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Nestled in the heart of Philadelphia's "Main Line," Haverford is the oldest U. S. Quaker college - 31 years older than near by Swarthmore, but only half as big (313 undergraduates, 63 professors...
Although less than 17% of Haverford undergraduates are Quakers, attendance is compulsory, except for those with conscientious religious objections, at Fifth Day Meeting on Thursdays in the 100-year-old Friends Meeting House. Rhinies (freshmen) wear dinks (caps), name cards on their lapels, say "sir" to privileged upperclassmen...
Longtime advocate of the honors system of teaching and study, Haverford, with an excellent reputation for scholarship, is especially proud of its freshmen's record...
...seven consecutive years during the last twelve they have stood No. 1 in the I. Q. test that the American Council on Education gives annually to some 130 U. S. freshmen classes. Tuition and expenses at Haverford run from $725 to $850 yearly. There is one professor for each five students...
...Uncle" is the undergraduate monicker for Haverford presidents. Present uncle is genial, cricket-playing William Wistar ("Uncle Billy") Comfort, highbrowed classicist and devout Quaker, who can, with equal facility, trace a word to its Sanskrit root and a piece of undergraduate mischief to its only begetter. Haverford graduate (1894) and son of a graduate, in his 23-year presidency he has doubled the college's teaching staff and endowment ($4,500,000), kept the student body and intercollegiate athletics* down. Says he: ". . . The country needs an exhibit of quality, rather than quantity in education...