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Hugh A. Sargent '56, of Haverford, Pa., and Dunster House was elected captain of the varsity soccer team for the 1955 season yesterday. He succeeds Carey McIntosh...
Sargent, a six-foot, three-inch, 100-pound graduate of Haverford School, has played left halfback on the varsity for two seasons. The biggest player on the squad, Sargent may gain a place on the NCAA New England All-Star Soccer team for his performance this fall...
Beer & Bull Sessions. Educator Hutchins moved into a suite in Haverford's Founders Hall, for five days dined with undergraduates, drank beer with them, attended their classes (he had a tough time in chemistry). In bull sessions, he got ample opportunity to deliver himself of a few long-standing peeves-and added a few new ones...
...Questions. Critic Hutchins was impressed by what he found at Haverford, tried in vain to get students to complain about the teaching. "If I were ever a college president again," he declared, "I'd try to run it on Quaker principles." His week's companions were not unanimously impressed by Hutchins. One observation: "[He] is an administrator . . . not an educational philosopher." Explained a senior: "Some of the class expected more than they got." But most agreed that Hutchins was no cautious pedant: "He's a name-dropper but not a punch-puller...
Last week Hutchins returned to deliver his scheduled Commencement address. His attentive audience found him still pleased with what he had seen. "A college is essentially a place where questions are asked . . . Haverford asks the questions. It is difficult to make a statement on this campus without having it challenged . . ." He urged an end to specialized training for graduate study or the professions: "The aim of liberal education is to produce a human being, a free man. To such an aim the wonderful displays put on by Haverford men in graduate schools . . . are largely irrelevant...