Pomona College - Metate Yearbook (Claremont, CA)

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OBJECTIVITY Members out He Mafh erabC consisf of Hugh HamiHon. Edward Tay- lor, Ches+er Jaeger. and Orville Harrold. Civilians. Influenced by He demand for +echnical experfs and perhaps by +he example se+ by +he uni- formed sfudenfs on +he campus. filled science and ma+hema+ics classes +0 recerd capacify. Women. herefofore inclined +0 avoid Jrechnical courses. now carry calculus books. slide rules. and laborafory aprons. Each day sfudenfs spend +he affernoon over fesf-fubes in Jrhe labs of Mason Hall under +he super- vision of Dr. Charles Robinson Hem. Unfil March, men of Pomona's A.S.T.U. were engaged in doing similar work in adjoining labs. Mafhemchs was roufed from 1+5 home in Pearson Hall during +he sfay of +he army a+ Pomona. and classes assembled in Masons and Crookshank. The mafhemafics factu was under special sfrain while +he armed unifs were here. bu+ +hey did no+ lef Hue civilian sfudenfs down. Dr. Jaeger. Pro- fessor of Mafhemafics. evidenced superhuman vifalify by appearing as en+er+ainer af several school 1cunc+ions aHer a full day of work. Pomona has senf 0qu well- +rained sfudenfs of mafh and science +0 do +heir par+ in Jroday's fechnical world.

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Europe bred Carl Baumann. Head of +he German Deparfmenf. infroduces Jrhe spirif from across +he wafers info campus and communify acfivifies. As head of +he local Rofary Club he amply fulfills Jrhe laHer funcfion for +his year. His Confinenfal Lif course is a musf on pracfically every senior's lisf. Parficularly in fimes when infernafional undersfand- ing is so vifal +0 +he survival of men+al balance in +he mad march of evenfs have his clear. well- JrhoughiL pronouncemen'rs been welcomed by Po- monans. His popular discussion of Russia has been reques'red by clubs JrhroughouwL +his secfion of +he sfafe. Wifh his quick wif and vifal background Herr Baumann has made a definife confribufion +0 our speeding civilizafion. Fellow workers in +he English Depar+men+ are Wesferner Lincoln and Rhodes Scholar Davis. Renowned for his dry humor and pulp s+ories his creafive wrifing classes are popular wi+h +hose who would express +hemseives in +his manner. Inspiring a long lineof budding Pomona au+hors. Mr. Lincoln may look back across fields of fruif- ful sowing and forward +0 ever widening iields of rich. unframmeled loam. The broad experience of Hal Davis adds exfra inferesf +0 his popular Iiferafure courses. Six men; six media. Each one may find his pafh wifhin +his varied seHing. The men in +he armed service benefiHed immeasurably from +heir confacf wifh +hese men. Each one in deparfing will bear somefhing of +heir spirit and one may devine +his feeling in all +heir fuiure works. If is +heir efforf here found. +heir indusfry which has con- fribufed so much +0 mark so disfinguishingly and dis- finguishably +ha+ inferprefafion of universal phenomena which is revealed in Jrhe expressions 01c Pomona men and women. Versafile creafors wifhin Jrhe English deparfmen+ are Lincoln. above leH. and Davis. left-

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Picfured af far righi' is Roland Tilesfon conferring wi'rh L+. Du Bois on +he problems of Jrhe Army unifs. Af right William HiHon' relaxes for a mo- memL as he poses for +he pho+ographer. To give direcfion. +0 give meaning. +0 give undersfanding; such is Jrhe obiec+ of our liberal arfs educafion and such is Jrhe need of +he sfuden'rs foday. This has been Dr. HiHon's Iasf year as an acfive member of Jrhe regular sfaff. He leaves feaching for research and erudy . . . Jrhis fime iJr will be salamanders ra+her ihan Frosh who are +he obiecfs of his mind. bu+ wi+h his leaving. one of Pomona's finer Jrradiiions goes and wiJrh if goes Jrhe head of one of +he deparfmenfs +ha+ give obiecfiva +0 our JrheoreJrical s+udies. Perhaps Jrhe iinesf Jrribu'res +0 Dr. HiHon arer+he graduafes who have been his sfudenfs and who have made Pomona famous. Dr. Tilesfon has been more a possession of Jrhe Army unifs Jrhan civilian s+uden+s +his year . . . cramming info Jrhem more knowledge of +he world oi physics ihan sad civilians can enjoy. H has been his iob +0 coordinafe Jrhe Science Deparfmenfs +0 +he requiremenfs and needs of +he A.S.T.P. and wifh +hese combine Jrhe ever growing needs +0 fif +he demands of a sfucienf body now fully aware of +he value and +he place of science sfudies in fiHing requiremenfs of poswL graduafe days. Their obiecfive . . . knowledge. knowledge of wea+her phenomena. of +he laws of +he earfh. knowledge +0 prepare +hem for specific jobs. iobs which mus+ be done all over Jrhe world. and jobs which musf be done by Jrrained hands. Bofh Mr. Whifney and Mr. Tyson have more +han shared +he eerra demands placed upon +he factu by +he increased sfudenf body . . . a job made even more diificuhL by +he accelerafed schedules and by vacillafing requiremenfs which musf consfanHy be fiHed +0 war needs. Through +he producfion of 250.7 mefeorol- ogisfs bo+h +he faculfy and +heir younger uneducaied friends learned of new and far reaching horizons in asfron- omy. geomefry. and physical sciences: and +he engineers +ha+ came and wen'r leH in our minds +he conscious knowl- edge +ha+ in order Jro help we mus+ learn. Yes. perhaps even more Jrhan +he missing Pomona men if is +hrough +he presence and associa+ion wifh +he army fraining program +ha1L Pomona has become aware 01c +he war; if is +hrough Jrhem +ha+ Pomona has served her mosf vifal funcfion; and H is +hrough +hem +ha+ mos+ of us have gained new under- sfanding of +he value oi our educa+ion and we have added obiec+ivi+y. Richard Tyson. leH. has assumed +he many dufies as ac+ing head of +he Chemisfry Deparfment in addifion +0 his many research proiecfs.