Swarthmore College Alumni Bulletin 1940-02-01

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Volume IV

Number 2

February, 1940

THROUGH THE U. S. MAILS WITH GUN AND CAMERA
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Where is Frances?
HERE are many points of view about addresses and people at them which vary with the
position of the man with the point of view. And no man is complete without one. The
man in the street who is holding a letter addressed to dear alumnus from Old Gulch college
which he not only never attended but never even heard of, has a rather bitter one, born of
many years of receiving Old Gulch mail for the man who rented his house one winter when
he went to Florida, an action which he has every reason to regret. He throws it away in the
basket provided for that purpose (keep your city streets clean) and wishes Old Gulch and
its dear alumnus both a very unhappy future.

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But no matter how bitter, the man in the street really cares about addresses, which is
something we can't say about alumnus of type A for example, who, by some freak of nature
and the U. S. Mails, gets his mail after it has had a long hard winter and a merry chase
through all the subsidiary postoffices in the ten largest cities in the country. After carefully
piecing it together, he may try to read it and will tell the folks in a conversational sort of
way at dinner that night that it certainly is a riot that Old Gulch never seems to get the
right address. Remember last year when we lived in Oskaloosing, Ohio? A ll the announce­
ments kept coming a month after everyone had forgotten what the celebration was about and
were addressed to Paradise, Pa. where we stayed overnight the year before and somehow the
news got around. And he files the letter away under miscellaneous and makes plans for
moving suddenly in case the college might be suspecting his present address.
The type B alumnus is living in a world all his own and doesn't get any notices be­
cause the man in the street (see above) keeps throwing them away at the address where this
man lived twenty years ago. So he is hurt about the whole thing and says nobody ever tells
him anything and he has devoted the best years of his life to that college and they can't
even send him a football schedule and he certainly won't send his son to that place!
Then there is type C sometimes known as the sweet young type— other times known as
"oh them". They are the youngest and most energetic group who go away to forget after
they leave college and play hare and hounds with the mailman for three or four years. Dur­
ing this time their mail piles up at home and is used each Christmas to start things going
under the Yule log. Finally they get married and settle down and go over to mother's every
so often to pick up the mail. The next step is that they start wondering why the college
doesn't send them mail direct.
But all these types are really brothers in the bond. None of them ever sends in a new
address— They have the naive approach to the U. S. M ail and think that either a college
sends mail to its alumni or it doesn't and there is no reason why it shouldn't. A ll they need
to do is to drop a penny post card in the box and so why don't I get those athletic schedules.
Of course, someone is bound to mention if I don't so I will, the alumnus who does send
in his new address and keeps getting: (a) no mail at a ll; (b) mail still addressed to the old
house; or, (c) two notices of everything, (just to make sure) one addressed to his old address
and one to the new. This last category is made even more fun for collectors if there are
some children in the fam ily who have gone to the old alma mater in which case you multiply
the above figure by the number of children and the result is unbelievable but true.
If that kind of thing happened at Swarthmore, which, of course, is unthinkable— but
if it did— we would be bound to explain in a very technical and obscure way that when you
take out an addressplate and don't get one in because something else happens to take your
mind off it— or vice versa and there are two plates in and! none out— things happen and
fate moves in strange ways. But we would say in a very earnest voice that we are trying to
keep our minds on our work and that some day we hope you will get one letter at a time
and that at the right address.
Just now we are going to take a big breath and put out a new alumni register. And so
this is an APPEAL. If you have friends or can influence people, ask them to send in their
correct address if we do not haveit. We are not going to send out a return postal card to
the whole alumni body because the addresses we want never get back to us that way. The
card which we enclose with this issue of the Garnet Letter is meant for you to fill out for
someone you know whose address you think the college has lost. We earnestly request your
cooperation on this matter because we want the new register to be as accurate as possible.
W e received over five hundred changes of address from the last m ailing of the Garnet Letter.
The government is on our side. If Annie doesn't live here any more won't you drop us a
card and tell us where she's moved?

The Garnet Letter

HAROLD SPEIGHT RESIGNS A S

DEAN

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OF

THE

COLLEGE

Mr. Speight is particularly fitted for his new position
not only because o f his background in college administra­
tive work, but also because o f his varied experience on
many educational boards where his interest has not been
limited to the academic but has evidenced itself in active
leadership and participation.

