Haverford faculty in the Philips Wing of Magill Library, 1865. Courtesy College Archives.
Haverford libraries own more than 625,000 titles, including not only printed books but thousands of items in other formats—microfilm, photographs, diaries, letters, sound and video recordings, electronic publications, and miscellaneous ephemera.
Courtesy of College Archives.
The Army Specialized Training Program (or A.S.T.P.) included basic engineering, foreign area and language studies, which were taught at Haverford in 1943 and 1944, as part of the program to add non-combatant service students during World War II.
Founders Hall is the original academic building of the college and was built in 1833.
Then & Now: Founders Green Founders Hall houses the President’s office, Institutional Advancement, classrooms and faculty offices and the Great Hall, which hosts myriad social functions. Missed yesterday’s photo? See what the green looked like “Then”.
Photo by J.B. Whitson, class of 1917. Courtesy of Haverford College Special Collections.
Then & Now: Founders Green Once upon a time in the early 1900s Founders Hall featured a large, raised plaza at the steps of the building with a wide circular drive for wagons and later cars. Come back tomorrow to … Continue reading
1920s: An equipment check at the College’s then-radio station WABQ. Courtesy of College Archives.
Former WHRC DJ Jennifer C. Waits ’89 chronicles nine decades of campus broadcasting. Read “Haverford on the Radio” in the Spring/Summer 2012 issue of HAVERFORD magazine »
Haverford faculty in the Philips Wing of Magill Library, 1865. Courtesy College Archives.
Haverford libraries own more than 625,000 titles, including not only printed books but thousands of items in other formats—microfilm, photographs, diaries, letters, sound and video recordings, electronic publications, and miscellaneous ephemera.
"In the Collection" highlights some of the rare and marvelous items that are part of Magill Library's Special Collections.
In the Collection Bleak House, like all of Charles Dickens’s novels, was originally published in serial form. Issued monthly from March 1852 to September 1853, each of the 20 numbers in Bleak House contained 32 pages of text and two … Continue reading
1920s: An equipment check at the College’s then-radio station WABQ. Courtesy of College Archives.
Former WHRC DJ Jennifer C. Waits ’89 chronicles nine decades of campus broadcasting. Read “Haverford on the Radio” in the Spring/Summer 2012 issue of HAVERFORD magazine »
Haverford faculty in the Philips Wing of Magill Library, 1865. Courtesy College Archives.
Haverford libraries own more than 625,000 titles, including not only printed books but thousands of items in other formats—microfilm, photographs, diaries, letters, sound and video recordings, electronic publications, and miscellaneous ephemera.
"In the Collection" highlights some of the rare and marvelous items that are part of Magill Library's Special Collections.
In the Collection Bleak House, like all of Charles Dickens’s novels, was originally published in serial form. Issued monthly from March 1852 to September 1853, each of the 20 numbers in Bleak House contained 32 pages of text and two … Continue reading
1920s: An equipment check at the College’s then-radio station WABQ. Courtesy of College Archives.
Former WHRC DJ Jennifer C. Waits ’89 chronicles nine decades of campus broadcasting. Read “Haverford on the Radio” in the Spring/Summer 2012 issue of HAVERFORD magazine »
Fortunately, first-year students are no longer traditionally flung head-first into the Duck Pond. Photo c. 1948, courtesy of College Archives.
Traditions Each year, ‘Fords look forward to the myriad traditional events such as the Collection speaker series; pinwheel day; the annual weekend throwdown at the end of the year called Haverfest; and, most importantly, Fall and Spring Plenary.