Swarthmore College Alumni Bulletin 1952-03-01

I The

Garnet Letter

above:
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS CLASS
INSIDE NATION’S CAPITAL
(see inside cover)

MARCH. 1952
Volume X V Ï

Number 4

The Garnet Letter
Volume XVi

B U L L E T I N

No. 4

BOARD

EXTRA! — EXTRA!

MARCH 1952 -

Published by the Alumni Office of Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pa.
EDITORS

Joseph B. Shane ’25, vice-president; Kath­
ryn Bassett ’35, alumni office; George A.
Test ’49, publicity director.

As we went to press official announcement was made of the results
of the student referendum on fraternities;
IN FAVOR OF FRATERN ITIES------386
AGAINST FRATERNITIES ——
194
(The next G arnet L etter, to be issued in May, will contain a
complete story on the poll.)

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OFFICERS

William F. Lee ’33, president; Herbert L.
Brown T6, vice-president for men; Virginia
Brown Greer ’26, vice-president for women;
Inez Coulter Russell ’25, secretary.
ADVISORY BOARD

Robert H. Wilson ’31, chairman; Robert
J. Cadigan ’34, Morris M. Lee, Jr. ’29,
Isabel Logan Lyon ’42, Frederick C. Selby
’44.
ALUMNI MANAGERS

Margaret Ball Dellmuth ’33, Caroline
Biddle Malin ’28, Richard FI. McFeely ’27,
Amos J. Peaslee ’07, Ellen Fernon Reisner
’31, Gertrude Wood Thatcher T4, Jack B.
Thompson ’27, William H. Ward ’ 15.

In a recent student “straw vote” General Dwight Eisenhower was
“elected” to be the next president.
NEWS OF SWARTHMORE CLUBS
Philadelphia

Luncheon—April 15, 12:30—University Club.
New York

Luncheon—April 1, 12:20—Zeta Psi Fraternity, 31 E. 39th St.
Luncheon—May 6—Zeta Psi Fraternity, 31 E. 39th St.
Pittsburgh

Evening Meeting—April 18, 8 :0 0 247 Hoodridge Drive, Mt. Lebanon
John W. Nason and Joseph B. Shane will be the speakers.
Long Island

(Meetings to be held in May. Date and details to be announced.)

COVER
Swarthmore Goes To Washington

In January the International Rela­
tions class led by Prof. Gerard J. Mangone got a first hand view of the U. S.
capital at work. The picture on the
cover shows the class with Mr. Armin
Meyers (seated) of the Near Eastern,
South Asian and African Bureau of
the State Department who has just
given the students a description of
American foreign policy in the Near
East.
Other places visited by the group of
twenty-one students included the Pan
American Union, the International
Bank of Reconstruction and Develop­
ment, and the Indonesian Embassy
where they were greeted by the First
Secretary for tea and a discussion of
Asian affairs.

ALUMNI FUND
INTERIM REPORT
As we go to press the Alumni Fund
stands at $59,020.69 given by 2,423
alumni. This is $6,500 more than at
the same time last year. So far there
are also 736 more donors than last
year.
See page 5 for the standings of
each class as of March 1.

Westchester County IN. Y.)