Since 1925 he has been a

trustee o f the Bradford Junior College in Massachusetts.
For the last three and a half years he has been the Chair­
man of the Friends Council on Education and has been
a member o f the Executive Committee o f the College E n­
trance Examination Board for a much longer time. He
is chairman o f a committee o f six representing the Guid­
ance and Personnel Associations for the study o f the or­
ganized personnel work in various kinds o f institutions
throughout the country. In all o f these tenures, he has
become familiar with conditions, .results, and needs o f the
educational system in various parts o f the country. This
knowledge can not help but be an invaluable asset in his
new work.
Dean Speight’s resignation terminates six and one-half
On Tuesday, February 6, the Board o f Managers ac­
cepted with regret the resignation o f Dean Harold E. B.
Speight. Mr. Speight resigned as Dean o f the College to
assume the duties o f executive secretary and coordinator
of the New Y ork State project for the improvement o f
teacher preparation and in-service training which is being
undertaken by the Association o f Colleges and Univer­
sities in that State. H e was named to his position by the
Association and will take up the work on March T. A t
the outset his headquarters will be at Ithaca, but the loca­
tion of a permanent office has not been decided.
This project is being handled through a special Com­
mittee o f which President Edmund E. Day, o f Cornell
University, is chairman. It has been inspired partly by
the recent Regents’ Inquiry and partly by new legislation
requiring, from 1942 on, an additional year o f prepara­
tion for teachers. The institutions, public and private, o f
the, State are attacking the problem cooperatively and are
working in close cooperation with the nation-wide pro­
gram o f the Commission on Teacher Education o f the
American Council on Education. About thirty institutions
and school systems in.various parts o f the country have
been chosen as centers o f special projects, but the New
York program will be autonomous and under the control
of the Association o f Colleges and Universities o f that
state.

years o f service at Swarthmore College. Arriving here in
the fall o f 1933 from Dartmouth, he filled the office o f
Dean o f Men until February 1, 1939 when, on his return
from a leave o f absence, his appointment as Dean o f the
College became effective.
President Aydelotte has issued the following statement
regarding Dean Speight’s resignation:
The many friends o f Dean Speight in Swarthmore
and in the Society o f Friends learn o f his resignation with
regret and hope that his leaving will not mean that he will
lose connection with the College and with Quakerism. The
work which he has undertaken for the Association o f Col­
leges and Universities o f the State o f New Y ork is o f
great interest and o f nation-wide importance. It will offer
full scope for Dean Speight’ s varied abilities and broad
experience, and the results should have an influence upon
our whole secondary school system. A college is a train­
ing ground not merely for students but also for the faculty
and even for deans and presidents. Our heartiest good
wishes will follow Dean Speight as he joins the group o f
men and women who have gone out from Swarthmore to
important tasks which experience here has better fitted
them to perform .”

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MR.

AYDELOTTE'S

SUCCESSOR

AS

YET

UNNAMED

Howard Cooper Johnson Issues Statement on Behalf of Selection Committee
U pon the resignation of Frank Aydelotte as President
o f Swarthmore, the Board o f Manageis appointed a Com­
mittee o f five to select a new President and invited the
Faculty to appoint three representatives to sit in with the
Board Committee. Subsequently the Alumni Association
also appointed a representative. The personnel o f the Com­
mittee is as follows :
Representing the Board, H etty Lippincott Miller, J.
Archer Turner, Ruth P. Ashton, Claude C. Smith, H ow ­
ard Cooper Johnson, Charles F. Jenkins, ex-officio. R ep­
resenting the Faculty, Scott B. Lilly, Edith Philips, Clair
W ilcox. Representing the Alumni Association, Allin H .
Pierce.
U pon organization H oward Cooper Johnson was ap­
pointed Chairman and Claude C. Smith Secretary o f the
Committee. Three meetings have been held— on N ov. 20,
1939, December 5th, 1939 and Jan. 8th, 1940.
Although the Committee has adopted no minute, it is
the general feeling o f the members o f the Committee that
the President o f Swarthmore should combine high schol­
astic attainments, sound administrative capacity and a
full belief in the American constitutional system o f pri­
vate enterprise. Some o f the Committee feel that there is
now a need in our Colleges for leaders capable of inspir­
ing students to attain not only high scholarship but a
greater interest in Christian faith. The remarkable abil­
ities o f Mrs. Aydelotte have proven that the w ife of the
President makes or mars his administration and, therefore,
a candidate whose w ife fails to live up to this standard
is not likely to be appointed.

