Harvard University - Red Book Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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PAUL I. SACHS M Professor of Fine Arts ARX SCHORER E . SEP Instructor in English Conxpoeiti J AN JO H SEZNEC OH Assoc, Prof, of Komumze Langunges l GEORGE W. SHERBURN Professor nl' English Assoc-inte Professor of English THEODORE SPENCER TAYLOR STARCK HENRY M. SHEFFER Professor of Pnilosophy WILLIAM THOMSON Professor of German J. R. Jewett Professor of Arabi l 'fizj O ' flifff' I I 3 - iii 2' ' , fqi , Ilflfii.. ' ' wif 'J-aes .. .- -f: Z'1ffifsff2.1e I f ....g,A,,-.ji Us ' qfgf L '?,fr,-I ' G, g vl'.-fjlw ur I I 'fx 'i5F'if -7: Y: ' . i lip' c -1 - -3 A A l O 1 - t KARL VIETOR Professor of German Literature JAMES R. WARE - JOSHUA WHATMOUGH Associate Professor of Chinese Professor of Comparative Philology ALFRED N. WHITEHEAD DONALD C. WILLIAMS Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus Associate Professor of Phllosoph Litmuer Prof. of Jewish Lit,-Phil. y Ralph Barton Perry, philosopher, was among the first to realize the threat of Naziisrn. His One Worldfinlthe Making, published in October, 1945, makes a strong plea for world unity. 1944 FREDERICK G. WHITE Faculty Instructor in English HARRY A. WOLFSON G. WALLACE WOODWORTI-I Associate Professor of Music Theodore Spencer, critic of drama and fiction, is a well-known poet. His latest book of poems, An Act of Life, appeared in

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l FREDERICK W. C. LEIDER Associate Professor of German ANDRE MORIZE Professor cf French Literature FRANCIS P. MAGOUN, IR. Prof. of Comparative Literature JAMES B. MUNN Professor of English FREDERICK C. PACKARD, IR. ARTHUR S. PEASE Associate Prof. of Public Speaking Pope Professor of Latin FRANCIS O. MATHIESSEN Prof. of History and Literature KENNETH B. MURDOCK Higginson Prof. of Eng. Literature ROBERT I-I. PFEIFFER Lecturer on Semitic Languages ' ARTHUR T. MERRITT Associate Professor of Music LEONARD OPDYCKE Associate Professor of Fine Arts ARTHUR POPE Professor of Fine Arts I CHANDLER R. POST GUILLERMO RIVERA I-IYDER E. ROLLINS JAKOB ROSENBERG Boardman Professor of Fine Arts Associate Professor of Spanish Gurney Prof. of English Literature Associate Professor of Fine Arts Walter Piston and Archibald Davison lead the Music Depart- Werner Jaeger, scholar who came here in 1938 from the Uni ment. Davison made the Glee Club the nation's best college versity of Berlin, is the greatest living authority on classical group. civilization.

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Social Sciences Despite the necessary wartime emphasis upon tech- nical, vocational, and scientific subjects, the Social Sciences have held their own, and have even expanded their influence in some fields, during the current conflict. This has happened because students and faculty alike have realized, fortunately, that the study of man's relations to man, is not something remote and peripheral, but is central to the entire contemporary scene. Training in social, historical, political, and economic problems is viewed as essential if we are to comprehend what has happened to us, and if we are to plan at all effectively for the future. Though man has used his ingenuity to develop instruments and mechanical devices of amazing efficiency and skill, he has not learned how to control himself, or how to direct the use of his machines to the best social advantage. The rise of Nazism, for example, and the war itself, are evi- dences of human immaturity and ineptitude. Recognition of this situation has produced a desire on the Part of the present day student to know more about how this war has come to be, about the great social forces loose on the globe and about the means of working to prevent a repetition of the holocaust. As a result history, economics, sociology, political science, psychology and anthropology have seemed eminently prac- tical, and in many ways just as vital to our well-being as other subjects more closely related to the actual tasks of achiev- ing military victory. The Social Sciences, therefore, have acquired new importance, and appreciation of their significant role in the modern world has increased enormously. Payton S. Wild Alvin H. Hansen is one of the world's leading economists. ,., ea 5