(Meetings to be held in May. Date and details to be announced.)
Chicago

Dinner—May 10—Tally Ho, Evanston, 111.
Joseph B. Shane will be the speaker.
Sarah Blanding, Vassar President, Somerville Day Speaker, April 5
The annual Somerville Day visitation takes place this year, April 5, and
features Sarah G. Blanding, President of Vassar College, as the speaker. Her
subject will be, “The Liberal Mind.”
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A short business meeting and the awarding of the Lucretia Mott and Martha
E. Tyson Fellowships will take place at the Luncheon which starts at 1 P.M.
Eieanor Runk Reppert T9 is the alumnae chairman. Mary Jane Winde 53,
daughter of Norman H. ’27 and Gertrude Jolls Winde ’28, is the student chairman.
“ Some Flowers That Bloom in the Spring”
The Scott Foundation will represent Swarthmofe College on the WFIL-TV
University of the Air program, starting Wednesday, April 2 and running each
successive Wednesday until May 14.
John C. Wister. director of the Scott Foundation, Harry Wood, college super­
intendent, and his wife, Anne, will be the featured performers.
Folk Festival Features Richard Dyer-Bennet
The seventh annual Swarthmore College Folk Festival will be held April 18,
19 and 20. There will be square dances in the Lamb-Miller Field House, Friday
and Saturday evenings, and on Sunday afternoon at 2 :00 the William J. Cooper
Foundation will present a folk song recital by Richard Dyer-Bennet.
For Women Only
Education, current affairs and the woman are the concern of the more than
1,160 local groups of the American Association of University Women. Swarthmore
graduates, and future graduates in the Philadelphia area are invited to join the
local AAUW group which meets at the Women’s University Club, 315 S. i/tn
St., Phila., Pa.
Swarthmore is one of the twenty-one colleges whose alumnae are entitled to
the free vocational services of the Women’s Placement Bureau, 541 Madison Ave.,
New York City. Because the bureau is supported by subscription and not place­
ment fees it is free to emphasize finding the right woman for the right job. I his
is an important extension of the college’s placement service and all alumnae are
invited to make the fullest possible use of it.

McCABE AWARD SEEKS FUTURE LEADERS
AS STUDENTS OF SWARTHMORE

Thomas B. McCabe ’ 15 presents agreement setting up award
in his name to President John W. Nason.

NE of Swarthmore’s outstanding
alumni, Thomas B. McCabe,
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has established an “Achievement
Award” for prospective men students.
Based primarily upon leadership
ability, it is designed to attract to
Swarthmore men students “of extraor­
dinary character and ambition with
an awareness of human relationships,
and with an excellent balance of
mind, body and spirit.” Unlike con­
ventional scholarships it will be
awarded without respect to financial
need.
The first of the Awards will be
made this year to a boy who will enter
Swarthmore next September.
Thomas B. M cCabe Fund

To establish the Achievement
Award, Mr. McCabe has given to the
college a total fund of $90,579.78.
The income from this and such other
gifts as may be subsequently made
for the purpose, will make possible
Achievement Awards of $1000 a year
for each of the four years that the
winners remain in college.
The Awards are restricted to appli­
cants who live in Delaware or in the
“Eastern Shore” areas of Maryland
and Virginia. This is the same region
from which Mr. McCabe entered
Swarthmore with the Class of 1915,
March, 1952

and then went on to become a leader
in business as president of the Scott
Paper Company, and in public affairs
as Chairman of the board of gover­
nors of the Federal Reserve System.
The agreement which creates the
Award points out that the Eastern
Shore area “is of especial significance
to the donor and his family because
of many personal associations with its
residents. The environment, rich tra­
ditions, atmosphere of friendliness
and hospitality, and influence of
countless strains of pioneer stock of
this section of the country are con­
ducive to the development of good
citizens and young men with the po­
tentialities of leadership.”
As for Swarthmore, the agreement
says: “The donor and his family have
strong and affectionate ties with
Swarthmore College and believe that
it offers exceptional advantages to the
recipients of the Awards. Although
the donor and his family are not
members of the Society of Friends,
they have great admiration for the
Quakers, who founded Swarthmore
College, and respect them for preserv­
ing at Swarthmore the high principles
of their religious faith with full recog­
nition of the vital importance of
human freedom, tolerance, and serv­
ice to their fellow man.”

