the center of
Swarthmore’s line. The original Pep Boys, Morris, Isaac
and W alter Clothier never miss . . . Charley Miller finds
no difficulty in locating Howard C. Johnson, Jr. near the
head table . . . Ed Bassett, Perc Parrish, Marshall Sulli­
van and Hugh Den worth have a special corner for repar­
tee, while George Ploughman, Snorky McKeag, Ted
Widing, Tom Nicely, Frank D ’Olier drift around looking
for an argument with Leonard Ashton, Sewell Hodge,
Bill Tomlinson or the younger group of Dick W illis, A1
Hood, Harry Sprogell, Chan Turner, or Jack Skinner.

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Next day we were in company with seventy or eighty
charming ladies of the New York Alumnae Club. W e
were too embarrassed to do much looking around but did
manage to see many celebrities. At our table alone there
were folks like Grace Biddle, ’97, Club President Auguste
Knaur, T5, Nina Volkmar Powell, ’33, Ida Bush, ’20, Gert
Burdsall, ’28, and Ethel A. Post, TO. It was cold that day
but the folks from the ’80’s and ’90’s weren’t going to
stay home. Alumni councillor Alice Smedley Palmer, 89,
Esther Cornell, ’91. Maud Milles, ’88, Harriett McDowell,
87, Josephine Tilton, ’86, Phebe W illis, ’90, and Eliza W illets, ’93, were in fine spirits. W e saw in one corner Eliza­
beth Stubbs, Virginia -Raebeck, Elizabeth Mims, Ann
Lapham, Alice Fernsler, and Doris Eppinger, all of ’38,
suggesting to the waiters that “Youth must be served.”
W ith that remark the meeting broke up and all went
Christmas Shopping.

And then we saw the Washington group on the eve­
ning of October 14th. The occasion was a well attended
dinner at the Cosmos Club. Thanks to Tom Taylor, 12,
and his committee, over one hundred were present. Some
old timers like Mr. and Mrs. T . Janney Brown, ’88,
George B . Ferrier, ’96, and Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Hall, 99,
along with Roger B . Farquhar, ’00, stayed the full
time (Roger is the only three time football captain in
Garnet history) . . . Tom convinced brother Andrew Tay­
lor, ’09, to come along with his wife . . , Ed Cavin put in
an appearance principally to find out how his son was
behaving back at college . . . Jimmie Stone was a grand
toastmaster and Connie Wickham, ’l l , was good to see
again. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Eagan, both of ’20, managed
to keep their classmate Leon Henderson from being lone­
some missing his literary colleagues, Bob Kintner, ’31, and
Drew Pearson, T 9, who were detained by business . . .
The F ix boys, C liff, ’26, and Bob, ’29, along with W alt
Studdiford, ’27, were full of questions . . . Sally Stidham,
’32, Adelaide Emley, ’.31, Elizabeth Thompson, ’35, and
Caroline Yerkes, ’37, reminisced with Dean Caldwell, ’34,
John Nixon, ’35, Paul Oehmann, ’36, and Gordon

The following week we landed in Boston where Frank
and Mitzi Christian, ’31, had arranged a program at the
Sheraton, (and very good spaghetti, too). Yes sir, Joe
Melick, ’14, had come all the way from Worcester . . . Ma­
rion Roberts, ’l l , had just finished his twenty-fifth season
as football coach at Brockton High, and Ann Baily Daw­
son, ’90, admitted she hadn’t been on the campus since
graduation
. . . Bill McCune, ’31, was annoyed at having to
o
explain to his new wife why classmate Ellen Fernon con­
tinuously referred to “the good old days . Elizabeth New­
comb Rayner, ’31, Anne Chapman Booth/ ’32, and Mar­
garet Walton Mayall, ’25, each brought an “outside man,”
but the Mayalls were proudly displaying their recent book,
“Sundials” which has brought much favorable comment.

Straka, ’37.
On December 2nd we travelled west to Pittsburgh.
Howard Eavenson, ’92, was the most considerate host
imaginable. Bill Muller, ’98, saw us for lunch but couldn t
make the dinner which brought forth such old faithfuls
as Grant Dibert, ’91, Mr. and Mrs. W alter Rittman, ’08,
and TO, Ann Thompson Wainwright, ’28. Caroline Atkin­
son Alford, ’09, represented the Newell Alfords, and Mr.
and Mrs. Bill Neuenschwander sat next to Jean Marsh,
‘25, and Elizabeth Jackson, ’03. Don and Jane Spangler,
’29 and ’31, left the family in time to meet Mort Drake,
’29 and all were joined by Jack Beck, ’37.

