Haverford College - Record Yearbook (Haverford, PA)

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HISTORY OF ART On a campus dedicated to the inner light, one man remains in the dark and prefers it so. Whene er he appears in a classroom, bearing brief- cases and exotic wooden containers, shades are drawn and lights immediately extinguished: It ' s time, friends, for another illustrated lecture by Dr. James Fowle and his trusty slide machine. The topic for exposition, on or off the subject of cur- rent consideration, may include a look at the art of any time, any place from Cano ' a to cartoons, pylons to Picasso. For Mr. Fowle, things seen are things to be explored. His range of interest is as wide as his field of ision. A modernist by in- clination, he collects colonial antiques, such as his own home. Steeped in the traditions of Euro- pean Art History, a carload of color slides from the Carnegie Foundation converted him to a study of American architecture and painting. Remaining objective in an aesthetic field in which subjectivism is an occupational disease, he has dc eloped a unique ocabulary which be- speaks, diplomatically, explication rather than judgment. When he does e ' aluate the image be- I rom Canova to cartoons, pylons to Picasso . fore you, Mr. Fowle reveals himself as something of a New Critic who judges not the artist ' s personality or his tradition but the individual ohjet d ' art itself as it works on the eye. His sympathetic and open, although disconnected, approach to the art world leads one not to a sense of continuous art history, but to the realization that art is where vou find it. The Biblical Literature department! Few stu- dents make the leap of faith into this depart- ment but those who do look to the authority of two professors: Mr. Flight, who reveals to the remnant his understanding of the prophets and apostles; and Mr. Horn, whose wisdom reveals the myriad problems of religion to pious students (which revelation causes them to squirm in their Mid shrieking drills, and sounds of Horn. BIBLICAL LITERATURE seats and to doubt, spout and bout.) Mr. Flight produces his wisdom from within the bounds of our campus; Mr. Horn weekly spans the infinite distance between New York and Haverford, brief- case bulging with metaphysical paradoxes, ac- coustical illusions, and absolute ideas. These are carefully laid out before his bright-eyed stu- dents to be resolved or accepted as such; seldom are they resolved and seldom are they accepted as such. Mr. Flight meets his students in a cata- comb deep in the heart of engineering territory; three times a week his ' oice can be heard above whining band-saws and shrieking drills. Mr. Horn meets his disciples in a library catacomb, where once weekly his doubting, spouting and bouting students (the only source of heat) can be heard. Occasionally one confident voice is heard. It is that of Mr. Florn calmly and clearly revealing to his bewildered students where they got lost in their own arguments. The knowledge gained bv a Biblical Literature major ? A knowledge of manv nrorilcms bk

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Personal interaction . . . recorded with electronic computation : Professor Hare tries to repair Ira Reid ' s TV set. ANTHROPOLOGY-SOCIOLOGY Despite the multiplicity of variegated socio- political complexes existent in the world today, the Sociology department was able to cast valuable insights into the resolution of societal difficulties and to provide a conceptual framework in which to envision life. The leader and master of abstracting generality from specifity and couching it in a proper per- spective was the sagacious and erudite Ira ,Reid. An advocate of informal seminar courses, Ira was well-known for his facility with sociological jrfgon and for his startling ability to recall seminal biblio- graphical material. Sociology majors will also re- member the repeated excursions with isiting experts to the Viking Inn and Ma erford Hotel. When the billowing clouds from Smitty ' s pipe cleared away, Haverford had gained a new sociolog- ist. A. Paul Hare, formerly of lesser known Har- vard, brought a rigid and well disciplined neo- positi istic approach and talent for neologisms as a ready source of t|uantitati e method and research design. With his arri al, Haverford attained leadership in yet another area, that of the one-vvav mirror. With the installation in Chase of the largest one-wav mirror in the nation. Dr. Hare created a social laboratory in which he could validate the old adage, seeing is believing. Per- sonal interaction could be scientifically recorded with electronic computation and programming and eventually could be analyzed for predictive and research purposes. Assisting the Haverfordian pedagogues were the scholars from Bryn Mawr. Ably led by Fred- erica de Laguna, their program featured anthrop- ological emphases on cultural development and germane patterns and processes. Among this group was Edward B. Harper, noted expert on preliterates and their religions, e olutionary processes and hu- man paleontology, and the peoples of India and the prevalent caste dynamics. The two anthropologists were joined by Eugene V. Schneider, who deftly revealed the basic sociological perspectives and attended to anv resultant or dysfunctional problems of our dynamic industrial complex. His classes were noteworthv in that they were marked by the aromatic scent of Old Briar, in which environmental conditions only truth could persist. With truth, so went sociology, ' ! Page 13

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Opening night at the scientific drama : Dr. Santer raises the curtain on Act I of the Citric Acid Cycle. BIOLOGY The biology laboratory is the main habitat of Professors Loewy, Santer, and Finger. Each thrives in his peculiar microbial world observing with gusto the antics of gamma-globulin, sulfur bacteria, and Paramecium, respectively. Between labs all ladle out courses to the student, who finds a unic|uc challenge with each man. Dr. Loewy is on Sabbatical this year in California. Rumor has it that he is being cast for the star role in the forthcoming mo ie thriller, I Made Goli i Bodiea For Fun mid Profit. Of all three men, he is most likely to combine philosophy and biology: in his evolution course he comments upon the relation- ship between a Padre and a lungfish as well as on the ethical implications consequent to the Big Bang. In very- dramatic fashion. Dr. Santer will ha e you on the edge of your seat as he describes vi idly a scientific drama in which penicillin is the pro- tagonist, foiling by its very presence the leftist organization of a cell wall in bacteria. A stockpile of information, he ' s probably the only man alive who can recite at any given moment the functitm of e ' eiy electron indigenous to the citric acid cvcle. Those who pass the required penmanship speed test may be enrolled in courses taught by the swift- ly-speaking Dr. Finger, of Class Night mention. Cenetically oriented, he pro ides a host of possi- ble explanations for red-headed students who are sons of blond parents. Believing strongly in that catchy adage, People in Science are Human , Dr. Finger drives a Triumph sports car and can be recognized anytime in a group by his English- cut tweed sportcoat. Replacing Dr. Lowey this year is Mrs. Santer who taught Biology 13. Mrs. Green has her own projects and comes in contact with students as an ever-present help for those in the formidible embryology course, a new device of natural selec- tion brought up from the Carnegie Institute by Drs. DeHaar and Ebert. Acting quartermaster and strongman in the biology department is smiling Ed Butler. And those two girls running around the labs, cooking hot dogs and coffee are Carol and Lida, lab assistants who provide pleasant conversation to all senior majors, a factor which makes biology at Haverford a most sought-after subject. Page 15