Graduating from Fargo Central High in 1952 and then graduating with a degree in music from Swarthmore College in 1957, he was the first student at Swarthmore and the only student in his class with such a degree.

Mauchly consistently maintained that it was the use of high-speed electronic flip-flops in cosmic-ray counting devices at Swarthmore College that gave him the idea for computing at electronic speeds.

The name was changed to Swarthmore after the establishment of Swarthmore College.

The borough was originally part of Springfield Township, and grew up around Swarthmore College, which was founded in 1864.

Founded in 1864, Swarthmore was one of the earliest coeducational colleges in the United States.

Swarthmore was established to be a college, "... under the care of Friends, at which an education may be obtained equal to that of the best institutions of learning in our country.

Lucretia Mott was among those who insisted that Swarthmore be coeducational.

During World War II, Swarthmore was one of 131 colleges and universities nationally that took part in the V-12 Navy College Training Program which offered students a path to a Navy commission.

In a 2008 ranking of undergraduate programs by Forbes Magazine, Swarthmore was ranked fourth after Princeton, Caltech, and Harvard, respectively.

The team's next opponent was the Holmesburg Athletic Club which was based out of Holmesburg, Pennsylvania, and were made up of former college stars from Penn State, Penn, Cornell, Swarthmore College, Carlisle Indian School and Lafayette.

For the remaining decade of his life, Wertheimer continued to teach at the New School, while remaining in touch with his European colleagues, many of whom had also emigrated to the U. S. Koffka was teaching at Smith College, Kohler at Swarthmore College, and Lewin at Cornell University and the University of Iowa.

He was offered a professorship at Swarthmore College, where he remained on the faculty for twenty years.

While the majority of the filming took place where it was set, in the Greenwich Village area of New York City, some shooting was done in Centreville, Delaware and Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.

West was born in Springfield, Pennsylvania, in a house that is now in the borough of Swarthmore on the campus of Swarthmore College, as the tenth child of an innkeeper.

He founded the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, co-founded the Bethlehem Steel company, and was one of the founders of Swarthmore College.

When Pearson was six years of age, his father joined the faculty of Swarthmore College as Professor of Public Speaking, and the family moved to Pennsylvania, joining the Society of Friends, with which the college was then affiliated.

It is a public park which was originally laid out and owned by Joseph Wharton, founder of Swarthmore College and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

The Mary Lyon dormitories at Swarthmore College, University of Massachusetts Amherst and Plymouth State University are named in her memory.

The Quaker-founded Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania was named after Swarthmoor Hall.

The award is named for Robert W. Maxwell, a Swarthmore College football player, coach and sportswriter.

Her alma mater Swarthmore College named the Women's Center and a dormitory in her honor.

In 2009 a new observatory at Swarthmore College was named for him.

Mark Vonnegut ( whom his parents named after Mark Twain ) graduated from Swarthmore College in 1969.

Furthermore, the report also named Polytechnic as the top small school in the world for having the largest part of its students achieve a 3 or above on the AP Calculus AB examination in both 2004 and 2005 .< ref > In 2007, Polytechnic School was ranked 4th in the world by The Wall Street Journal in success rate in sending students to Harvard University, Princeton University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Williams College, Pomona College, Swarthmore College, the University of Chicago and Johns Hopkins University, higher than many older, better known east coast prep schools such as Exeter and Andover.

He was appointed as an assistant professor of psychology and linguistics at Swarthmore in 1974, and named associate provost in 1985.

In 2000, The Dance Heritage Coalition named Jones “ An Irreplaceable Dance Treasure .” Jones has received honorary doctorates from the Art Institute of Chicago, Bard College, Columbia College, the Juilliard School, Swarthmore College, and Yale University.

Solomon Asch and Wolfgang Köhler were two noted psychologists who were professors at Swarthmore.

The study found that Swarthmore ranked third among all institutions of higher education in the United States as measured by the percentage of graduates who go on to earn Ph. D .' s.

Other Levin appointees who have left to head other universities include Richard Brodhead, a former dean of Yale College, who left to become the president of Duke University, and Rebecca Chopp, a former dean of the Yale Divinity School, who left Yale to take the helm of Colgate University and is currently president of Swarthmore College.

In 1918, Blanshard married Frances Bradshaw, who would become dean of women at Swarthmore.

Other intellectuals who have taught the world view component at the institute include Dick Keyes ( L ' Abri ), Vishal Mangalwadi, James Kurth ( Swarthmore College ), David Clyde Jones ( Covenant Theological Seminary ), Jeff Myers ( Bryan College ), William Dennison ( Covenant College ), Jack White ( Geneva College ), Guenther Haas ( Redeemer University College ), and R. Albert Mohler, Jr. ( Southern Baptist Theological Seminary ).

NYU Abu Dhabi is led by Vice Chancellor Al Bloom, who took on the post in 2009 after 18 years as president of Swarthmore College.

In 2008 Orchises Press brought out a selection of McFarland's poems, Over the Summer Water, with an introduction by Hoffman, who continues to live in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.

The concept of " ethical intelligence ,” which has gained currency within and outside of higher education, was introduced by Bloom who first expressed it in his inaugural address as president of Swarthmore in 1991 and has since amplified its meaning in numerous writings and speeches.

“ Located ten miles from Philadelphia, on the line of the Central Division of the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad, three minutes walk from Morton Station – it is reached in from 20 to 30 minutes by 21 trains daily … To the west lies the magnificent Swarthmore College, and to the southeast, three miles away, lies the Delaware River … its school is one of the finest in the county ; its houses are neat and attractive, and their owners take great pride in their homes and the adornment of their grounds .”

Since the inception of the U. S. News rankings, Amherst, Williams, and Swarthmore are the only colleges to have been ranked # 1 on the liberal arts rankings list, with the three colleges often switching places with one another every year.

Swarthmore has been ranked the number one liberal arts college in the country a total of six times so far ( the most recent being in 2002 ).

Some sources, including Greene's Guides, have called Swarthmore one of the " Little Ivies ".

Only Caltech, at number one, and Harvey Mudd, in second, outranked Swarthmore, with Reed, MIT, Carleton, Oberlin, Bryn Mawr, University of Chicago, and Grinnell rounding out the top ten, respectively.

Bryn Mawr is one of the Seven Sister colleges, and is part of the Tri-College Consortium along with two other colleges founded by Quakers — Swarthmore College and Haverford College.

Swarthmore ( sic ) is one of the four houses ( Swarthmore, Firbank, Pendle, Briggflatts ) at the Quaker boarding school Bootham School in York.

Controversial in its day, the book forms one of the first Quaker statements regarding sexuality, and includes affirmation that gender or sexual orientation are unimportant in a judgement of an intimate relationship and that the true criterion is the presence of " selfless love "; further consideration arose from Harvey Gillman's Swarthmore Lecture, in 1988.

Among several lectures over the gathering, one of the highlights is known as the Swarthmore Lecture, relating to issues concerning Quakers.

He graduated in Chicago's Francis W. Parker High School in 1993, and in 1994, while a student at Swarthmore College, started his web-based diary Justin's Links from the Underground, which offered one of the earliest guided tours of the web.