Chamber Singers will be featured during the Inauguration
of Stephen Emerson as 13th President of Haverford College

Saturday, October 6 at 3:00 p.m.
on the green in front of Roberts Hall

Performing a new work called "Sojourn"
for choir and four violins by Thomas Lloyd
to a text by Albert Einstein:

How strange is the lot of us mortals!

Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it.

But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people –

• first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent,

• and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy.

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men [use “others”], living and dead,

and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving...

Einstein, from “The World as I See it” (Mein Weltblick) - 1931 http://www.aip.org/history/einstein/essay.htm