Our Committee appears to be united in the hope that
we can find a man in the general neighborhood o f forty,
so he might have a long administrative term at Swarth­
more. W e also want to avoid one who might use Swarth­
more as a stepping stone for the presidency o f some U ni­
versity.
W e have had submitted to us the names o f seventynine persons and the Chairman has recently written to the
presidents o f fifteen leading Universities, Colleges and
educational foundations for suggestions. These men are
familiar with Swarthmore and know our need. Several
have already made valued suggestions.
Some o f the members on the Committee have been sur­
prised that the Alumni have apparently shown so little
interest in the selection o f a new president. W e have re­
ceived only five letters since the appointment of the Com­
mittee, three o f which were concerned with one midwest
candidate. V ery few verbal suggestions have been made.
N o single problem in the recent history of Swarthmore
is harder to solve, or one in which the Alumni generally
have a greater stake. Even if they do not have in mind
some definite person, each Alumnus believes that certain
principles should guide the Committee in the selection,
and the Committee would appreciate the benefit o f this
Alumni opinion.
It is often difficult to obtain real disinterested opinions
concerning those whose names are presented and the ob­
taining o f factual information requires considerable time.
The Committee, therefore, will not be hurried in making
the appointment.

\LUMNI COUNCILS VOTE RESOLUTIONS COMMENDING MR. AYDELOTTE
The Joint

Councils o f

the Alumni

Association

of

Swarthmore College, having been formally advised o f the
resignation o f Frank Aydelotte as President o f Swarth­
more College and o f his appointment as Director o f the
Institute o f Advanced Study at Princeton, New Jersey,
have unanimously adopted the following M in u te:
Frank Aydelotte for the past eighteen years has served

they have learned to love him. Swarthmore College looks
to the future with increased confidence for having known
him.

IT IS N O W R E SO L V E D , That the Members o f the
Alumni Association o f Swarthmore College do hereby ex­
press their profound regret at his resignation, record their
high appreciation o f his conspicuous, faithful and devoted
service to the College and extend to him their sincere best

Swarthmore College as its President, faithfully and with

wishes for success in his new undertaking.

distinction. H is character, learning and industry, his prac­

and the alumni. Through his w ord and pen they have

F U R T H E R RESO LVED , That the Secretary be re­
quested to inscribe these resolutions upon the permanent
records o f the Alumni Association] and that the Presi
dent o f the Association be requested to transmit a copy of

found renewed inspiration. Through his genial friendship

the resolutions to Frank Aydelotte.

tical vision and his courageous leadership have won for
him the respect and admiration o f the faculty, the students

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OBSERVATIONS FROM THE MARTIN BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY
by Laurence Irving, Director
U R E N V IR O N M E N T is largely occupied by man
and other animals and by plants. Many lifeless ma­
terials are around us, but most o f them are, like buildings,
coal, soil and even the air, present in the position and con­
dition in which animals and plants have left them. It is in
the province o f biology to consider all aspects o f animals
and plants and it is the objective o f biologists to organize
and extend knowledge o f living things and o f life. I f the
subject of study is to be worth serious attention it is essen­
tial that it should be intellectually interesting, and that it
should be useful follows inevitably from the amount o f
intellectual interest which it evokes and in proportion to
the correctness and penetration which it provides for in­
sight into the environment.

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The teaching in the Martin Laboratory proceeds along
fairly conservative lines, but it is activated by the various
biological investigations which are in progress. Each
member o f the staff is keenly following his own interest­
ing research, but I can only fairly describe my own as an
example of what we are doing and then remark upon the
effect o f some o f our common activities.
I have been interested in the study o f how diving ani­
mals like seals, beaver and whales can remain so long with­
out breathing. Beaver can dive for fifteen minutes, seals
for a half hour, and some whales for perhaps two hours.
These animals have lungs, heart and blood, an entire res­
piratory apparatus and metabolism like ours, and yet we
are hard put to it to dive for a minute or two. The divers
seem to manage during a dive by restricting the blood
flow through their muscles and by maintaining only the
circulation through the brain, in that way preserving the
store o f oxygen for that most sensitive and essential or­
gan.

