Harvard University - Red Book Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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l Erwin Panofsky of the Institute for Advanced Study held the Charles Eliot Norton Professorship of Poetry last year. Yearly appointments to this famous Chair are made at infrequent intervals. fact that their very existence and nature are clues to essential ways of thought and life. If the arts are merely decorations for living, or idle diversions, they need little study, if they are only tools for the psychologist, economist, or historian, they are useful but only as imperfect instruments. Only when they are seen as in their own right fundamental elements in the Order of human life, expressions of basic modes of thought, and the ultimate communication of essential experience and faith, do they appear in their true colors, and only in that light does their study produce the values we need. To quote once more the writer of Harvard Today in the 1943 Album, the fight of students of the humanities will not end even when peace has been restored . In the war years their weapons were guns, tomorrow, as educated men, their weapons will JAMES WARE FREDERIC L, WELLS Assn:-inte l,I'UfL'HHlYI' of Chinese Asaislxuili lliwfi-ssui' of Psyi-lmlngy elsif ' JOSHUA WHATMOUGH lk . N , , , DONALD CARY WILLIAMS roll-ssnr of cf1lllIDlLl'3lflYl' Pllilnlngy 11,-,,ft.gs,,r,,f philnsnlyhv HARRY A. WOLFSON GEORGE KINGSLEY ZIPF N:i!h:m Litliuu-r l'rofa-ssur of Lluiwl-,lily 1,4-4-g,,m.r lluhrow lilfil'l'lliilll't' :mud Pliilnsnplly ' be their ideas. It is now tomorrow. The battle has not ended with the promise of peace. Ideas are still weapons, and it is still the opportunity and the obligation of the teacher and student of the humanities, in college or out of it, to fight with them for the salvation ofa gravely threatened world. Arthur Darby Nock, an encyclopedia of early Christian and Hebrew lore, is noted for his sharp wit, cane, and swinging stride.

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5-I 15111 :nailing A e It , - .4 . . vw-M l . I .v i 1:4 . H '5 ' N - .1 ' Y yi' -1 'v ' U I I, 1 . 'Q . 4 HAT we seek is that which Samuel Eliot Morison aptly described as an illogical cominglingn in which rich menls sons and poor, serious scholars and frivolous wasters, saints and sinners, puritans and papists, jews and Gentiles, will meet in her Houses, her Yard, and her athletic fields, rubbing off each other's angularities, and learning from friendly con- tact what cannot be learned from books. Pro1z0.rt Paul H. Buck