Haverford College - Record Yearbook (Haverford, PA)

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Haverford ' s Engineers caught on a busman ' s holiday in the cab of the Twentieth Centurv Limited. ENGINEERING Clayton W. Holmes, pictured here with other members of the Engineering department in front of the original Mcnlo Park switchboard, is a man of many talents and experiences. Contemptuous of sluggish minds in eight o ' clock classes, slide-rule mismanipulations, and lost decimal points, he is a stern taskmaster who is possibly the only Haver- ford professor never to have granted an extension — . . . you knew it was due today, why didn ' t you start on it last week? Behind this exterior, however, lies a heart of pump bronze, which is at least the same color as gold. The extensive effort required of his students and his searching examinations turn out graduates who appreciate exactitude and who know the value of being right the first time. His students are pre- pared for industry or graduate school, and are us- uallv well received bv both. Mr. Holmes runs the wood-working course, laxishing the same consummate skill on those stu- dents that he does on his majors. Among his relaxations are traveling, (from which he has an excellent collection of color slides), and summering at his New England farm. At his farm he finds peace away from the college commotion and there he spends his time solving all the prob- lems in a new thermodynamics text and counting the trucks full of Bunker C running up the road to a nearby generating station. Like a well-known steam turbine. Mr. Holmes never stops. Mr. Holmes will be glad to direct interested stu- dents to the proper books for discussing the unique properties and characteristics of Bunker C as applied to gcnerating-station operation. Page 19

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From recession to fruition : The funniest thing happened to Ho Hunter on the wav to Vladivostok. ECONOMICS From the clouded (cigarette smoke) summit of Mt. Whitall, the gods oF the renovated Eco- nomics department have guided their underlings through the analyses of What, How, and For Whom. This year, the task of developing the stu- dent cycle from recession to fruition was led with- out the thundering policies of Zeus Teaf, who shifted his demands to alumni campaign-contribu- tors. In assuming the duties of acting chairman, Ho Hunter, ' 43; I. Succeeded in leading the department A. To new worries about comps. II. Broke his own speed record A. For the twentieth successive year B. In climbing the Whitall stairs. III. Enlivened his Soviet System course A. With marginal contortions. If will was missing, the department neverthe- less gained new inspiration with the return of Phil Bell from the University of California and with the addition of Gene Smolensky from the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania. Phil, also known as The Crusher, became famous on the campus due to his crusades for babies and IBM ' s. He will be most remembered by Economics 81 veterans for his hover- ing guidance at Provident Mutal, the surprise final, and his casual manner in bumming cigarettes from us. Pipe smoking Gene added to the color of the department as any student in his Introductory, Monev and Banking, or Labor courses will attest. Sample: So thus the MC curve intersects the AC curve at the price line, right? (pause) Wrong!! (class shifts uneasily in chairs). A cred- it to the department lies in the challenging prob- lems which still plague its students: has Bell ever done less than 48 hours work in a day? ... is Smolensky really so excited about Economics that he can never sit down during a class? . . . does Hunter ever fail to answer a question without quoting a dozen references? Research on all of these problems continues. Page 18

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The Wastelanders gird their htcr,ir loins against in Wonderland. ENGLISH One of the things an EngHsh major must learn before graduating is that William Wordsworth wrote most of his poetry after the death of William Shakespeare. He must also acquaint himself with the fact that James Joyce, because of very exasper- ating circumstances, was placed in a position in which he was unable to exert a strong influence on Sir Edmund Spenser. Other relevant informa- tion the English major would have to absorb would be: the century in which most scholars and experts ha ' e placed the French Revolution of 1789; and some of the general differences which critics ha ' e noted between the sonnet and the epic. The Haxerford English major is, vou see, a creature of a ' ery rare breed. One of the chief duties of the English teacher at the College is to assist in the preservation of that breed. All teachers ha ' e been carefully warned bv Dr. Ralph Sargent that one of the most harmful things thcv can do to a crcati ' e imagination is to burden and stifle it with a heap of dates and facts. The liberal spirit of the College, promoting as it does indi idual ex- Wordsworth, wildeyed students and Alice pression and group discussion of original ideas, is a sharp deterrent to any teaching methods depend- ing solelv upon the direct communication of infor- mation from learned scholar to unwashed student. Dr. Sargent, one of the most wholly pleasant and sympathetic teachers on the campus, has brought together a crew of teachers all of whom have developed elaborate methods of dealing with the precious minds that waft through the College. Dr. Sargent himself was last seen agreeing with a wild-eyed student that: Yes, there vnoht he something to your theory that Hamlet. Ibsen ' s greatest play, is a xeiled treatise on the subject of lesbianism. Members of Sargent ' s crew this year include Alfred Satterthwaite, who believes that a com- pletely equanimous approach to literature can re- solve everything into statements such as Life is really quite gay, you know ; Jay Cellens, who was last seen proving to a freshman that Tennessee Williams is a greater playwright than Aeschylus; James Harper, who wants to replace the freshmen ' s Man ' s Fate with Alice iii Wonderland; f omer Goldberg, who used more chalk and broke more furniture than anv other teacher this vcar; and Guv Da ' cnport, who both teaches and studies eccentric poets. Page 20