Oslo, Norway, and has prepared spirometers applicable
to measuring air expired by a small whale or porpoise.
Dr. Scholander has already perform ed many ingenious
and bold experiments on seals in Norway, and his experi­
ence and resourcefulness prepare us reasonably fo r the
ambitious program of examining the respiration o f por- *
poises and whales. Dr. S. W . Grinnell, a graduate o f
Stanford in physical chemistry, is preparing an electrical
resistance wire method for measurement o f blood flow.
His assistance and much equipment are provided by a
grant from the Rockefeller Foundation.
During the Christmas holidays an expedition compris­
ing five members o f the staff and seven students travelled
to Hatteras, N. C. and captured two porpoises for study,
returning them to Swarthmore where they were kept in
the swimming pool at the prep school buildings. This e f­
fort was attended with difficulties nearly commensurate
with the magnitude o f its objective, for porpoises are
whales. The investigation has made good progress, and
we hope that we are approaching a clarification o f the
mode o f respiration o f the most mysterious o f all living
animals, the whale. It is strange that whales which are
so familiar and so interesting to man should still remain
in all o f their activities so little known.
Other investigations, which Mr. Black has carried on,
are examining the variations in the blood o f different spe­
cies o f fish which are related to their respiration. The
catfish and trout and salmon seem to represent the extreme
range o f divergence in properties of blood. The properties

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Having observed adjustments o f this sort in the beaver,
it was then possible to see that cats, dogs and men make
in a similar manner, although less perfectly, an adjust­
ment to arrested breathing by preserving the blood flow
through the brain. Although operating less perfectly, the
self-preservation o f land animals from asphyxia during
an accidental obstruction to breathing is clearly an impor­
tant matter in life. F or each o f us must prize a physiolo­
gical device which secures existence in the presence of the
narrow respiratory reserve which we possess.
The technical procedure applied to studying the details
of adjustment o f breathing requires measurements o f
blood flow, action o f the heart, and breathing. For these
studies we have assembled and constructed a number o f
instruments. Dr. P. F. Scholander has come as a fellow
o f the Rockefeller Foundation from the University o f

LAURENCE IRVING

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The Garnet Letter

WILLIAM ISAAC HULL
by Ethel H. Brew ster,307
O R T Y -S E V E N years at Swarthmore College— that
is the record o f W illiam I. Hull, outstripping in time
the thirty-six years o f W iliam Hyde Appleton, the thirtyseven o f Susan J. Cunningham and Jesse H. Holmes
(who, though Emeritus, is still a dynam o). H ow blessed
the College has been in these long term servitors, who
with ever growing minds and steady activity have bridged
administrations, maintained worthy traditions, stabilized
lean years, filled emergencies in their stride, and though
adapting their course to the shifting breeze, have never
lost direction. W hat such men and women mean in the
hearts o f numberless foster-sons and daughters the world
over is evidenced by the universal affection for “ Mr.
Chips” on page or screen-^pTrue, “ Mr. Chips” rouses a
special nostalgia for the passing o f an entire educational
system, but it is chiefly the man’s courageous, faithful,
devoted spirit that speaks to the soul.

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So with Dr. Hull— H e left us very suddenly, but we
^ are grateful that he tarried to celebrate with us the
v seventy-fifth anniversary o f the signing o f the College
charter. W ithout him there would have been no one to
. record adequately those years o f labor and hopeful vision
prior to the opening o f the College* which his researches
had recovered. W ith him to link the generations, the eve­
ning o f Friday, November 10th, which was dedicated to
historical surveys, proved a great success. H e was at his
best in word and spirit and set the tone for the evening.
The next morning, before a large assemblage o f alumni
and friends gathered on Founders’ Day to hear the ad­
dress o f Lord Lothian, he opened the meeting with a beau­
tiful reading from The Scriptures. On Sunday he was
cordial host to many friends. On Monday, he went to a
Philadelphia hospital for periodic observation (he has not
been in the best o f health in recent years), and slipped
away in the night— -away from man-made strife which he
had always deprecated, to, we may be confident, the ideal
Peace toward which he had always aimed. It is gratifying
that his last hours should have centered so happily upon
Founders’ Day, an institution in which he particularly de­
lighted, and upon a special historical anniversary o f the
College to which he had devoted his life.
Dr. Hull came to Swarthmore in 1892 to be Associate
Professor o f H istory and Political Science. A native son
o f Baltimore, where he was born November 19th, 1868,
he had taken an A .B . degree in 1889, and the Ph.D. de­
gree in 1892 at Johns Hopkins University, which had
been established shortly after Swarthmore College, and
was pioneering in the field o f higher education. H e was,

