Haverford College - Record Yearbook (Haverford, PA)

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What do you mean you took the bus? , guest conductor Diamant questions Bachrach down at the Haverford station. POLITICAL SCIENCE For the past four years the PoHtical Science de- partment has carried on its own program of aid to the raihoads. Reaching the conclusion that the solu- tion lay in more passengers, they have acted ac- cording. At the end of the academic year 1957-58, the department selected two volunteers to use the trains: Andy Scott to go to Washington to help that line, and Steve Mueller to ride the rods to Cornell. This meant more passengers not only for the outward bound specials but also for the in- coming freights to the Haverford depot. Rogow and Freund pulled in as replacements to maintain rail- road quantity as well as quality. At the end of the year, the problem still wasn ' t solved. The pump-priming was continued after its eminently successful beginning. Rogow took an express for California and, to follow suit, Milton Sacks bought a round-trip ticket from Brandeis to Haverford. Nevertheless, the plight of the roads still seemed desperate after 1959-60. The support to the Bran- deis line did not seem enough so the Head Engi- neer himself, Railroad Red Somers, volunteered to take a leave of absence and to make several trips to Washington during the year. In a last minute change in the time table, Gerry Freund was placed aboard the late train to New York to further the recovery. At last the railroads seemed to be holding their own, so one-way tickets were purchased by Messers. Glickman and Diamant. The commuter lines have not been forgotten. Janosick did his best in 1959-60 and his ground work was furthered by Mishkin and Gilbert. Thus the department reverted to the quantity as well as quality principle employed earlier. Glickman and Diamant turned their full attention to teaching political science. Diamant hesitated about changing the pattern of the classes. But, utilizing the tech- niques learned at the LIni ersity of Florida, he gave brilliant lectures to seminar classes. Glickman wan- dered from class to class, keeping close to the as- signed reading in each subject, branching out to give learned talks on Africa to various groups out- side of the College. Members of the department stand poised and ready should the railroads need help once more. It is still uncertain whether the current recovery will be permanent and until the department can be sure, they teach with suitcases packed. Page 28

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C ' onstaiitly at play dicament. cuit analysis : Dr. Sclove pretends ni)t to n itice Dr. Wood ' s pre- PHYSICS Despite dire warnings. Dr. Aaron Lemonick, chairman-on-sabbatical of the Physics department, did not remo e to the California Institute of Tech- nology that spirit of somber, rational inquiry which is such an essential part of the mental make-up of all those students serious and sturdy enough to ac- cept the challenge of this department. The spirit remains, for here with us is somber, rational Dr. Fay Ajzenberg-Selove, better known to students as Fay, who has bravely borne the responsibility of taming and focusing the eager, impetuous minds entrusted to her care as acting chairman. In addi- tion, she has indoctrinated students with the Cal- vinistic dogmas of mechanics and the higher my- steries of modern physics, a subject, it is said, which has surpassed Zen Buddhism in campus popularity. (Dr. Selove is supposed to have abolished a com- mittee once). These two somber, rational types have been considered by the more psychologically astute of us as, respectively, the Father Image and the Mother Image of the department. The third somber, rational member of the department is Thomas Alonzo Bcnham, whose pedagogic duties include introducing students to the terrible beauty of Maxwell ' s equations and wave guides and making them aware of the high drama which is constantly at play in circuit analysis. His secular duties include tracking an immense number of satellites and com- manding Science For The Blind, an organization whose tendrils extend into every section of the country and into every sector of the economy. Also, he spends much time inveighing against the rolls of red tape which the College administration piles in front of him. Dr. Thomas A. Wood and Dr. Walter Selo e of Pcnn and Samuel M. V. Tatnall of Chestnut Mill (all three are somber and rational) are ha ing fun with the students in the courses which Dt. Lemonick used to ignite (teach). The amazing Dr. Louis C. Green, who has the Astron- omv department all to himself, seems to be spend ing most of his time explaining his research to earnest members of the Haverford community, but he also finds the time needed to teach courses on everything and to command a multi-lingual crew, second in number only to Mr. Benham ' s, which relentlesslv probes into the divine nature of the Schrodingcr equation. There is reportedly an As- tronomv major this year. Page 27

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With two minutes leFt: the whole problem of infantile sexuality . PSYCHOLOGY In its struggle for growth and good teachers, the Psychology department has managed in the past few years to lose an average of one good man a year. It tries to obtain faculty members who have not yet a name in the field, and yet are excellent teachers; this year it succeeded on both counts. But just when we figured we had something good, we found that the two newest additions are leaving: we hate to see them go. It seems that if vou tell Howard Rankin that psychology is not a science, he becomes rather defensive. His reaction, as we have classified it, seems to be rather conventional among psychologists. He prefers not to be labeled as a proponent of one or another particular brand of psychology; our own psychological acuity, however, has made it fairly clear to us that his private in- clinations are in the direction of the Skinnerian theories. In early March, he was shocked to discover that there was wood under all the papers on his desk. David Rosenhan, whose work has been pri- marily oriented toward personality and social psy- chology, is fine at disco ering answers, but even better at digging up new questions. He has that wonderful knack of making all his students believe that ;!. ; experiments were their own original ideas; and he has more unconscious tricks with a cigarette than Edward R. Murrovv. Douglas Heath never managed to be completely in absentia this year, but if you asked him, I ' m sure he ' d swear he tried his best. He ' ll probably remain the Id of the depart- ment for a very long time, at least until he fin- ishes his first book. At the end of a class hours, when picking up their notebooks, students may hear him say: Gee, only two minute left, gentle- men . . . tsk, tsk . . . only two minutes to cover the whole problem of infantile sexuality. But as the new men come and go so quickly, the words of the science grow unceasingly and, as we pass by Sharpless, we can hear the practitioners of the new magic creating spells with their terminology: . . . a scheme which would present a taxonomic dicho- tomization which would allow for unilinear com- parisons. In this fashion, so to speak, we could hope to distinguish the relevant variables which deter- mine the functional specificities of social move- ments. It would be an implicit attempt to answer the various hylozoic theories which tend to denv that social categories can be regarded as separable or not . . . Page 29