Mission: Swarthmore

The Art of Quagmire

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Big Snow

2010-02-10T20:31:00.000-08:00

The Blizzard of 2010 attacked Swarthmore...

Photos courtesy Parth Lakhani '10

The Day Before the Day of

2009-08-24T11:20:00.001-07:00

Graduation

2009-06-01T07:25:00.000-07:00

Senior Art Show

2009-05-08T06:18:00.001-07:00

Return of the Big Chair!

2009-04-29T05:51:00.001-07:00

First Snow, Fall 2008

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We're an arboretum, so yes--we do identify all of our plants!

Senior Portrait

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Swarthmore is AT&T Country

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Still-Lifes before Majestic Buildings

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Secret Jungle

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Student Portrait(s)

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David Kemp (the New New Dorm)

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Studio

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In Residence

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Preparations

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Garnet Men's Soccer

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The Garnet men's soccer team traveled to Buenos Aires this summer for pre-season training. As part of the trip they took part in a community service project, which included painting a children's playground and (what else?) playing soccer with the boys. The soccer games quickly became heated, and what had begun as "orderly" soon degenerated into fun rivalry.

"You'd look around, and they'd be swimming around you!" Omari Faakye '10 laughed, his friend, Ernesto Manzo '11, adding, "It was more like rugby. They would pick up the ball and run, so we'd do the same, and pretty soon it was a free-for-all. They were so into it!"

Here they are, slogging up Magill after practice:

Clouds over Old Tarble

2008-06-16T15:19:00.000-07:00

Consortium

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Precious Moments

2008-05-07T16:58:00.000-07:00

Notes from Parrish

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Spring Comes to Swarthmore

2008-04-11T18:02:00.001-07:00

Found Shrine

2008-04-10T21:05:00.000-07:00

Greeting me this morning on my way into Parrish:

Big Snow II

2008-02-23T23:46:00.000-08:00

Joys of snow:

Big Snow

2008-02-23T23:28:00.000-08:00

The first real snowstorm swept Swat late this week, and the campus is blanketed in a gorgeous expanse of white. Students are building snowmen; parents are bringing their children in to go sledding down the hill behind either McCabe Library or the Clothier Bell-tower. Everything has become pristine, and so very, enchantingly Gothic.

Theresa Lang Fragrance Garden

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The Therese Lang Fragrance Garden is tucked away behind the arches of Clothier and can be accessed from Tarble or from the steps by the belltower. The garden serves as the courtyard for the Intercultural Center.

Tarble at Dusk

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Snow Day

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Caught in the Netting

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...someone put a College Course Catalogue to sleep in the mosquito netting display...

Orphaned Adirondacks

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Magill By Dusk

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Effectively, the moat guarding the keep.

John W. Nason

2007-10-20T22:58:00.002-07:00

The Nason Garden and Outdoor Classroom is named for the seventh president of Swarthmore College, who "helped get more than 3,000 American students of Japanese descent out of detention camps and place them in institutes of higher learning" during World War II (The New York Times, November 2001).

According to the Scott Arboretum website, the Nason Garden was specially planted to be enjoyed during each season. Its horticultural foundation is plant texture and it features both "bold" and "fine" textures. Texture is defined as the "overall structure of a plant, which includes the leaves, the form and even the bark" (Scott Arboretum, 2006 ).

The plants in the garden include the prickly pear, the Japanese Maple, plantain-leaf sedge, spike winterhazel, switch grass, tiger eye sumanc, and oxeye daisies. For a complete listing, please see the Arboretum brochure on the garden.

Fallen Bloom

2007-10-20T22:56:00.000-07:00

Found Art

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Caer Paravel

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Clothier Hall

Designed in 1929 by Karcher and Smith and completed in 1931; Collegiate Gothic style.

The main student center (it houses a dining facility, the main party space, an all-campus space, a mini pool hall, the SCCS lounge, and the bookstore) and also the campus timekeeper (the bells ring every 15 minutes).

Seat of a student meeting in 1969, when African American students agitated around the issue of admissions policies towards admitting Black students to the college:

"At 12:15 pm on Thursday January 9, members of SASS occupied the Admissions Office. They taped black paper to the windows, locked the doors, and asked the admissions officials to leave. At 2:15, they called press conference in the College Commons...They presented their earlier demand again, adding the demands that Blacks be included in the process of implementing all relevant College policies, and that no disciplinary action be taken against them. Several hundred students met in a session in Clothier Hall that evening. They endorsed the SASS demands, and asked the faculty to postpone all academics for two days. About 100 students walked out of the meeting to plan more radical action, agreeing to endorse the SASS takeover of the Admissions Office. " excerpt from The Phoenix, March 7, 1966

Trivia: Clothier Hall was part of a series by Wedgewood. Produced in 1941, this Queensware plate features a maroon graphic of the hall, and is framed by Quaker symbols on the rim of the plate. The back is labeled with the name of the building, the College name, and a brief Wedgewood inscription.

Wedgewood also made a similar plate bearing an image of the Quaker Meeting House on Swarthmore's campus.