Harvard University - Red Book Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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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

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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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another, as our horizons widen and distances shrink, as our theoretical life expectancies increase, it becomes apparent that something is amiss. It was not an accident that the discovery of atomic energy was followed by its use in twin sperms of indescribable destructiveness over thejapanese islands, it was instead both a symptom and a portent. And it is an ironic commentary on the destiny of modern man that the justifica- tion for this exhibition Qand I think it was a good justification, was that to spare Hiroshima and Nagasaki would have necessi- tated the armies of the United States fighting their way ashore at an infinitely higher cost in terms of lives, suffering, and money, both to ourselves and to our then enemies. The Shortcomings of the Social Scientists The failure of men to manage their own affairs for even to have them managed for themj would seem to account for two great world wars and now presents us with the imminent and probably inevitable prospect ofa third. This failure arises out of the breakdown of human institutions and relations which are the province of the social scientists. Of course, this does not mean that he must bear the full guilt for society's disorganization, any more than Dean Sperry should be held accountable for the decline in attendance at protestant Sunday services. But some embarrassing questions are raised. What have the social scientists been doing? What constructive contributions have they made toward understanding and solv- ing our present difhculties? 11 X A JOHN G. BEEBE-CEN TER SIDNEY S. ALEXANDER In-ctviirvr on l'syc-linlogy Asst. Profvssur of Hl'0ll0llll1'H , Historian Crane Brinton is an authority on the Frey-,gh Revolu. tion. His latest book, From llflmzy Ona, argues we are not yet ready for world government. 5 FZ l g x I SAIYIUEL H. BEER I Nmlllnlfi I r f SH r li c'0W'n'UN'Yll lil'llI'y l.4'i' Prof. uf l'h'nlmll1ii's l'l'nfvssiul' ul llistnry JOHN DONALD BLACK ROBERT BLAKE in . HEINRICH BRUENING HAROLD BURBANK EDWARD CHAMBERLIN Iiititiumr Profirssur of Cove-rnnu-nt Wells Prof. uf l'olil.ii-nl IC:-uiiomy l'i'uft-ssor of I-If-oiminir-s lilgisgfxpglgggylmm' H I STERLING DOW lhisignml Junta HHS . ui son mfr-asm irf.Xl'1'lli'nliig5 11171