Mr. McCabe provided for the
appointment of a committee of men
graduates living in the Eastern Shore
area to meet with College authorities
to work out procedures for the selec­
tion of Award winners and to recom­
mend desirable candidates. Members
of the Committee are:
Irwin G. Burton ’31, Clark Avenue,
Milford, Delaware, auto dealer; Wil­
liam H. Dietz ’42, Newport Gap Pike,
Marshallton, Delaware, chemist with
duPont; James R. Frorer T5, 2 Talley
Road, Wilmington 3, Delaware, VicePresident, Atlas Powder Company;
Peter D. Kaspar ’38, Huntley, Route
1, Dover, Delaware, industrial engi­
neer, International Latex Corp.;
William Edwin Lednum, Jr. ’29. St.
Michaels, Maryland, Right of Wav
Examiner, Maryland State Roads;
Norman H. Winde ’27, 508 Bellevue
Road, Wilmington 3, Del., assistant
to Production Manager, Nylon Divi­
sion, duPont.
Notices of the establishment of the
McCabe Awards have been sent to
all secondary schools and to news­
papers throughout the Delmarva
Peninsula. Although applicants must
reside within that region, it is not nec­
essary that they attend school there in
order to be eligible for consideration.
Basis of Selection

The purpose of the Awards is to
honor young men of the highest
achievement regardless of financial
need. Mr. McCabe says:
“Although the donor is strongly in
favor of the broad program of
Swarthmore and many other colleges
of giving financial aid to deserving
students who would otherwise be un­
able to afford a college education, the
Awards are to be given without con­
sideration of the financial condition
of the applicant or his family.
“Winners of the Thomas B. Mc­
Cabe Achievement Awards who need
financial help beyond the amount of
the annual Award will be eligible for
additional grants-in-aid. These will be
determined by the faculty committee
on Admissions and Scholarships in
accordance with the usual practices
of the college.”
The agreement also points out the
distinction between the Awards and
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TO ALL SWARTHMOREANS

HIS is the start of an experiment
in communication. It is the first of
a series of letters to be written to all
Swarthmore men and women every­
where to tell what the college is doing
— and why.
These letters probably will appear in
alternate issues of G arnet L etter.
Each will be devoted to some one phase
of college policy. I shall state the
policy, the reasons for it, the problems
it presents or is designed to solve. I
would then like to have your reactions
to it and your comments. Do you agree
or disagree? If the latter, what are
your suggestions for improvement?
There is today a greater alumni interest in Swarth­
more College than at any time during the past quarter
Century. It is my impression that alumni have a better
and more sympathetic understanding of the college and
its problems. The college is certainly more aware of
alumni points of view and ready to profit from useful
suggestions. The result is a heightened sense of common
concern and purpose.
This is all to the good—but there are still plenty of
natural obstacles in the way of complete understanding
between former students and their Alma Mater. After
all, the average alumnus is a busy man or woman with
all the preoccupations of earning a living, raising a
family, and participating in local community enter­
prises. Furthermore, he lives in the Middle West or
out on Long Island or some other spot too remote for
frequent visits back to Swarthmore.
The average alumnus may read the G arnet L etter.
Or he may put it aside for the quiet evening that some­
how never arrives— and ultimately throw it out with
the Sunday supplement, the British Information Office’s
pamphlet on London in the summer of 1951, and a
reprint from his Congressman on the necessity for a
firm policy in Asia.
So one gets farther away from the college each year.
You hear of changes, but aren’t quite sure what they
are. You may wonder how many of the faculty you
knew are still on the campus. You may be curious con­
cerning the current ruckus about fraternities. Why can’t
we get that settled? How did the basketball team do?
What kind of students are being admitted?
This is of course a parody, but it is hard, you will
admit, for most alumni to keep up with what is hap­