A few days later we were in New York, and this time
the party was strictly stag! Henry Turner and Clement
Biddle, Sr. added a dignity which comes only from mem­
bers of the Board of Managers. Ben Ludlow, ’32, who
has busied himself telling Bennie Goodman and others
how to arrange things, spent a pleasant few minutes at
the piano. The singing indicated, however, that the former
Glee Clubers had failed to put in an appearance. Charles
McDowell represented the class of 7 7 and Colonel Sam
Stewart answered the call for ’03. Bob Lewine, ’34,
headed the younger contingent and Dan Sinclair, Howard
C. Johnson, Jr., and Julian Cornell talked of the halcyon
days of the late twenties and early thirties. Dave Shoe­
maker, ’24, and Ben Burdsall, ’25, took charge of affairs
from the head table while W alt Krider, ’09, and Jim
Melick, G6, told about the football teams in the old days.
Allin Pierce, T9, is the able president of the New York
Men’s Club. At the moment, they are busy on their schol(Continued on P age 8)

The Garnet Letter

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VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE INAUGURATED FOR MEN
Alumni Secretary’s Office to Help Place Seniors
.F P A R T IC U L A R interest to many alumni has been
the recent development of a vocational guidance
and placement bureau at the college for men students.
V ocational work for women is being continued by Nora
Booth, ’32, who inaugurated the women’s program last
year.

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In establishing a plan of operation for the first year,
we decided on a simple program rather than a complex
one which we might not be able to follow through to
fruition. Care is being exercised that the work does not
evolve solely into the employment agency phase, although
it is one of the aims of the office to help our senior men
to permanent employment wherever possible. A second
aim is to locate summer positions for the underclassmen
which will be of some practical assistance when they are
later seeking permanent jobs.
In order to achieve these ends effectively from the stu­
dent’s point of view, it is necessary to see to it that he
himself does some thinking on the subject and, at the same
time, has an opportunity to ask for what help he needs.
Both the junior and senior men have available general
literature on the various employment fields as well as the
opportunity to come to the vocational office for a personal
interview at any time. However, it is largely left to them
to take the initiative and develop resourcefulness, for we
feel it is only by this method that we can make this a
valuable experience for them.
By working with the men as soon as they enroll as
freshmen, the guidance work will assume three phases
through the four undergraduate years. First, it will lead
to the selection of a course of study which will, as much
as possible, be able to help fit them for their life after
graduation. Secondly, study will be given to the general
type of work for which they are best fitted and, in the
last stages of that consideration will come the attempt to
arrive at some specialized job of their choice. In this
connection, the faculty point of view will be given due
consideration and will take the form of recommendations,
based on their observance of the student in the classroom.
Thirdly, with the emphasis on the technique of finding a
position will come that phase of guidance which will re­
sult in the seniors going out to interview employers on
their own. During this time, they will have had practical
advice from men already in the various fields who will
address them in informal seminars.
The Alumni have been and can be of unestimable help
in this program. These vocational seminars which are be­
ing given for the first time for the junior,and senior men
are being conducted almost entirely by alumni of the col­

lege. O f equal significance is the help which can be ren­
dered in notifying the alumni secretary of any available
openings in positions for which our seniors might apply.
We are being contacted by quite a few companies but we
are anxious to spread our services as far as possible. For
the undergraduate, we are concerned with summer em­
ployment and, wherever possible, we are looking for the
kind of job which has or can have some bearing on the
general type of work the student is preparing to do after
graduation.
Some of the alumni have already talked to the senior
men during their Christmas and mid-year vacation. The
enthusiasm as shown in both conversation and increased
interest would indicate the value which the men place on
the opportunity to discuss “business” with these alums,
and the suggestions which are received are proving ex­
tremely practicable. W ith the continued assistance of our
alumni, it is certain that vocational guidance and place­
ment will become a most successful part of undergraduate
life.

NEW BOARD MEMBER
( Continued fro m P age 3)
day’s Scott Paper Company belongs much of the credit
for this record of accomplishment and worth. I f you
were to ask Tom himself to explain his company’s suc­
cess he would talk to you about sound principles adminis­
tered by able men. But principles and men need compe­
tent direction if they are to fulfill their purposes. An
organization is still the elongated shadow of a big man.
Tom McCabe, in many undertakings has proved himself
such a man.
To alumni of Swarthmore, Tom McCabe’s election to
the Board of Managers of the College is particularly gra­
tifying. His active interest in the college has expressed
itself in many ways. A few years ago he established an
award (now known as the McCabe Award) to be con­
ferred each year on the outstanding senior engineering
student. He played a prominent part in bringing to com­
pletion the recent Alumni Association reorganization pro­
gram and served as the first chairman of the new Alumni
Council.
As,an individual, Tom McCabe measures up to the fine
pattern of well-rounded manhood which Swarthmoreans
like to regard as their ideal. He has indeed been a useful
citizen whose accomplishments entitle him to a leading
place on the Varsity of Life.

