Haverford College - Record Yearbook (Haverford, PA)

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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

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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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Don ' t worry about it. If you don ' t see it now, take it home and think about it. ' MATHEMATICS In the absence of Cletus Oakley, who is away on a year ' s Sabbatical, Louis Solomon has ably headed the Mathematics department and has been a moving force in the new setup of the depart- ment. The new setup, not to be confused with the math secretary, will greatly accelerate- the math- ematical education of the Haverford student. Even though he has been here only two years, Uncle Louie has quickly made a reputation for himself through his challenging tests — tests followed by a generous scaling, his constant use of the word trivial in all of his proofs, his subtle and clever way of transforming theorems into facts, his way of calling any problem which a student can do garbage, his lack of preparation for project courses, his colds, and his favorite expression : Don ' t worry about it. If you don ' t see it now, take it home and think about it. Backing up the trinity of Oakley, Solomon, and Bob Wisner (alias Robert J. Dropper of the Academic Standing Committee) are Jim Brooks and Leonard Bidwell. Mr. Brooks is a lover of the philosophy and history of mathematics and he appreciates its real beautv, as can be seen by his facial expressions when he finally solves a problem. L O. B. is known to spend a whole period on a student ' s question and to end the class period by saying: I ' m . . . I ' m terribly sorry ... I promise to look into this for the next meeting. One can be sure that he will have the solution by the next class. Mr. Bidwell comes to Haverford from Drexel Institute of Technology. He fills the gap created by Mr. Oakley ' s absence. A very friendly and easy- going man, he has aided in the program of dis- couraging many underclassmen from becoming math majors.