Harvard University - Red Book Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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The Administrative Board makes the iinal decision on severing connections. Deans Leighton and Bender present their recom- mendations to the other members, elected yearly. Left to right, two dozen libraries scattered throughout the University. Philip McNiff is the Librarian of the new Lamont Library. For those few who played too little or too much there is the Hygiene Department headed by Dr. Arlie V. Bock. Cops and Cyclotrons The Business Oiiices of the University are headed by Edward Reynolds who holds the impressive title of Adminis- trative Vice President. After Aldrich Durant retired as Business Manager in 1948, the position was abolished. Bustling Lehman Hall, its bookkeepers, secretaries, tellers, and IBM machines, functions under the direction of R. B. Perry, Bursar, and Howard Smith, Comptroller. William A. Heaman replaced Roy Westcott in 1947 as Manager of the Dean Dyer, former Director ofScholarships now heads the Office Of Tests. As Chairman of the Committee on Administration, Dr. Gummere is able to admit only one out of every four applicants. Delmar Leighton is Dean of Freshman. Assisting him when the Henry Dyer, Leighton, Bender, Watson, and Professor Munn. Dr. Gummere, and Professors George Homans and C. H. Taylor were also members of the 1949 Board. much beset Dining Hall Department. Prescott Vose, suc- cessor to Purchasing Agent W. G. Morse, buys everything needed by the University from pencils to cyclotrons. Mr. Biggar administers the University's real estate assisted by Mr. Stewart's Department of Caretaking and Chief Randall and his force of uniformed Yard Cops. Fund-raising is in charge of Keith Kane who holds the deceptive title of Special Adviser to the President. Besides these departments of the administration there are of course many others, for example a repair bureau for University-owned typewriters. The academic purist may object to all this materialism going on in a temple of learning. But a modern University is much more than jim Conant at one end of a log and a student at the other. Class of '46 were freshmen were Edward Fox, now teaching history at Cornell, and Professor Frederick Deknatel of the Fine Arts Department. Leonard Holvik also helped out during the 1942 summer term. DYER GUMMERE LEIGHTON FOX DEKNATEL

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Robert Watson, as Associate Dean, handles the complaints of the extra-curricular organizations against the powers or policies that be. Bender, while Dean Leighton and five or six other elected Faculty members form the rest of the body. Although the power of decision rests with the Administrative Board, the recommendation of the Dean presenting the matter is almost always followed. To take the matter to the Administrative Board is an elaborate way of passing the buck. fTeddy Roosevelt would have called the whole setup an interlocking directorate, which it admittedly is. It exists, however, for useful and benevolent ends.j Five Million Books Also housed in University Hall are a host of other ad- ministrative officers: Registrar Sargent Kennedy who suc- ceeded Reginald H. Phelps, Associate Dean Robert Watson, Director of Scholarships F. Skiddy von Stade who replaced Henry S. Dyer, now Director of the Ofii ce of Tests, and Richard The Deans in 1948. In the usual order, james Ducey, Assistant Registrar, Judson Shaplin, Dan H. Fenn, jr., Sargent Kennedy, The Director of Scholarships, F. Skiddy von Stade, jr. adminis- ters a yearly undergraduate scholarship fund of 3534o,o0o. M. Gummere, Chairman of the Committee on Admissions. The College hierarchy now spreads into Weld Hall and housed there are john Munro, Counsellor for Veterans, john Teele, Director of the newly formed Ofiice of Student Placementg William Pinkerton, Director of the University News Ofiice- there is no such thing as a Publicity Office, and john Holt, now Director of the Ofiice of Student Employment, replacing Charles Duhig. Other administrative officers who frequently come in contact with the students are Captainjohn Keppler, now Counsellor for Foreign Students and William G. Perry, Director of the Bureau of Study Counsel. University Hall, important though it is, is only part of the administration. Keyes DeWitt Metcalf, Librarian of Harvard University, is ultimately responsible for the where- abouts of five million books and pamphlets housed in some Registrar, Delmar Leighton, Wilbur Bender, Otis Minot, Ross Borden, Robert Sides, and Norman Harrower, jr., Wallace McDonald replaced Minot in 1948. v 5 .

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U15 aria! airfare BY CHARLES R. CHERINGTON Associate Professor of Government llwhat has been laclcing has been genuine intellectual creativeness, inquiry and discovery into the true nature ol man and his institutionsf' The past twenty years have presented a challenge of unparalleled magnitude to the Social Sciences at Harvard. The Class of 1946 is an excellent position to witness and as- sess the failure to meet that challenge. Such failure is of course primarily attributable to the faculty scholars laboring in the vineyard at Cambridge. Secondarily some blame IT1L1St be borne by administrative officers such as Mr. Conant and Mr. Buck. And, to some extent at least, the members of the Class of 1946 are indirectly responsible for the general failure to meet great opportunities. First let us examine the nature and extent of the failure, second, analyze some of its more obvious causes. Carl . Friedrich, wartime head ofHarvard's Militar Government Y School, is a distin fuished olitical theorist. He has been one in P of General Lucius Clay's key advisers on postwar German problems during the last two years. It is a arent that the most ressinr roblems con- P 5 fronting society during the first half of the twentieth century are those of human organization. Man's mastery over his h sical environment has made tremendous strides, the re- P Y sources and energy at his disposal being almost incredible. Furthermore, his progress along these lines shows little sign of slackening. On every front fin the physical theatre of operationsj the armies of the mid-twentieth century appear to be advancing. It is all so very exciting and encouraging. Yet even to the most casual observer such progress must seem not only inadequate but also perhaps imminently dangerous. For as the develo ment of one infernal machine succeeds 7 Onetime Austrian Minister of Finance, joseph Schumpeter is an expert on socialism and the business cycle. His 'l71eai-ry oflirozmwic Derftflopmwzl is now available in six languages. 1 . A-:min--v'vwpvq1-n f gf 'wi 23.3 Ni H l -Km . 4 ' l 4 Ai All E':i:g'f:1gm.x, 3 A ,. . A ,-0-'-'v- W, w.,..-f--T.-N M-- im M . ' iiztiiliz l i .. . A .K-apragx A .51 4 4 ? Q. i 5 rf 4 Wt.. ng V :emwfv 4 'S fi ii I J. it V ki. .rot , 4 .554 y' '., fail .u ' . :Nz 41. ng W- , I , , ri . ' s. -. 'I-'li lif- .-.wp ft:-gm. uid, T L. ln' zllw X ,f'q E?:.Q' Ai . 5 . ,ff .3 kg I. 'Ql f ', rdhgg 1 M, -'hi 1 gi W iw 'ln ' - 1-Q 7 V Qf'1X A . L - -. . .ta .... X