T he Garnet Letter

8

CHANGES MADE IN ADMINISTRATION

AROUND TOWN WITH ALUMNI CLUBS

( Continued, fr o m P ag e 1)

(Continued from P ag e 6)

broad interests. He spent a year as assistant professor
of logic and metaphysics at Aberdeen and then served
in the ministry in England and America until 1927.
From 1927 until the time he came to Swarthmore in
1933, he was at Dartmouth College, first as professor of
philosophy, and later as professor of biography. From
1933 until 1938 he served as Dean of Men and has re­
turned to his new position from a six months leave of
absence spent in Europe.
The present Dean of Men, Mr. Hunt, is a product of
the State of Iowa. He received his A. B . from Huron
College in South Dakota in 1913 and his Doctor of
Literature from the same institution in 1938. He was
instructor in debate and oratory at his alma mater for
five years. In 1918 he transferred to Cornell to become
an assistant professor in public speaking. In 1926,
Swarthmore obtained his services as professor of rhetoric
and oratory. He filled the office of Dean of Men
temporarily during 1932-33 and then spent the next year
in research at the University of Edinburgh. In addition
to his new duties as Dean of Men, Mr. Hunt will continue
as a professor in English, a post he has held since 1934.

MID-SEASON REVIEW OF ATHLETICS
( Continued fr o m P a g e 5 )
tration appropriates to the men s athletic department 16
per cent of the amount appropriated to all academic de­
partments.
Without having comparative data from other schools,
I suspect that Swarthmore would be classed in the upper
bracket of colleges which spend freely for sports. The
natural questions arise here: Are sports worth what we
spend on them? Are they worth their salt?
Our administration thinks so, for there has been no
curtailment of the program this year, but rather an ex­
pansion, in that we have added fencing as an intercolle­
giate sport, and have increased the number of our inter­
collegiate basketball squads from three to four.
From a recent personality study of 20,000 young people
in the United States made by Dr. Henry C. Link and 80
other psychologists, it was very definitely concluded that
of all subjects and activities, group games and sports con­
tributed most to the development of wholesome personali­
ties ; that having healthful, wholesome fun was important
in more ways than one. These psychologists found that
rather than being a lucky accidental possession, a whole­
some personality is largely the result of good habits and
skills acquired in group activities, and at the very top of
the scale of these activities definitely come games and
sports.”

arship drive with Jim Chapman, ’27, W alt Timmis, T 7,
and Ed Palmer, ’06, taking an active part.
Late in January we had a delightful time at the Friends
House in Montclair. For a long while our North Jersey
group has felt it could maintain an organization entirely
independent of New Y ork and from the number present
at their tea, it would seem they might now qualify as a
unit of no mean proportion. Marshall Taylor, ’04, and
Dutch Yoder, ’20, made possible this get together and ap­
proximately eighty alumni defied stormy weather to be
present. Virginia Gillespie Viskniskki, ’98, and her daugh­
ter, Janet, ’35, were much interested in seeing so many
old friends, among them Alice Lippincott Booth, ’99, and
daughter Helen, ’31. Jim and Gretchen Kelly, ’34 and
’36, came with Harold and Betty Vaughan Berry, ’28,
and Sally Percy Rogers, ’27. Eleanor Runk Reppert, T9,
was on hand with four of her six daughters, while Roy
Baum, ’27, and John Atlee W hite, TO, added their classes
to the many represented. Chris Bockius, 10, identified
himself as Caroline Lukens’ favorite nephew, while Ruth
Feely, ’38, represented last year’s graduating class.
W ay out in Chicago on February 4th, we travelled in
company with Dean Everett Hunt. President Clem Bid­
dle, ’31, had made luxurious preparations at the Parkway
Hotel and quite a few of the western alums had dug their
way through the record breaking blizzard to be on hand.
Bob Testwuide, ’31, had come all the way from Sheboy­
gan, Wisconsin and on the way down had joined Jim
McCormack, ’36, and wife. Arthur Hoadley, ’02, sat next
to Carroll H. Sudler, ’88, while at the other end of the
dining table were Dave and Genie Harshbarger Lewis, 32
and ’33, Louis S. Walton, ’32, Frank Porter, ’33, and
Babs Schiller Spiegel, ’33. Ed Hollingsworth, T3, brought
the whole family and seemed to have a good time. Tom
Jones, ’36, Dave Goldsmith, ’38, and Betty Blair, ’35,
shook their heads over the new generation and talked of
the good old days. Bob Lindahl, ’27, announced the estab­
lishment of the new W estern Club Scholarship and after
some very interesting remarks by Dean Hunt, the meeting
was adjourned. Conspicuous by their absence were Jess
Halstead, T 8, and H arry Olin, T9. H arry was slightly in­
disposed and Jess was out of the city on business.
Yes sir, meeting with alumni groups has been lots of
fun and we hope to have cause to visit many others in
the future. In addition, we have seen many graduates
back on the campus, and each mail brings some word of
those living at a distance.
In a few days we will have occasion to be with the
alumni in the Baltimore area. It is significant that ap­
proximately seventy-nine years ago a little company of
Friends assembled in that city and conceived the idea of
Swarthmore College.