Princeton University - Bric A Brac Yearbook (Princeton, NJ)

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ENGINEERING By Kenneth Hamilton Condit, M.E., C.E., D.Eng., Dean of the School of Engineering A year or so ago the Dean of Princeton ' s School of Engineering was introduced at a meeting of mechanical engineers as the head of the most un- orthodox engineering school in the country. This statement should not, perhaps, be taken at its face value, but it is true to the extent that engineermg students at Princeton have more free electives, a far wider choice of courses than most engineering students, and the benefit of studying and living in an atmosphere that is in the broad sense, humanistic and liberal ... At the same time there is no sacri- Professor R. W. McLaughlin, Jf Chairman of Architecture Professor G. P. Tschebotarioff, F. A. Heacock, Civ l Engineering; Professor J. C. Elgin, Chan man of Cheninal Engineering Professor P. Kissam, Civil Engineering; Associate Professor E. W. Suppiger, C. p. Kittredge, Mechanical Engineering fice of rigorous requirements in science and en- gineering areas. The student ' s science preparation is above average and his engineering courses rank with any in the country . . . The program in en- gineering does two things: it prepares a student

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Assistant Professor J. R. Martin, Alt aud Archaeology Professor G. E. Bentley, English Professor P. K. Hitti, Chairmmi of Oriental Languages Department with a contemporary of Plato or Job, Aquinas or Dante, Leonardo or Shakespeare, or Charles Darwin. He roams over this past with surprising unconcern for what time has done. He telescopes it with sur- prising dexterity, or chops it up into little blocks which he labels Renaissance, or the Age of some- body, or of something. Worst of all, he treats it as if it were the present, becomes embarrassed if some- one mumbles that it is gone, blushes in confusion if someone suggests that only the modern is present. He is hopeless, but kind and sympathetic. By the administration he is tolerated because he amuses his students and causes no trouble. By his colleagues in the sciences (both social and unsocial, or should I say both natural and unnatural) he has been treated with cold disdain because at a certain moment he foolishly pretended to be scientific — and that he certainly is not. More recently, however, there has been established with them a modus vivendi , because they suspect that he does know something about values, after all, and they are said to be desperately in need of values. Lastly, by his students, he is treated as an amiable nitwit. They hover around him and ply him with questions which in his haste to talk he rarely answers. But when the going is rough, he is their friend. Doesn ' t he guard all the consolation which man has stored against man ' s lot? Associate Professor R. P. Ramsev, Religion Professors J. V. A. Fine and G. E. Duckworth, Associate Professor A. E. Raubitschek, Classics

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PkuH: mjk W. T. Thum, Jk Lhtniiitn j Ot n il Eiig neering, Professor W. C. Johnson, ChMuihvi of Eleiiind Eng iieeriiig for the profession of engineering; and it provides an excellent education for the undergraduate who likes engineering studies but hopes to carve out a career in industry or business that is not entirely technical . . . The seven regular undergraduate fields and the graduate program in Plastics combine to offer a wide range of study. In addition, the Engineer- ing-Science Options which enable a student to com- bine engineering and science provide a unique means for working out custom-tailored programs . . . Per- haps the most unorthodox characteristic of engineer- ing at Princeton is that time is available for extra- curricular activities and that engineering students are encouraged to engage in them. 1 1 1 THE MILITARY SCIENCES With the continuing critical nature of world af- fairs, the Department of Defense must look to the colleges and universities as sources of both career and reserve officers. The Army, Navy, and Air Force have ROTC units on the campus, which offer com- missions to those students who, in fulfilling the re- quire ments for a baccalaureate degree, successfully complete four years of training in their respective military or naval departments. The students attend instruction during the year which is augmented by summer training periods, the number and length of which vary with the Service concerned. In the service performed in the Army, Navy, and Air Force, ROTC graduates are fulfilling one of the most important obligations of citizenship and continuing the Prince- ton tradition of Service to the Nation. Colonel B. Thielen, U.S.A. Professor of Military Science Colonel A. J. Ball, Jr., U.S.A.F., Professor of Air Science Colonel W. F. Coleman, U.S.M.C, Prnfeu-nr of N.;r.; Scie ice