therefore, one o f the promising young men inspired by
President Gilman and the brilliant Faculty who were em­
phasizing advanced instruction and research. A m ong his
older contemporaries at Johns Hopkins was Abraham
Flexner, friend and patron o f Swarthmore College,
though he has lured President Aydelotte to the Institute
o f Advanced Study o f which he was one o f the founders.
The youngest member o f the Faculty when he began
to teach at Swarthmore, Dr. Hull served his apprenticeship
under Presidents de Garmo and Birdsall, and grew with
the institution through the regimes o f President Swain
and President Aydelotte. His changing titles indicate his
expanding interests and powers. A fter two years, he was
appointed Joseph W harton Professor o f History and Poli­
tical Economy. Instantly there was offered in the curri­
culum a new course on Social Problems of To-day ; by
1902, it included, as described in the catalogue, a study
o f “ Crime and Punishment; the Insane and Feeble-M ind­
ed; Paupers and Charity; Tenement H ouses; W om en and
the Fam ily; Children o f the P o o r ; Social Settlements;
Intemperance and Methods of Temperance R e fo rm ; the
Salvation A rm y’s Social W o r k ; the N egro; the Indian” .
The problems involved continued to concern Dr. Hull, but
he more and more grounded them in Yesterday and antici­

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when a dual department was divided, he became in 1904 .
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Horizons for his students broadened, t o o : he was never
dogmatic nor did he permit them to b e; he had them
wrestle with a myriad o f “ Disputed Questions” , and
trained them in methods o f arbitration. In the heyday o f
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his teaching, he had a habit o f pacing up and down the i
room, with his arms locked behind his back— symbolic, J
perhaps, o f facing both sides squarely, or as A lice might
explain to the Mad Hatter, emphasizing the need o f re- J
tracing one’s steps in order to keep up with events— thus j
he strode through all history, restrained and majestic, but j
with an occasional flip to. the tails o f his Prince Albert
(when in mode) as a challenge to the hindermost. St-udents found exemplified in him integrity,reasoned justice, j
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Needless to say,
with the coming o f
President Aydelotte,
Dr. Hull immediate­
ly recognized t h e
educational
advan­
tages o f the system
of Reading for H on­
ors as outlined in the
President’s

inaugu­

ral address; he was
one o f the first to re­
quest its adoption in
1922, and contribut­
ed to its development
in the experimental
years. From 1923 to
1928 he served as
Secretary o f t h e
Faculty, applying a
discerning mind and
felicitous phrasing to
Faculty Minutes. In 1929, at an age when many individ­
uals prefer to rest upon their laurels and contemplate
retirement, he accepted the challenge offered with the
Howard M. Jenkins Professorship o f Quaker History and
Research, and entered upon a most productive decade.
Throughout all the period o f his teaching, Dr. Hull
was engaged in outside activities: social education, Peace,
the Society o f Friends were his great concern. In 1898
he had married Hannah Hallowell Clothier, o f the class
of 1891, whose family figures large in Swarthmore an­
nals : two daughters, Mary Clothier M cN eil and Elizabeth
Powell Roberts, have now married and established homes
of their own. Together Hannah and W ill Hull dedicated
their lives to the great cause o f Peace, their allegiance
never swerving when the cause has been the most un­
popular. Dr. Hull was convinced as quoted in a Phoenix
interview for October 21, 1930, that armaments “ con­
stitute the inevitable and insuperable obstacle to the suc­
cessful settlement of disputes among nations by peaceful
means” , and to those who maintained that such means
were impracticable, he would retort: Study the history of
pacific settlements and you will be amazed to discover
how, often they have been successful. Thus the Hulls
demonstrated the Quaker way, spreading the doctrine pri­
vately and publicly when they journeyed, testing the soft
answer that turneth away wrath in their daily rounds, or
when summering in “ The Brier Patch” at Jamestown,
Long Island, where as Dr. Hull wrote to a friend, they
“ lived serenely among the bees, berries, birds, breezes,
briars, butterflies, and bunnies, with pheasants and deer
in the offing” 4