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pening at Swarthmore. The G arnet
L etter helps. So do the frequent talks
given by Joe Shane and other members
of the faculty to Alumni Clubs. Now
the Public Relations Committee, which
is composed of Board members, faculty
and alumni, has suggested these letters
as another means of communication.
Let me emphasize one aspect of this
proposal and enter one caution. It
seems to be a fundamental trait of
human nature to write more readily in
protest than in approval. The result is
apt to be a one-sided impression. Every
college president, and I suppose every
politician, comes in time to realize that
his critical mail does not necessarily reflect the views of
a majority. Nevertheless, it is discouraging to get only
the objectors’ letters even though one knows there are
others with quite different views. Your reactions both
pro and con are particularly important for this experi­
ment which is a deliberate attempt to state policy and
to sample alumni opinion.
The caution will be obvious to anyone who stops to
think about the situation. Alumni will not agree among
themselves, and the college cannot please everyone. I
will go even further. A college cannot be run by ma­
jority vote of the alumni. If a majority of the alumni
were to favor the abolition of the modern language
department or the hiring of a chess team or the aban­
donment of coeducation, the Board of Managers would
still have to decide whether such recommendations
were sound. On the other hand, it would be foolish for
the Board not to give very careful consideration to any
proposals backed by a substantial number of alumni.
If we accept the premise, as I do, that the alumni are
intelligent human beings and that they have the best
interests of Swarthmore at heart, then their judgments
deserve respect and attention.
Let me know what interests you most, and I’ll do my
best to provide some information on college policy and
practice. I hope your response will be such that we can
also do news stories on your reactions. It might add to
the fun to print some of your letters (but only with your
permission) and start a little discussion in the pages
of the. G arnet L etter.
Please remember that this is an experiment in com­
munication. It takes at least two to communicate. I’d
like to hear from you.

March, 1952

A CARNET INTERVIEW: Ross W. Marriott

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SWARTHMORE OBSERVATIONS 1906-52
Three of Swarthmore3s best known
professors are giving their last lectures
on the campus this- year. Dr. H.
Jermain Creighton, Dr. Arnold Dres­
den and Dr. Ross W. Marriott will
all retire in June. This is the first in
a series of articles about these men.
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MONG the students who arrived
on the Swarthmore Campus in
the fall of 1906 for the new school
year was a wiry, but solidly built
young man from the middle west who
had graduated the previous June from
Indiana University. The junior and
senior men on hand at the station to
greet new students, especially the new
men students, spotted the unknown
face and promptly set the newcomer
to carry girls’ bags from the station
to the dormitory, followed by various
unpleasant tasks in the dining hall.

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after the Civil War. The name
Marriott is a Norman name and
originally had an “e” on the end.
Marriotts are known to have been
among the army of William the Con­
queror when he invaded England
from Normandy in 1066. It is a name
that is still found frequently in Eng­
land. Some years ago Dr. and Mrs.
Marriott were returning from one of
his solar eclipse expeditions. On board
ship they made the acquaintance of
an English gentleman. One day Mrs.
Marriott was wearing a black,' red
and yellow vertically striped blazer
sweater to which she was particularly
attached. The English gentleman im­
mediately became interested in it and
asked her whether she had bought it
for any special reason. Mrs. Marriott
answered that actually she had bought

it only because it had taken her eye
and she liked it. She was then in­
formed that the colors of the sweater
were also the family colors of one
Charles Marriott, the founder of the
first English cricket club!
Family colors, however, were not
the sort of thing which interested a
man educated in the Illinois public
schools before the turn of the century.
Instead Ross Marriott followed an
interest implanted in him by his
father and took up mathematics. Th:s
led eventually to Indiana University.
In 1902, the same year that Ross
Marriott entered Indiana, the former
president of that school, Joseph
Swain, was taking ud a new Dost as
President of Swarthmore College.
Four years later, President Swain had
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GINGKO TREES “ ABOLISHED” BY STUDENT REFERENDUM

Dr. Ross W. Marriott

The new young man endured his
“initiation” in good spirit and in
silence. It was not until several days
later, when they met him in class,
that the upper-classmen discovered the
newcomer was not a freshman at all,
but Ross W. Marriott, newly ap­
pointed instructor in mathematics.
That and other highlights in a
teaching career of 46 years at Swarth­
more were reviewed for us recently in
an interview with Dr. Marriott upon
his approaching retirement.
Ross Walter Marriott was born in
1882 the son of an Illinois farmer who
had taken up his lands there just
March, 1952

