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Creating art on Sharples trays is a longstanding tradition. 

Two students inspired a total stranger to leave Swarthmore more than $300,000.

Janet Lockard ’60 volunteers for a nonprofit that rescues former racing greyhounds.

In 1684, a local Swedish woman was accused of witchcraft.

Pinar Karaca-Mandic ’98 was moved to action by the death of 3-year-old Syrian refugee Alan Kurdi.

At 104, she may have been our oldest living graduate.

“Language is such a miracle,” says author and editor Daniel Menaker ’63.

Each Monday, 11 volunteer flower arrangers take turns going bouquet-shopping through Scott Arboretum.

When it came to ants, Carl Rettenmeyer ’53— like the insects—more than carried his weight.

When Philip Weinstein read Jonathan Franzen ’81’s third and fourth novels, he was stunned.