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W hen one considers the achievement in outside activi­
ties, one wonders that there was time for other work. And
all was accomplished with such quietude and self-efface­
ment that few were conscious o f the variety and extent o f
his enterprises. Dr. Hull was an active member o f thè
Phi Beta Kappa Society (President o f the local chapter,
1921-1924), o f the American Historical Association, o f
the Historical Society o f Pennsylvania, o f the American
Society o f International Law, and was a Fellow o f the
Royal Historical Society o f London. H e attended the
Hague Conference o f 1907, the Naval Conference at
Washington in 1922, the Disarmament Conference at
Geneva in 1932. For a number o f years he was chairman
o f the Pennsylvania Committee for Total Disarmament.
In recent years, he has been deeply interested in the work
of the American Friends Service Committee; he played
a prominent part in the Friends’ W orld Conference at
Swarthmore in 1937; at the time o f his death, he was
president o f the Friends’ Social Union, and was a Trustee
o f the Church Peace Union. H e w his speeches and debating in which he displayed an oldtime eloquence; in 1928 he gained much publicity when
he outmanoeuvered Representative Britten o f the House
Naval Affairs Committee, and was denounced by the
Daughters o f the American Revolution! Upon his return
to the campus, the students-voluntarily rose as a body to
greet him and claim for him freedom o f speech. In the
winter o f 1930, it is said, Mr. Britten refused to debate
with Dr. Hull on the question o f disarmament !
Space will not permit a complete listing of his publica­
tions. In addition to articles and pamphlets, seven vol­
umes had been published prior to 1929 on historical sub­
jects, sociology, higher education, international law, and
problems o f peace and preparedness. In his last decade,
when he occupied the Chair of Quaker History, his indus­
try was prodigious, concerned not only with research, but
since 1936, with the organization o f the Friends’ H istori­
cal Library o f which he became Librarian upon the retire­
ment o f J. Russell Hayes. There appeared in 1929, The
W ar-Method and the Peace-Method j in 1930, India’s Poli­
tical Crisis, which was much discussed both in England
and India; in 1934, William Sewel of Amsterdam; in
1935, William Penn and the Dutch Quaker Migration to
Pennsylvania; in 1936, Eight First Biographies o f William
Penn in Seven Languages and Seven Lands; in 1937, W il­
liam Penn, in 1938, The Rise of Quakerism in Amster­
dam, 1655-1665. H e left at his death a completed m ono­
graph o f the Quaker history series, notes for other s'tudies,
and a manuscript on the History of Swarthmore College,
completed to 1900.
Nothing has been said as yet o f Dr. H ull’s work for
the Friends’ Historical Library. This has been in itself
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a magnificent performance which will require a separate
recording.

Since 1871 when Anson Lapham made the

first presentation o f books as a nucleus, many devoted
Friends have contributed to the value and usefulness of
the collection o f material on Quaker history, religion, and
social reforms, which is now so fittingly housed in the
Clement M . Biddle wing o f the College Library. N o one

OBSERVATIONS FROM THE MARTIN
BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY
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o f particular interest are not peculiar to fish alone, but
are the same as those which appear in mammalian blood.
In the fish, however, there are great variations which pre­
sent in sharper contrast the properties which we see in
mammalian blood, which we know to be important, and
which we find easier to understand in the light o f the con­
trasts presented in the blood of fishes.

has supervised the collection with greater effectiveness
than Dr. Hull in the two and a half years before his re­