Among the many interesting botan­
ical items on the Swarthmore campus
are some score of Gingko trees, which
are of Chinese origin. To many col­
lege generations they have been per­
haps the best known of all Swarth­
more trees, primarily because of the
evil smell of their fruit, especially
when crushed underfoot.
At the height of the Gingko fruit­
bearing season last fall, present-day
students decided enough was enough,
and circulated a petition calling upon
the college authorities “to remove, or
otherwise render innocuous the
gingko trees whose odor is offensive.”
When more than a hundred stu­
dents sign the petition, it became
mandatory for the Student Council
to hold a referendum on the subject.
This led to some research and to the
discovery that not all gingko trees
were offenders. The official announce­
ment of the referendum said, in part:
“It has long been known that ‘the
female of the species is more deadly
than the male’ and the gingko tree
appears to be merely just one more
case in point. The males are perfectly
respectable and do not smell at all,
while the fruit of the female is the
feature about the species that man­
ages to draw the most attention.”

(Editor’s note: The Student Council
is headed by a man!)
The Phoenix investigated and made
a similar report, adding:, “the male
gingkoes, however, have never been
detected engaging in this type of
anti-social behaviour.” (Editor’s note:
The Phoenix has co-editors — both
men!)
The referendum, which began to
take on some aspects of a battle be­
tween the sexes, was held on St.
Valentine’s Day' (which must have
some significance). At any rate, in a
college with 475 men and 400 women
students, the referendum resulted in
224 votes against gingkoes and 204 in
favor of them, smell and all.
Abiding by majority preference, the
college and the Arthur Hovt Scott
Arboretum agreed to confine the
fruit-bearing gingkoes hereafter to
sections of the campus where they can
bloom unsmelled by the general
public.
It wasn’t entirely a male triumph,
however, for the director of the A r­
boretum reminded everyone that “in
the case of another Chinese tree, the
Ailanthus, the situation is the oppo­
site and it is the male tree which
gives off the most objectional odor.”
(The director is a bachelor—and this
is Leap Year.)
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MARRIOTT . . .
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persuaded the late Dr. John A. Miller,
professor of mathematics and astron­
omy at Indiana to accept the same
position at Swarthmore College.
When Dr. Miller decided to come
here he brought with him two of his
students from Indiana,. One was Eg­
bert J. Miles, who stayed at Swarth­
more only one year. The other was
Ross W. Marriott, who has stayed for
forty-six!
One of Dr. Miller’s conditions on
coming here was that the college pro­
vide him with a large telescope. At
that time Swarthmore possessed only
the two small ones donated by the
retiring professor of astronomy, Susan
J. Cunningham. They were housed
in the building that now bears her
name, and which was once called the
Student Observatory. Dr. Miller’s
need was filled by a gift in 1907 of
William C. Sproul of the class of ’91,
a former pupil of Miss Cunningham
and later governor of Pennsylvania.
Ross Marriott came here to be one of
the members of the small, well-trained
staff needed to man the new telescope.
In his early twenties when he came
to Swarthmore he lived in Wharton,
or that part of Wharton which had
been built at the time, the part con­
taining A ajnd B sections.
In recalling campus life in those
days, Dr. Marriott feels that there was
more spirit among the students espe­
cially in sugh things as the affairs of
the traditional “eating clubs,” the
“Monks” and the “Devils,” and the
rivalry between the classes. For ex­
ample, after an evening spent in eat­
ing and manly conviviality in Media
or Chester, the eating clubs would
return to the campus to serenade the
coeds of Parrish. The rival club would
attempt to break it up and a general
brawl under the Parrish windows
would follow. Such things as the an­
nual water fight and the freshman
hazing period, climaxed by freshmen
running the gauntlet between rows
of paddles wielded by upperclassmen,
all made for a vigorous and spirited
life that no longer exists at Swarth­
more, he feels.
One of his own favorite pastimes
was boxing which he looks upon as a
sport of skill rather than the art of
giving and taking punishment. He
boxed with many students of those
earlier times and he recalls many
spirited fights with a scrappy 150pounder, John “Terry” McGovern of
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the Class of ’ 10. So skilled was Ross
Marriott in the manly art of selfdefense that the belief grew that he
had supported himself through college
by boxing, but Dr. Marriott denies
this by saying that he has never fought
professionally.
On the more serious side, he pur­
sued his mathematics and astronomy
career and in 1907 he received an
M.A. from Swarthmore and in 1911
a Ph.D. from the University of Penn­
sylvania.
Meanwhile the work for the new
Observatory was progressing in such
distant places as France and Germany
where the various parts were being
manufactured. A t the same time a
building for the new telescope was
being added onto what then was the
President’s House. Finally late in the
year 1912 the telescope was set up
with Ross Marriott working in the
bitter December cold making the
many adjustments necessary before
research could begin. The first obser­
vations of this kind were made in
January, 1913.
Among the early
students of Dr.
Marriott was a
young mathema­
tics major from
Philadelphia, M a­
rian Sterne, of the
class of 1913. The
T4 Halcyon quip­
ped, “Thy path­
way lies among
the stars,” and
two years after
she g ra d u a te d
from Swarthmore,
she and Ross M ar­
riott were mar­
ried.
Soon thereafter
Dr. Marriott left
the college community for the first
time since he had come in 1906. With
the pressure of World W ar I, the
1917-18 academic year was shortened
apd Commencement that year was
held in May. From May, 1918 to
September, 1919 he worked for the
DuPont Company in ballistics re­
search.
This was not the last time that he
left the campus, however, for from
1923 to 1932, he worked with Dr.
Miller on a series of expeditions that
took them to many places around the
world observing total eclipses of the
sun. The first of these was to Mexico

