These "Parodies Lost" videos are how the Class of 1976 spent their virtual 45th. They include period stills and videos shortly after our time but that are recognizable in a way that today's fullsize pool and airconditioned dorms are not.

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vnya2VtiBuM
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKMcdYCnIX0
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eI_WeZ_2us
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXv1ij_T-K0
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSgwuLFQNag

These seven yearbooks centered on ours are interesting not only as individual works and photo sources but as a comparative study across a period of huge change for the College.

• 1967 Halcyon
• 1968 Halcyon
• 1969 Halcyon
• 1970 Halcyon
• 1971 Halcyon
• 1972 Halcyon
• 1973 Halcyon

The College reviewed as if by Consumer Reports -- Swarthmore College Vulture, April 1968, volume 4 number 2

The campus seen from above then and now images -- 1969 and 2022 views from above, plus 1960s topo view, including downtown and Crum. Before and after the Blue Route.

At the Computer Center: One campus, one computer

• An IBM 1620 was the College's first computer
• An IBM 1130 was the College's second computer
• Wait in line to prepare your program and data using a keypunch machine
• Using an accounting machine as a standalone card-to-print device kept long print runs from holding up the processor itself.

Rules of Stretch

In the variant known as "Stretch", the object of the game is to make the other player fall over from having to spread his legs too far apart. The players begin facing each other some distance apart with their own heels and toes touching, and take turns attempting to stick their knives in the ground outboard of the other player's feet. If the knife sticks, the other player must move his foot out to where the knife stuck while keeping the other foot in place, provided the distance between foot and knife is about twelve inches or less. Play continues until one player falls or is unable to make the required stretch. (From Mumblety-peg at Wikipedia)

Shown here is a fully functional original Sharples Dining Hall Stretch Knife used in match play in Fall 1966, at a time when College regulations still required that women competitors in the Evening Meal League risk injury by wearing skirts. This blade retains its lustre although it has not touched condiment table mayonnaise in over 50 years.