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tendent (a title that was used interchangeably with principal), a teacher,
office of the managers, infirmary, library, and an additional classroom.
There were twenty-one students enrolled in that first term. Their ages
ranged from twelve to twenty. Room, board, and tuition were $200.
Even before the school opened, seven books by William Sewell, George
Fox, John Selden, Joseph Besse, William Penn, and Samuel Fisher were
donated to the library; shortly thereafter came a number of manuscripts.
The only periodical that could be read by students was The Friend, an Orthodox
publication.
By 1834, the students had a debating society (short lived) and the Loganian,
a society for “the promotion of literature and science.” The latter
was a major influence in the education of students and had the flavor of
a fraternity, though officially fraternities were banned. The Loganian Society
library had its own classics, religious texts, and scientific works. Its
1850 catalog lists 376 books; by 1887, when it became part of the main library,
the number was up to 2,500.
THE SECOND THROUGH FOURTH PRINCIPALS
John Gummere (1784–1845), who had studied and taught at Quaker
schools, was Haverford’s second and fourth principal, serving 1834–1838
and 1839–1843, with an intervening tenure by Isaac Davis (1783–1849), an
overseer of Philadelphia Monthly Meeting for the Northern District. By
the age of forty-five, Gummere was considered one of America’s foremost
mathematicians. Among the Haverford boys, Superintendent Gummere
was known as “Agathos” (the good).
In 1835, the college hired William Carvill to create a landscape design.
With Carvill’s design, trees bordered open spaces, trees created alleys,
and lanes were lined with plantings, leaving some virgin wooded areas
and open spaces. There has been no individual influence on the design of
the campus since Carvill, who left Haverford in 1844. Today, the campus
design is of repeating greens, groups of buildings, and open spaces with
extended vistas, all bounded by a number of gates.
DANIEL B. SMITH (1792–1883),
THE FIFTH PRINCIPAL, 1843–1845
Daniel B. Smith was also one of the school’s founders and teachers. During
his administration, rules for students included use of plain language
and dress (in general, students did not attend to much washing of dress),
avoiding smoking, and reading only approved books and periodicals. In