in 1923. Another, two years later, was
to New Haven, Connecticut. The
eclipse came during the winter months
and the work in the open made it
necessary to wear several suits of
underwear as well as a couple of pairs
of trousers. The island of Sumatra in
the Pacific seemed to be blessed by
more eclipses during this period than
any other place on the globe for there
were three seperate expeditions there,
one each in 1926 and 1927 and an­
other in 1929. During the first one to
this tropical island the entire expedi­
tion had dengue fever. On another,
the Swarthmore College group was
one of the few expeditions to obtain
photographic plates of that particular
eclipse. Clouds covered the sun during
most of the time and opened up only
briefly and in such a way that only
the Swarthmore expedition and a few
others in the same area got the valu­
able shots of the total eclipse.
In T930 Dr. Marriott worked for
the U. S. Naval Observatory on an
expedition to “Tin Can” Island again
in the South Pacific. Since the island
had no harbors and those were the
days before LST’s, this particular ex­
pedition stands out as presenting par­
ticular hardships in moving equipment
from ship to shore. Many of these
expeditions were under the jurisdic­
tion of the U. S. Navy and the scien­
tists involved were under naval
4authority and discipline. A final trip
took him to Vermont in 1932. From
this series of expeditions a valuable
collection of photographs of the sun’s
corona, the area immediately around
the sun which can only be seen during
an eclipse, was obtained.
Since that time, Dr. Marriott has
devoted himself to the numerous ob­
servations and measurements that are
necessary in the task of learning to
know the universe. But as always, his
main interest has been teaching.
Off campus Dr. Marriott is an
ardent gardener. Behind his house on
Lafayette Avenue in Swarthmore,
where he and Mrs. Marriott have
lived since 1919, is a large plot of
ground that he keeps filled with all
kinds of garden vegetables. During
Wotld W ar II, when the faculty
turned the field behind the LambMiller field house into “the College
garden,” Dr. Marriott was an active
member of the group. Undoubtedly
this will be one of his main interests
after he has retired.
March, 1952

HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
VISIT SWARTHMORE
Two hundred high school and prep
school students, headmasters and
teachers were thoroughly introduced
to Swarthmore on February 9 at the
second annual Open House for Pro­
spective Students which is an impor­
tant part of Swarthmore College’s
program of recruiting new men stu­
dents. The visitors came from as far
away as Massachusetts and Washing­
ton, D. C., in order to see the campus,
meet and talk with faculty and
students.
They saw all aspects of college life
—a variety show made up of the best
from this year’s Hamburg Show,
Skitsophrenia, — an inspection of the
Engineering and Athletic Departments
— a swimming meet with Dickinson
(we won) — and a basketball game
with Ursinus (we lost). Late Satur­
day afternoon the visitors were given
an opportunity to meet members of
the faculty in an informal pre-dinner
gathering in Student Commons.
Tours of the Campus, conducted by
members of Book and Key, were also
an important part of the day. Visitors
had a chance to meet and talk to
Swarthmore students and to attend a
tea dance in the Delta Upsilon lodge,
sponsored by the Inter-Fraternity
Council.
Although principals and head­
masters were welcome to take part in
any of the events mentioned above,
there was for them a special round­
table conference on “The Problems
Encountered in the School to College
Transition.”