The investigation has taken M r. Black to the lakes of

tirement. H e personally engaged in much field work to

Ontario for study during the summer, accompanied last

locate and acquire books, manuscripts, and museum pieces
through Friends’ Meetings, organizations, and individ­
uals. W ith the able assistance o f E. Virginia Walker, he

summer by Dr. Scott. Earl Benditt ( ’37) and Peter M or­
rison ( ’40) studied the salmon in the rivers around Gaspe,
Province o f Quebec.

pushed the accessioning and cataloguing o f books and mat­

I should mention the list o f animals which have been

ter o f every kind, and gave his ow n expert, personal at­

kept in the Martin Laboratory— fox, marten, rat, cat,

tention to the sorting and classifying o f manuscripts, pam­

skunk, mountain lion, pigmy sperm whale, bottle nosed

phlets, periodicals, clippings, pictures, and relics, being
able frequently to identify material that had not been doc­
umented.

Up-to-date methods have been employed for

protective measures ; Quaker manuscripts, for instance,
have been microfilmed to preserve the originals from
wear. I doubt whether Friends and alumni fully appre­
ciate the intrinsic value and great potentialities o f this

porpoise, mink, porcupine, opossum, mice, shrews, etc.
These have been largely brought in by the interests o f Dr.
Enders in studying the reproductive cycles o f mammals,
in which he has been assisted by generous grants from the
United States Biological Survey, but we must also thank
many students and others for collaborating in the capture
o f interesting mammals.

Quaker depository., In the past year over five hundred in­

The investigations o f other members o f the staff would

quiries have come from investigators at large, and interest

make their own interesting story, but I would like to de­

is steadily growing.

scribe the relation that these studies have had with the

In June 1939, Dr. Hull delivered the Baccalaureate ad­

essential instruction o f students.

dress at Commencement time, and retired from active

Students pay us the compliment o f being interested in

service at the College, though he continued to labor in the

what is going on, and we find it agreeable to have them

Library until the end. O n November 19th, which would

observe freely. W e feel as ready to ask for their aid as

have been his 71st birthday, a large and distinguished

they do to ask for ours, and we find the working associa­

group gathered in the Isaac H . Clothier Memorial to pay

tion to be pleasant and profitable. W e have very little re­

respect to his memory, and to express sympathy to his
Touching and affectionate tributes were paid to

gard for privacy and find that the best safeguard and care
for equipment is to have it accessible to many people who

his abilities, his achievements, and above all to his indom­

are competent in its use. There is no particular order in

family.

itable courage and abiding faith. It is inspiring to survey

the laboratories except that which comes from the dis­

the record o f his years ; it is a privilege to have known him.
Consciously he cherished the scholarly and humanitarian

couraging influence which workers always exert upon

traditions o f Dr. Appleton, and carried on the torch. In
spite o f interests that encircled the globe, in spite of oppo­
sition that frequently met his efforts, he walked among us
almost as a country Gentleman without a concern in the
world— genial, courteous, friendly to every human being,
inquiring in his absence even for “ the starling family in
the rainspout!” H is is the light that never fails; without
sadness o f farewell, let us accept the torch full blaze, with
“ A ll hail to Dr. Hull !”

those who are at leisure.
I believe that this system o f planned anarchy is gener­
ally agreeable and it is very convenient in a laboratory
which is already so completely occupied. A s for the value
o f the results, time and others must decide. W e on the
staff can tell by close association with students how to
recommend and what to advise and they can well judge
how far they should follow and where they should pro, ceed upon their own course. It is in the last mentioned
case that we both gain.

