Sayed Dreams of BirdsSpring 2016Avian and otherwise, rare birds abound at Swarthmore. Among the many roosting in the College’s Peace Collection is Horace Gundry Alexander, a world-famous pacifist, Quaker, and adviser to Mahatma Gandhi. Nowhere in the 14 boxes of papers by the Englishman who eventually moved to Swarthmore is there more passion than in the slim folder, “Writings re: birds.”
Birds of a Feather: Swarthmore Student PublicationsSpring 2016A gallery of avian-inspired student publications available online.
Adventures in the ArboretumSpring 2016Josh Coceano went from Scott Arboretum intern to the College’s full-time horticulturist.
Absolute ValueSpring 2016It is a truth universally acknowledged that math class can be boring. But it doesn’t have to be, according to Dan Finkel ’02. An elementary-school math whiz who went on to exhaust his district’s math resources halfway through high school, Finkel eventually majored in mathematics at Swarthmore before earning a Ph.D. in the subject at the University of Washington.
Woven EnchantmentSpring 2016David Fraser, Swarthmore president from 1982 to 1991, mastered weft-twined Bedouin weaving and wrote the definitive book on the subject.
Dead Authors’ SocietySpring 2016Interested in brushing up on your Latin this summer by reading medieval texts full of action, adventure, and theology?