NASON VISITS ENGLAND
FOR RELIGIOUS MEETING
One of the half dozen Americans
invited to attend a conference of
British teachers in Swannich, Derby­
shire, England, March 27-31, was
President John W. Nason. The con­
ference was sponsored by the Student
Christian Movement, an international
organization, and The Christian
Frontier Council, a British group.
Its main topic was “The Place of
Religion in British Universities.” It
was also attended by members of the
faculties of Oxford, Cambridge and
other British universities, as well as
six Americans and six Europeans who
are outstanding in religious work.
March, 1952

ALUMNI FUND CLASS STANDINGS
(By Percent of Participation as of March 1 )
Position
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2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
21.
22.
23.
24.
25.
26.
27.
28.

Class
1906
1907
1895
1949
1912
1941
1899
1943
1909
1951
1904
1948
1897 and 1900
1939
1901
1933
1944
1903 and 1947
1931
1936
1942
1930
1940
1910
1950
1927
1938
1917

Percent
68.05
56.45
42.85
39.42
38.63
38.42
37.50
36.58
3 5 .ro

34.29
34.14
34.09
33.33
32.80
32.55
30.76
30.54
30.43
30.38
30.17
29.65
29.25
28.88
28.57
28.53
28.49
. 28.16
27.27

Position
29.
30.
31.
32.
33.
34.
35.
36.
37.
38.
39.
40.
41.
42.
43.
44.
45.
46.
47.
48.
49.
- 50.
51.
52.
53.
54.
55.
56.

Class «
Senior Alumni
1925
1914
1928
1929
1934
1913
1946
1908
1919
1937
1932
1896
1915
1905
1945
1902
1916
1926
1920
1923
1935
1898
1922
1911
1924
1918
1921

Percent
26.72
26.62
26.49
26.16
25.94
25.92
25.42
25.10
24.52
24.40
24.25
23.83
23.80
22.93
22.64
22.35
22.22
21.81
20.23
19.32
18.30
17.94
17.50
16.57
16.32
16.27
15.38
14.14

Total Alumni Participation-—28.28%

President Nason was sent by the
Edward W. Hazen Foundation of
which he is a trustee. He and Mrs.
Nason travelled by air and in addition
to attending the conference spent a
week in Oxford and London, visiting
friends and Swarthmore alumni.
McCABE AWARD . . .
Continued from page 1

the usual types of college scholarships.
“It is the donor’s hope that the
Awards will be considered as in a
different category from conventional
scholarships which are given by col­
leges for high scholastic standing com­
bined with financial need. The donor
has the greatest respect for high schol­
arship and feels it should be encour­
aged, provided that it is accompanied
by equal development in the student’s
character, personality and social re­
lationships.
“Experience indicates that many of
our great leaders are not mental
geniuses, but men of extraordinary
character and ambition with an
awareness of human relationships and
with an excellent balance of mind,
body and spirit. The donor also ad­
mires a good athlete and recognizes
that athletic development and good
team play are to be desired, provided
that they are not over-emphasized

and that proper recognition is given
for achievement in the classroom and
for participation in other major
school activities in which success is at
least equally as indicative of leader­
ship.”
Mr. McCabe provided that after
seven years of experience, the
Achievement Awards shall be re­
viewed in order to determine whether
their objectives are being effectively
met. A provision for an entire revision
of the plan in the future, if that be­
comes desirable, is included.
“The donor is opposed on principle
to the establishment in perpetuity of
funds for restricted purposes,” he pro­
vided. “Times and conditions change
and the purposes which once seemed
important give way to others of
greater urgency. He, therefore, directs
that after forty years from January 1,
1952, the Board of Managers shall
have complete discretion to use the
principal or income or both of the
Thomas B. McCabe Fund either for
the continuation of these Awards on
some suitable basis, or for some re­
lated purpose such as scholarships and
grants-in-aid, or,' if these are not
needed at the time, then for what­
ever purpose will best serve to con­
tinue Swarthmore College as an
independent college of liberal arts.”
5

