One of the biggest upsides to The Haverford School is our modern campus. The enclosed box on Lancaster Ave is in a great position: next to Suburban Square, the Main Line, and other hot spots.
Consequently, it is small enough so no one gets lost (unlike at EA), and everyone has closer friend groups because they see each other so often.
The campus truly has whatever you need, whenever you need it.
This campus is home to the greatest brotherhood the Inter-Ac has ever seen. Classrooms are the key parts of the campus and enhance our brotherhood, they are the places we spend half our day in and that ignites us in certain topics. But what is the best classroom on campus?
Let’s rank them.
Ranking the classrooms will be based on key factors: view, positioning, tools. The top-five classrooms are presented below.
Without further ado, let’s dig in.
Classroom rank #5: Ms. Turlish’s classroom in the library. This room’s windows provide a great view of the library and Sabol Field field. This room has good tools, useful for Ms. Turlish’s class and others. Also, this classroom is also a great place to have meetings for club meetings.
Negatives include that this classroom is right next to many students studying and hanging out in the library, so it can be slightly distracting. Also, the closest bathroom and water fountain are far away.
Classroom rank #4: Dr. Del Rosario’s room, also known as Doctor D’s room. This room is on the third floor, indicating it is a pain to get to, especially coming from any parking lot or the café. However, the view is one of the best in the school. The view includes the new, modern middle school, but you get a birds-eye view of students walking by.
This classroom is next to one of the premier water fountains, and has a nearby bathroom that is not used very often. The blazing sun makes this room quite stuffy sometimes, but the blinds help with that. This room’s negative is that there isn’t much to the classroom’s tools: two whiteboards, a smartboard, and some desks.
An often overlooked prospect of these classrooms is chair positioning. Here, the chairs shape a U-facing the smart board, optimizing class discussions and teaching through the smart board and whiteboards.
Classroom rank #3: The Franz/Moore rooms. These are similar, so I will consider them the same. These classrooms only have a view of the green lot. The strength of these rooms is positioning: they are outside the best water fountain in the school and have a bathroom right next door.
These classrooms are also accessible, on the first floor next to the staircase and door next to the green lot. Finally, Mr. Moore’s room has a couch, and Mr. Franz’s room has three whiteboards.
Classroom rank #2: The woodworking space. This space has a great view; it’s surrounded by glass, and on one side you can see Centennial Hall, where students walk by. The all-glass view also helps the sunlight shine. The light does not directly hit the students, but fills the classroom with warmth.
This room stands right next to an exit near Centennial, between the green and red lots. The closest water fountain is not too far away, but according to Fourth Former Ezra Walters, “the water is warm and has a metallic, mineral taste to it.”
Classroom rank #1: The most elegant, useful, and biggest classroom is the Mr. Holdren’s music Room
Here’s where this room excels: the tools. The woodshop tools can help students with anything they need for their project. This includes top of the line materials such as laser cutters, bandsaws, and handsaws.
Classroom rank #1: The most elegant, useful, and biggest classroom is the Mr. Holdren’s music Room. The view might be the best in the entire school, as the huge windows at the back of the classroom display the entirety of Memorial Field. This is especially good when you are in that classroom after 3:00 p.m. because you can see varsity baseball and soccer practice and games.
This room, while separate from the rest of the school, has a water fountain right outside the classroom. Yes, the water that is produced from that fountain is debatable, but at least it’s a short distance from the room.
This classroom is easily accessible when coming from the café or Centennial, has built-in speakers, two white boards, a smart board, and instruments: the grand piano, electric piano, the electric drum set, and the classical electric guitars hanging up on the side of this classroom make up for the poor positioning.
The two drawbacks here are the desks, which are attached to the chairs, making it tight and clunky. The bathroom is also a long walk away.
But hey, nothing is perfect.