Haverford College - Record Yearbook (Haverford, PA)

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DEUTSCH Staunch, scholarly Harry Pfund, a Haverford- Har ' ard combination, supervised only two majors but many students involved in the phantasmagoric offerings. Himself a Goethian figure, influenced by the Stiinti and Draiio enthusiasm, in speech and thought to the classical rules of Iphigenie, he also has a yearning for the Roniantik. Die alte Gesch- ichte continually threatens his lyrical and ursprung- liche Overbrook endeavors and his awe-inspiring knowledge makes him as much a legendary figure as MacCaffrey in another field. His protege, John Gary, searches for Penedelian heights in die hlaiie Blimie and his Fontanian spe- ciality finds but antithetical conflict with the nat- uralists and realists of the nineteenth century. The idiomatic expression of 24, however, gives way often amidst the Korffian analysis to anglicisms, only to return belatedly under a Wiesian re-evaluation. Joachim Maass penetrates modern literature past the Peeperkorns, Aschenbachs and Tonios to the depths of Gabriclle, a figure which, like his an- alyses, he eminently controls. Faustian director Rudolph and Dictmar Haack ser ' e in Mercedian spirit and good-naturedness die Kiridern, while viewing aesthetics in Lenz and Crane. Die deutsche Professoren; Always pro-Pfund. Anx Amies! Humanize the Heathen . LA FRANCAIS This year the gymnasium has become the center not only of the corps athletique, but also of the guardians and cultivators of la teste plustost bien faicte que bien pleine. Here Marcel Gut- wirth, foremost exponent of The Place of the Humanities in a Liberal Arts Gollege, ' can keep his zealous eye on undergraduate activities in the heart of the campus, while he ponders how to humanize the heathen. Bradford Gook, who from Founders can com- municate over the heads of the students far below, loves, in the time left between the numerous papers, innumerable exams, and frequent pop quiz- zes, to fly off in discussions contrasting eternal attitudes in French th ought. He also hates long, invoh ' ed sentences in student compositions. Jacques Maries is never to be seen near his li- brary office, but can be spied in his daring Dau- phine on secret missions, from which he reappears only to terrify his pupils. Gallic inscrutability is his trademark and weapon. Page 22

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HISTORY . . . midccntuiy witnessed the culmination of a trend of modern liistorical eonscioiisness and scholarship which had originated during the En- lightenment. Its long path of de ' elopment, not al- ways smooth and harmonious, had been illuminated by such illustrious names as Gibbon, Carlyle, and Tre elyan, Ranke, I legel, and Burckhardt, Beard, Morison and Commager. It had seen such di ' erse achievements as the definitixc Cambridge volumes on ancient, medie ' al, and modern history, the cyclic determinism of Spengler, and the founding of the American Historical Association. Yet throughout, the all too-human tendency to trv to fit historv into established patterns — the o ' cr-emphasis on man ' s rational faculties, the idea of progress — had pre ' ented historians from recording the past wie es eigentlich gewesen ist. Reputed newspapers and periodicals of the early 1960 ' s have established Ha ' erford College as the center of the then current historiographical attainments, unsuccessfully rixallcd by such lesser lights as Har ard and Yale. Contemporary his- torians, among them Arnold ' Toynbee and Alan Bullock, pilgrimaged to Haverford to rejuvenate and reinvigorate their historical sensibilities at this fount of knowledge. Not only were thev attracted b - the e, tensi ' c Ouakcriana collection of the li- brary, but, more importantly, also bv those resi- dent scholars whose historical principles and con- ceptions dominated, shaped and determined the character of Western thought — Thomas Drake, Wallace MacCaffrey, and John Spielman. Professor Drake, conscientious and dedicated, usually found in his sumptuous offices in the Treasure Rtxim, carefully instructed his followers in the open highways and little known by-ways of American history. His keen bibliographical interest, his class anecdotes, and his deep concern for Friend history made him well-known over campus. Second- semester, 1961, he made a field trip to peruse the impact of the Inner Light on the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean, being ably replaced by Pro- fessor Russell F. Weigley from nearby Drexel. Professor MacCaffrey, noted for his discoveries of the foibles and whims of the medieval English urbanities, dazzled his classes with his intimate knowledge and sparking presentation of life in the Dark Ages and shocked them with his paper grades. His students in 11-12 marvelled at his his- torical interpretations while his majors revered him as a god. Expressing sincere interest in the individ- ual undergraduate and the ideals of the College and demanding high standards and tough-mindedness. Professor MacCaffrey injected a spirit of life and immediacy into ' the study of the past. The newest department member, John Spiel- man, contributed a firm background in Austrian intellectual history to his teaching of modern Euro- pean history. Alternating between the French Rev- olution and German history, he shared his historical enthusiasm with seminar students, provided expert guidance and encouragement, and elicited scholarly interest from his students, often in spite of them- selves. Resident scholars , Drake, MacCaffrey, and Spielman determine the character of Western thought for another week of lectures. A.

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EL ESPANOL ADVERTISEMENT (published annually): Special! X ain this year! (We ' re still trying!) Major in Spanish and see how you too can have your Spanish soul carefully moulded by small classes with one small man. Let the influential Haverford dean try to get you in at exclusive Spanish House where no one enters unless he can say Manolo me mando. Just think! Anyone who can write Major: Spanish after his name is entitled to a carefree, cheap year of romance (languages) in that center of thriving dictatorship, Madrid. You too can spend e.xciting holidavs in damp cathedrals and poorlv lit museums, drinking in whatever aspects of the at- mosphere which ha en ' t been bought by other Americans. With a background of five year-courses at the LIni ersity of Madrid and perhaps an enlightening summer at that international language spa, Middle- burv, ( Manolo me mando ), you will be readv to formulate your own ideas about the interpreta- tions of Manuel J. Asensio on ' las maravillas del arte y de la litcratura espanola of various special periods. SEE vour local agent, Senor Asensio, for further details! HURRY! Local agent Asensio: One small man. ' with impassioned eagerness RUSSIAN With the Soviet emphasis on the productive capacity of women, it is fitting that the distaff side should hold sway in the Russian department. Till this year, Frances DeGraaf, on loan from Bryn Mawr, has constituted a one-woman department. Although she demands a great deal from her stu- dents in the elementary course, her easy-going manner and sense of humor, so unexpected from a product of Ha erford ' s sister college, make even the first-vear homework less than painful. This year, Ruth Pearce has joined her in teaching at Ha erford. With energy and enthusiasm she re- quires le mot juste in all translations, and with impassioned eagerness she exhorts her beleaguered students to spend each idle moment exploring the fascinating world of Russian grammar. Her inter- pretations of Khruschev ' s folksy cliches and Ler- montov ' s vivid descriptions are spiced with tales of the Russian people gathered first-hand on her fam- ous trip to Moscow. Their combined Four-year plans have resulted in a quadrupled enrollment at Haverford. Page 23