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

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Professor A. Mendel, Chairman, Department of Music Professors J. B. Reese, W. Thorp, R. R. Cawley, M. Kelley, Department of English Professor E. B. Smith, Chairman, Depart- ment of Art and Archaeology story. He has, quite literally, 'Ldrunk delight of battle with fhisj peers, far on the ringing plains of windy Troy. And always what he has so gladly learned, he as gladly teaches. The highest good for him is to be able to make a wise choice. He subscribes to the Socratic doctrine, Know thyself, but is sure that no one can do this who has not first known all sorts and conditions of men and a wide variety of situations. The humanities are for him not only a vvay of life, but the way of knowing life. Resolved at all costs to liberate his own individuality, he is content with doing nothing less for his students. For, above all else, he has discovered that learning is a shared process of selffdiscovery in which he who gives most receives most. Professor P. K. Hitti, Chairman, Department of Oriental 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

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SOCIAL SCIENCES By H. Hubert Wilsoia, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Politics One of the virtues of Princeton education is the relative absence of artificial barriers between departments and disciplines. The result is that students discover early in their work here that there is no true dichotomy between the humanities and social science. Both are Concerned with man, his achievements, -his limitations, and his potential. In economics, sociology, and politics the effort is made to convey a sense of the wholeness of the Culture and the contribution to understanding that is made by various emphases and approaches. Thus the student of society finds a background of history, philosophy and literature indispensable to the analysis of phenomena which for convenience have been classified as political, or economic, or sociological He discovers that the Professor H. H. Wilson, Department of Politics Professors C. G. Sellers, Jr., G. B. Turner, R. D. Professors J. B. Whitton, A. T. Mason,W S Carpenter, Challener, Department of History Professors R. C. Snyder, R. W. Van Wagenen, Department of Politics Department of Politics