California Institute of Technology Cal Tech - Big T Yearbook (Pasadena, CA)

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another, almost every undergraduate on the campus, and although freshe men resent having anything done for their own good, in their maturer years they usually appreciate the assistance. After his own undergraduate days at the University of Manitoba DR. MACARTHUR taught English Literature and Languages at several schools, and he was for a time a social worker on Ellis Island. When he came to the Institute as. the third member of the Humanities Division he organized the campus chapter of Pi Kappa Delta, the hon- orary debating fraternity of which he was once national president. De- spite the cares for his freshmen and the prospective Ph.D. candidates to whom he teaches German and French, DR. MACARTHUR has a rare deans gaiety and a highly refined satirical wit. DEAN FREDERIC HINRICHS, 111., served in the army after his gradua- tion from West Point until he retired to accept a teaching position at the University of Rochester. When he had finished his war services in the Ordinance Department, he came to the Institute as assistant professor of mechanical engineering. He was soon made full professor and dean of upper classmen, and he intends to hold those positions as long as both he and the students benefit from their mutual association. DEAN HIN- RJCHS has earned the sincere regard of those who meet him either as teacher, dean, or helpful chairman of the Student Aid Committee. 15 FACULTY Dean Macartbur Dean Him'iclax

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FACULTY Russell Porter and ?r. 102m A. Anderson students, and alumni which has en- couraged student participation in extra-cutricular activities. EACH of RUSSELL PORTER,S explora- tions has reached farther than the last into cold and silent space. His first journey was into the Arctic with COOK on an expedition Which igno- miniously became lost, but his later voyages with PEARY and ZIEGLER, on Which he served as artist, astrono- mer, and topographer, penetrated the polar regions. During the two years he was marooned with ZIEGLER in the Arctic the observation of the stars became his passion. That astro- nomical enthusiasm continued after his return, for PORTER then began to build his own refiecting telescopes. He became so proficient in their con- 14 struction that the Institutes observa- tory council sought him in his uStella Faneii-his mountain temple to the stars-for his advice on the two- hundred inch telescope. Now, as an expert machinist and Optician, he is in charge of the Astrophysics Shop, Where the giant instrument is being built. PROFESSOR JOHN A. ANDERSON dis- likes publicity, and although he has been working on one of the most widely publicised scientific projects of the past few years, the 200-inch telescope, he declines to tell any more of himself than can be found in uXths Who. As Dean of Freshmen, DR. JOHN R. MACARTHUR helps, at one time or

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FACULTY gt, :3 Dr. lady and D13 RObEW Millikan 1 ! g; 5' PROFESSOR C. K. JUDY came to the Institute as its only teacher of English in 1909 when Tech engineers were still rough and ready and not much else. Since then there has grown un- der his direction the present excellent Humanities Division, which has the sometimes difficult task of broaden- ing and civilizing in only four years the often uncouth freshmen. PRO- FESSOR JUDY believes that taste can be improved by education, and this he attempts by making no compro- mise With vulgarity and by stirring in his students some of his own en- thusiasm for good literature and sound thought. BECAUSE the nineteenth century spirit of materialism maneuvered science into an untenable position, physics has been for the last few years in active retreat from its previous philo- 16 sophical beliefs which involved strict determinism and complete exclusion of religion. DR. R. A. MILLIKAN is the leader of many physicists who have used the uncertainties of mod- ern physics to oppose this narrow agnosticism of the past. His position is that since science can deal only with the material--and that none too successfullyeit has no right to de- liver dicta on subjects beyond the reach of its method. Deterrninisrn is dead, says DR. MILLIKAN, and its death clears the way toward the founding of beliefs which will not subordinate the spiritual side of man to sterile and hopeless materialism. WHEN PROFESSOR ROYAL SORENSON assumed direction of the Electrical Engineering Department in 1910 he intended to remain at the Institute for only five years, but he has stayed