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

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Professors M. E. Coinclreau, A. L. Foulet, E. B. O. Borgerhoif, Depart- ment of Modern Languages and Literatures Professor W. Oates, Chairman, Department of Classics and that true education begins and ends in the disinterf ested pursuit of selffperfection. This is not to say, as is too often said, that the humanist has no regard for facts. Quite the contrary, his appetite for them is insatiable, whether in his own field, in allied provinces of the humanities, or in those vast outlying tracts to which the natural and social sciences have staked out their claims. But although no fact is altogether alien to his curiosity, the humanist will never simply let it stand on its own merits and speak for itself. He must always he exploring its relations to the nonffactual. He Professors J. V. A. Fine, A. E. Raubitschek, F. C. Bourne, S. D. Atkins, G. E. Duckworth, Department of Classics Professor E. T. Dewald, Department of Art and Archaeologyg Professor D. D. Egbert, School of Architecture i t Ti .

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Professor R. W. McLaughlin, Jr., Director, School of Architecture 9 , v, ffff ,f. ffff X t f - 1 ' ' Q R 'E Professor L. Wlood, Chairman, Department of Philosophy O :- su ... S 'U A rx : o V Ph 8 Cl 3 IU ,U re m -x G 5 . fb i F CU 3. S? CD S1 I' on -'IT ln :- iff . .N -- 'MfrwQ':sx., ' 1- E af - V- XM-9-xxiszf .. L . ,.s., i t f ' ' ..... 5 1 M - - .rr A mf - t-I -.0 , V f Professor R. S. Willis, Department Of Modern Languages ana' Literatures Professor T. C. Young, Department of Oriental Languages and Literaturesg Professors R. P. Ramsey, G. F. Thomas, Chair- man, Department of Religion. pay off? . It's not that the humanist flnds himself stum-ped for la reply. Indeed, there start popping into his head those letters he is always getting from former students, hecome successful engineers or car salesmen, lawyers or real estate agents-letters assuring him -that if they had it to do over, they would again major in modern languages or philosophy. No. If your humanist would like to place an emfhargo on such questions, it is because he doggedly persists in believing that knowledge is its own reward, 17 Professor W. Silz, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures.

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Professors G E. Bentley, R. M. Ludwig, W. S. Howell, Department of English is impelled to find connections, to educe patterns, to build hypotheses. In his handling the fact undergoes a sea' change. It is alchemically converted, as it Were, into something rich and strange. It becomes a symbol, the repositor of values. In this age of excessive specialization, the humanist remains .an incorrigible synthesizer. Separate disciplines have a way of merging in his thinking. He refuses to be confined by departmental barriers. His habit of mind is allfinclusive. The more humble he becomes about his own competence and the more reluctant ever to be dogmatic, the more daringly he takes all learning as his 'appointed realm. V The 'humanist lives in a dimension all his own. You would be surprised to find out the places he has been, the things he has done. Yet his experience is not thus to be measured, for it is cofextensive with the human Professors E. T. Cone, OL Strunk, J. M. Knapp, Department of Music Professor I. O. Wade, Chairman, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures Professors A. Elsasser, E. L. Hubler, J. Thorpe, Department of English