Haverford College Catalog 1979-1980
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HAVERFORD COLLEGE CATALOG 1979-1980 SECfiON 1 1HECOLLEGE Calendar Purpose History Resources SECfiON 1HEPROGRAM 2 Admission Expenses Financial Aid Curriculum, Requirements and Related Matters SECfiON 3 COURSES OF INSTRUCTION Numbering System Departments SECfiON STUDENT SERVICES AND ACTIVITIES 4 Health Program Counseling Services Career Planning Student Government Student Organizations and Publications SECfiON 5 FELLOWSHIPS AND PRIZES Phi Beta Kappa Endowed Fellowships for Haverford Graduates Foundation Awards for Haverford Undergraduates Prizes and Awards SECfiON FACUL1Y AND ADMINISTRATION 6 Faculty Administration College Visitors on Special Funds Corporation and Board of Managers SECfiON ALUMNI Alumni Association Alumni Clubs 7 Alumni Admissions Information Program SECfiON SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION 8 Index Directory Campus Map Haverford College Calendar 1979-1980 FIRST SEMESTER September 1979 First-year students arrive (Customs Week) ....................................................................... Sat. I Transfer students arrive .................................................................................................. Sun. 2 Returning students arrive ............................................................................. Tue. 4 and Wed. 5 New students' academic course registration to be completed by ................. 5:00 p.m. Wed. 5 Upperclassmen register for Physical Education courses (Fall and Winter I Quarters) ...................................................................................... Wed. 5 Opening Collection ....................................................................................... 8:00p.m. Wed. 5 First Semester classes begin ............................................................................ 8:30a.m. Thu. 6 First faculty meeting ...................................................................................... 4:15 p.m. Thu. 6 Readmitted students' academic course registration to be completed by ...... 5:00 p.m. Fri. 7 Final academic course registration verification ···························;··· Tue. 18, Wed. 19, Thu. 20 October Last day to request no-numerical-grade option ........................................... 5:00 p.m. Mon. Last day for dropping a course without penalty ............................................. 5:00p.m. Fri. 5 End of one-half-semester courses ..................................................................................... Fri: 19 Fall Vacation .......................................... Begins 4:00p.m. Fri. 19 and ends 8:30a.m. Wed. 24 Fall Quarter Physical Education courses end Fri. 26; Winter I Quarter courses begin Mon. 29 November Registration for Physical Education Winter II and Spring Quarters Mon. 12 through Fri. 16 Registration for Spring semester academic courses ............................ Mon. 12 through Fri. 16 Thanksgiving Vacation ....................... Begins 4:00p.m. Wed. 21 and ends 8:30a.m. Mon. 26 December Last day of classes and Physical Education Winter I Quarter ...................................... Tue. II Reading period (self-scheduled examinations may be taken) ................. Wed. 12 and Thu. 13 All papers (except those in lieu of examinations) due by ............................ 4:00 p.m. Thu. 13 Laboratory notebooks and papers in lieu of examinations due as scheduled by instructor but not later than ....................................................................................... 4:00p.m. Mon. 17 MIDYEAR EXAMINATIONS ............................................................ Fri. 14 through Thu. 20 Midyear Vacation .................................. Begins 8 a.m. Fri 21 and ends 8:30a.m. Mon. Jan. 14 4 January 1980 Grades due in Recorder's Office .................................................................................... Mon. 7 Second semester classes and Physical Education Winter II Quarter courses begin ........................................................................................................... 8:30a.m. Mon. 14 Final academic course registration/verification ............................... Thu. 24, Fri. 25, Mon. 28 February Last day to request no-numerical-grade option ........................................... 5:00p.m. Wed. 6 Last day for dropping a course without penalty .......................................... 5:00 p.m. Mon. 11 End of one-half-semester courses ..................................................................................... Fri. 29 Physical Education Winter II Quarter courses end ......................................................... Fri. 29 March Physical Education Spring Quarter courses begin ....................................................... Mon. 3 Spring Vacation ....................................... Begins 4:00p.m. Fri. 7 and ends 8:30a.m. Mon. 17 Applications for Cope and Murray Graduate Fellowships due in President's Office .... Fri. 28 April Sophomore registration cards due in Academic Dean's Office ........................ -4:00p.m. Fri. 4 Registration for Fall (1980) semester academic courses ........................ Mon. 7 through Fri. 11 Applications for Financial Aid due in Admissions Office .............................................. Fri. 18 Prize competition manuscripts due in Recorder's Office ................................................ Fri. 18 Physical Education Spring Quarter courses end ............................................................. Fri. 25 Last day of classes ............................................................................................................. Fri. 25 Reading period (self-scheduled examinations may be taken) ........... Sat. 26, Sun. 27, Mon. 28 All papers (except those in lieu of examinations) due by ............................ 4:00p.m. Tue. 29 Senior comprehensive examinations .............................................. Mon. 28, Tue. 29, Wed. 30 May FINAL EXAMINATIONS FOR SENIORS .......... Tue. Apr. 29 through 12:00 noon Mon. 5 Laboratory notebooks and papers in lieu of examination due as scheduled by instructor, but not later than ....................................................................................... 4:00p.m. Tue. 6 FINAL EXAMINATIONS FOR ALL OTHER STUDENTS ............................. Tue. Apr. 29 through ........................................................................................................... 7-10 p.m. Fri. 9 Oral examinations for College Honors ................................................ Mon. 5, Tue. 6, Wed. 7 Final faculty meeting ..................................................................................... 9:00 a.m. Thu. 8 COMMENCEMENT ..................................................................................................... Mon. 12 Parents' Day,. October 13, 1979 5 Statement of Purpose for Haverford College Haverford College seeks to prepare men and women for lives of service, responsibility, creativity and joy, both during and after college. The College shares with other liberal arts colleges of academic excellence: a commitment to open inquiry by both its students and faculty, com bined with rigorous appraisal and use of the results of that inquiry; an emphasis on a broad education in the natural and social sciences, the humanities and the arts, combined with strong competence in at least one field of the student's choosing; an educational program that aims more at preparing persons to think and act clearly, boldly and humanely in whatever life work they choose than at training for specific professional careers. The College's distinctive character comes from its striving for: candor, simplicity, joy and moral integrity in the whole of college life in keeping with Haverford's Quaker traditions•; a harmony for each person among his or her intellectual, physical, social, esthetic and spiritual concerns; a creative use of smallness that places students in the closest contact with dedicated scholars in the pursuit of knowledge; a sense of community marked by a lasting concern of one person for another and by shared responsibilities for helping the College achieve its highest aims; a system of responsible self-government in the student body and in the faculty; a balance for students and faculty between disciplined involvement in the world of action and detachment to reflect on new and old knowledge alike. In sum, the College seeks to be measured, above all, by the uses to which its students, graduates and faculty put their knowledge, their humanity, their initiative and their individuality. • In 1976 the Board of Managers adopted a detailed reassessment of the College's Quaker foundations which says, in part, "A prime focus of Quaker education is on the value and uniqueness of each individual student, where each is seen worthy of patient personal attention, where each contributes to, and draws sustenance from, the group in distinctive ways. The College must take care to ensure that its students continue to feel part of a small and caring community ... Haverford is different from other liberal arts colleges of academic distinction-a difference that is continually confirmed in the dedication of its faculty and staff and in the extraordinary loyalty of its alumni. It is expressed in the openness and candor of discussions on budgets, in the close relationships that develop among faculty, administration, staff and students, in the community's response to human crises, in its caring for the land and trees. It is above all here, in the daily round of college life, that Haverford nurtures the