SPORTS IN REVIEW

WINTER SEASON GLOOMY;
HAVERFORD LEADS 4-1 FOR HOOD CUP
Victories during the winter sports
season were few and far between. The
basketball, wrestling and swimming
teams won only 9 and lost 23 con­
tests, but there were several individ­
uals whose performance stood out and
helped to dispel the general gloom.
Although the basketball team lost
12 and won only 4, Joe Carroll, a
junior from Knightstown, Indiana,
was the 6th highest scorer among all
small colleges of the country with an
average of 22.5 points per game.
Swarthmore gained victories over
Lehigh (a mild upset), Ursinus (an
overtime game), Drexel and Haverford.

The second game with Haverford,
however, resulted in the first basket­
ball win for Haverford since 1935.
Swarthmore had won 24 in a row.
Unfortunately it was the second game
which counted for the Hood trophy.
Wrestling record: 1 - 7

The wrestling team won only one
match and lost seven. However, we
had Hank Bode, a Baker Scholar
from Rumford, Rhode Island, who
won all except one of his bouts dur­
ing the season. The lone team victory
was over Johns Hopkins, 18-12, the
first time Swarthmore had ever
beaten the Baltimore foe. On the
other hand we suffered our first
wrestling loss in history to Haverford
in the last match of the season. It
was a typical Haverford-Swarthmore
contest, remaining undecided until
the final match, when Jack Strotbeck
defeated A. O. Atuanya, Swarthmore’s Nigerian heavyweight, by a
decision.
Swimming even: 4 - 4

Marc Merson of New York City
scores against Haverford

The swimming team finished the
season with a record of four wins and
four losses, the best team showing of
the winter season. Two new college
records were set, one by John Ridland, of Spokane, Washington (who
set a new college record for and then
lowered the 150 individual medley
relay record during the season),
the other by Dave Potter, Amherst,
Mass., who put the 50 yard freestyle
record down to 24.5 seconds.
The individual 150 yard medley
relay is a new event for the Swarth-

The Hood Trophy

At the end of the fall sports season
the Hood Trophy competition stood at
two victories for Haverford (cross­
country and soccer) and one for
Swarthmore (football).
With additional wins in wrestling
and basketball Haverford now has a
lead of 4 - 1, with the spring contests
in golf, tennis, baseball and track yet
to be played. Swarthmore will have to
win all the remaining events in order
to bring back to the Swarthmore
campus the cup which Haverford won
for the first time last year.

more swimming team. One man
swims each of the three 50 yard legs
of the race in a different fashion:
one free style, another backstroke and
another breast stroke. Ridland was the
first Swarthmore College swimmer to
compete in this event and after first
setting a' college mark, he later
lowered his own record.
Potter’s new record in the 50 yard
free style broke a record set in 1941
by Roger Frost of the class of ’42.

Somerville Sponsors Playing Card Sale
In order to help redecorate Parrish
Hall and maintain the Lucretia Mott
and Martha E. Tyson Scholarships,
the Somerville Society is sponsoring
the sale of playing cards (see picture).
The cards are garnet and white,
plastic coated and have gilt edges.
Please specify in your order whether
or not they will be used as Canasta or
Bridge decks. Canasta decks will both
be garnet, bridge decks one garnet
and one white.
The price is $2.00 per set.

ORDER BLANK
Please send---------------- sets of Swarthmore Playing
Cards.
Please check:
Bridge □
Canasta □
Enclose check payable to Swarthmore College.
Mail c/o Alumni Office.
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