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Through the Woods

♫Over the Crum and through the woods/to Swarthmore College we go♫ Nixon’s Vice President, Spiro Agnew, once allegedly called Swarthmore the “Kremlin on the Crum.” Swarthmore’s Alma Mater says “Ev’ry ripple of Crum’s water/Is a greeting clear.” The Crum Woods are a

November 21, 2024

Highlights·Opinion

Seeing More by Understanding Less: Lessons From a Walk in the Woods

In our lives at Swarthmore, and indeed in most scenarios in our everyday lives, we are rewarded for quickly absorbing, synthesizing, and making sense of new information. Think about it: in a political science or philosophy class, we generally need to read

February 23, 2023

Opinion

Saying Goodbye

The summer I was eleven I got a hand-me-down dress from my cousin. The dress was perfect. It was pale green with little orange flowers and it fit exactly right. It wasn’t frilly. It was simple and wonderful. Wearing it made me

April 27, 2017

Opinion

Mushrooms, Mushrooms, Mushrooms!

On Saturday, January 28th, one of my more strange – yet important – dreams came true! I taught a class called MUSHROOMS, MUSHROOMS, MUSHROOMS! at Peripeteia Weekend. My opening slide quoted well-known Mycologist Paul Stamets. It read: “Fungi are the grand molecular

February 2, 2017

College·News

As Construction Levels Crumhenge, College Plans for Aftermath

Editor’s note: This article was initially published in The Daily Gazette, Swarthmore’s online, daily newspaper founded in Fall 1996. As of Fall 2018, the DG has merged with The Phoenix. See the about page to read more about the DG. If you

October 21, 2015

Campus Journal

A secret garden in the Crum, along with a rich history

Sweating, mosquito-bitten, and exhausted by my first few weeks at Swarthmore, I had just given up on a run in the Crum when I noticed something strange on the bank of the creek: a crumbling stone staircase emerging from beneath the brush.

September 4, 2014

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Through the Woods

Seeing More by Understanding Less: Lessons From a Walk in the Woods

Saying Goodbye

Mushrooms, Mushrooms, Mushrooms!

As Construction Levels Crumhenge, College Plans for Aftermath

A secret garden in the Crum, along with a rich history

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