Excerpt from A History of Haverford College: For the First Sixty Years of Its Existence; Prepared by a Committee of the Alumni Association We know not your Haverford of to-day; a new observa tory, you tell us; new gate-posts of massive granite, cushions in the meeting-house, four colored men in the dining-room - O our Sabine homeliness amid these Persian trappings! Two years ago, at the Great Feast, l we heard a brother cry: Away with these signs of caterers and such un-roman luxury (truly, this was after he had put aside the desire of meat or drink), and give me a half-hour of Jo and Amos and Shanghai I. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.