The Garnet Letter

9

TENNIS AN D BADMINTON POPULAR YEAR ROUND SPORTS
One o f the most amazing de­
velopments of the Swarthmore
athletic program in the last ten
years has been the growth o f the
racquets sports o f which tennis
is the popular leader. T h e
principal reasons fo r this in­
creased interest are the additional
playing areas (the Field-House
and the Prep School Gymnasi­
um) which permit year round
participation, and the addition o f
Edwin J. Faulkner to the staff o f
our athletic department.
During the winter when most colleges confine them­
selves to basketball, swimming, and wrestling, Swarth­
more is busy with her racquet sports as well. From 9:00
A. M . until 4 :00 P. M . daily, one can find the two tennis
courts at the field house taxed to capacity. A t the same
time, badminton instruction is being given in the Hall and
Prep School Gymnasiums.
About one hundred men and fifty women take regular
weekly tennis lessons during the winter season and these
figures swell to 150 men and a like number o f women
when weather permits outdoor playing. Approximately
fifty men and one hundred women exercise themselves on
the badminton courts, and the basement o f Hall Gymna­
sium has become a mecca for the squash, paddle ball and
hand ball enthusiasts.
W ith well over half o f the student body taking part in
this activity, one would suppose there would be little time
for formal matches. On the contrary, the women have
recognized badminton as a m ajor sport and play a regular
schedule o f games. Three men’s tennis teams play a sched­
ule o f winter matches with various colleges and clubs in
this area. Even the faculty has team matches with interest
running as high as with the undergraduates. F or the last
few years a winter exhibition has been held at the field
house which brings to the campus such internationally
known tennis figures as Vinnie Richards, Clifford Sutter
and Jack Tidbal., Bill Tilden has been invited for this
year’s exhibition.
In these ten years, tennis has grown from a sport which
was played by a few to its present position o f unquestioned
popularity. Badminton as undergraduate exercise is ap­
proximately five years old. It, too, is putting a tax on our
already spacious physical equipment.
Much credit for this movement goes to Ed Faulkner
who coaches our racquet sports for men and serves in an
advisory capacity for the women’s athletic department.

Ed came to Swarthmore for the first time in the spring
o f 1929 when he was named as coach o f the men’s tennis
team. In 1936 he became a full time member o f the men’s
athletic department and has served in that capacity ever
since. Himself one o f the best tennis players o f his time,
he now enjoys the reputation o f being among the ablest
teachers o f the racquet sports in the country. H is coach­
ing career dates back to 1921 when he began instructing
at the Germantown Cricket Club. A t intervals he has
served as advisor and coach o f the Davis Cup teams o f
this country, France, and Spain. O f principal importance,
however, is his ability to teach the games even better than
he plays them, and around Swarthmore we haven’t seen
his equal in actual competition. Swarthmore enjoys a
long heritage of good tennis teams.
W ith the present
equipment and student instruction, we can be assured o f
even greater competence in racquet sports generally. A ll
of this fits into that part o f our athletic program ‘which
gives the student the opportunity to participate in those
sports in which he can find exercise and relaxation after
graduation from college.
F or the past few months eastern sports writers have
been devoting columns to the accomplishments o f Swarthmore’s athletic teams. It needs no pointing out that these
teams have given the friends o f the college and her alumni
just cause to be proud o f the manner in which they have
conducted themselves on field o f play.
The women’s hockey team not only went through the
season undefeated but is alleged to have established a new
intercollegiate record when it played an eight game sched­
ule without having a single goal scored against it. Our
hockey team has not met defeat since early in 1935.
Under the inspiring leadership o f Captain Ed Jakle
with a supporting cast o f many returning lettermen,
Swarthmore, for the first time in history, produced an
undefeated football team. W e offer a special word o f
praise to Coaches Elverson and Stofko for the splendid
manner in which the team was handled.
Bob Dunn’s soccer team ended the season with two de­
feats (both by one goal margins) yet, managed to tie Haverford for the Middle Atlantic States’ Championship.
This record has been made against the finest competition
in the East, with indications pointing to a well balanced
squad returning next year.
Cross Country with a record o f no victories and four
defeats had the misfortune o f losing all o f their races by
the narrowest o f margins. The principal handicap was a
lack o f experienced men, which will not be the case next
year when the varsity can draw on the services o f this
year’s strong freshmen squad.

52~ A M UAL BANQUET
SWARTHMORE CLUB O F PHILADELPHIA
SATURDAY,

6:30

FEBRUARY

24th

P. M.

BELLEVUE - STRATFORD

HOTEL

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GUEST SPEAKER Neil Carothers — Dean of the
C ollege o f Business Administra­
tion—Lehigh University

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TESTIMONIAL

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SPECIAL GUESTS Swarthmore's 1939 U ndefeated
Football Team

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IDEAL WEEK-END Feb. 22nd W ashington's Birthday
Feb. 23rd Basketball
Haverford at Swarthmore
Feb. 24th The Banquet

Dress Optional

to President Aydelotte

Reservations:
ALBERT L. HOOD, JR.
12 South 12th Street
Philadelphia