Princeton University - Bric A Brac Yearbook (Princeton, NJ)

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, j -. j t- ii -ri,„ m „n THIRD ROW mvth ;imbel Reeve, Gilson. Smith, Wilson, Loomis, TOP ROW: Cone. Fenninger, Parke, Fletcher, Cleveland, Gordon u kellev . Thomson. TH1RMK FR T ' R0W: Gray . French , Cook. Mc.Millen. Parreno, B |,, ck ECON Rl « Norris, Templeman, Augustine. Tarns. Furbec k . Burcftanan j ones . Kussen. Phi Beta Kappa FACULTY OFFICERS r i ■■ r- President Dean Christian Gauss . . President Professor Robert Scoon . . . ■ ice ™ J Professor W. J. Oates Cretan EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE R. G. Albion H. H. Hudson A. G. Shenstone MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE , , 1 1 ii i S. E. Howard H. H. Hudson MEMBERS 1938 ELECTED 1937 AND 1938 D. C. Augustine R. W. Gimbel Dunsran McNichol fpV n S L Block R- T. Goodsell J- F. Mead J- E. Russell r r r- A K 1 Mendeloff I- W. Smith H. P. Brokaw D. L. Gordon A. 1- Menaeiort J t r n u i n T Graham B. H. Milner R. H. Smith, Jr. T. G. Buchanan,, r. U. i . vjranam . r u c rV , , o n i 1 I R Grav T. H. Norris C. H. Smyth 1. H. Cleveland L.. «■• - . D B Cook C. C. Irvine H. A. A. Panofskv C R. Stevens f Dr I N F lones W. K. H. Panofsky A.J.Stokely 1. P. Corcoran, Jr. N.r-.jones i t-. r T G Kellev 1- H. Parke P- Tams L. D. Fennineer J u. N.eue j . „ „ . B , H F Klie I.W.Patterson E. B. Templeman A. G. Fletcher, Jr. H. F. klie J Thompson Theodore French G. M. Lehr O. i . Plumb J r „ . t ■ l F F Rppvc lr r V hltlock, 1U A. P. Furbeck P. A. Loomis, Jr. K ri. Keeve, jr. T.q. Gilson T. R.McMillen C. C. Reid E. J. Wilson, Jr. MEMBERS 1939, ELECTED 1938 E.T.Ccne R.R.Holt O. H Reeder W P Davison G. M. Hornblower G. F. Shaskan, Jr. Landis Gores A M. Lyon G. S. Warren, Jr. 228

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Honorary Degrees, 1938 MASTER OF FINE ARTS RICHARD TOWNLEY HAINES HALSEY, of the Class of 1886; while leading an active life on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange he found recreation as a student and collector of early American silver and furniture, becoming a recognized authority on Americana; organizer of the American Wing of the Metropoli- tan Museum-a visual interpretation of home life in this country from early colonial times; an enthusiastic humanist and critic of all forms of early American art, he has awakened the American people to appreciative consciousness of the achievements of their ancestors in architecture, interior decoration, and other forms of early American culture. DOCTOR OF SCIENCE CHARLES JAMES HATFIELD, a graduate of Princeton of the great Class of 1888 and of the Medical School of the University of Pennsylvania; for many years executive director of the Henry Phipps Institute for the Study, Prevention and Cure of Tubercu- losis, the pioneer institution in this country devoted to this cause; for over twenty-five years a leading figure in the National Tubercu- losis Association, recently awarded the Trudeau Medal for his meritorious contributions to the prevention and treatment of this disease. A life-long fighter against the destruction that wasteth at noon-day ' he sees on every hand signs of victory in warfare for the preservation of mankind. CLINTON JOSEPH DAVISSON, member of the technical staff of the Bell Telephone Laboratories and of the National Academy of Sciences; a Doctor of Philosophy of Princeton. His investiga- tions on the diffraction of electrons by crystals, executed concur- rently with, but independently of, the rise of wave mechanics, gave the first direct proof of the undulatory properties of matter; for this remarkable and brilliant achievement he was awarded successively the Comstock Prize of the National Academy of Sciences, The Cresson Medal of the Franklin Institute, the Hughes Medal of the Royal Society of London, and in 1937 the Nobel Prize. A modest and resourceful designer of experimental attack, he began, as a Fellow in our own Palmer Laboratory under the in- spiration of another Nobel Laureate, Owen Richardson, his re- searches on thermionics, which have made him a leader in this field, so fundamental for modern experimental science, and the recipient of the highest award for scientific discovery. DOCTOR OF LETTERS ALLEN VANDERHOEF HEELY, Headmaster of the Lawrence- ville School; a graduate of Yale; after five years spent in business pursuits he returned to Andover as teacher of English and Assistant Dean, there to give play to his deep interest in youth and to garner the experience which has qualified him for his present post, where he has introduced the conference method of study and worked with his associates toward a greater Lawrenceville. CLAUDE MOORE FUESS, Headmaster of Phillips Andover Academy since 1933; a graduate of Amherst and a Doctor of Philos- ophy of Columbia; a teacher of English at Andover for a quarter of a century, during which time, with literary skill and scholarly accuracy, he has drawn strikingly faithful and sympathetic pic- tures of the personalities of three great Americans— Rufus Choate, Daniel Webster and Carl Schurz; schooled in the old tradition and fully aware of present-day experiments in education, he is increas- ing the distinction of the old Academy. SIR HERBERT JOHN CLIFFORD GRIERSON, Lord Rector of the University of Edinburgh; a student at Aberdeen and at Oxford ; for more than twenty years Professor of English Literature at Aberdeen, and then for a like period at Edinburgh; throughout his life a reader of the great literatures of the world, in many tongues and in many periods; in Bacon ' s words he has read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted— but to weigh and consider ; the breadth and depth of his knowl- edge, the acuteness and fairness of his judgments are revealed in many publications on the great writers of the seventeenth century, chief among which is his monumental and definitive edition of the poems of John Donne; as Izaak Walton said of Dr. Donne, he has been earnest and unwearied in the search of knowledge ; chosen to be Lord Rector of his University, an honor cherished years ago by his fellow Scotsman, Thomas Carlvle, a glorious tribute to the scholar and to the man. DOCTOR OF DIVINITY THE MOST REVERENT HENRY ST. GEORGE TUCKER, Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church; a son of the ' University of Virginia, a graduate of and one-time Professor in the Virginia Theological Seminary; serving in Japan for twenty-five years as missionary, college president and bishop, where he was widely known as the missionary statesman of the East, a tribute to his sympathetic understanding of those peoples; a man of spiritual insight and power, a liberal in all that touches human need and human aspirations; in mind, heart and experience highly qualified to be Primate of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America. DOCTOR OF LAWS LEWIS WILLIAM DOUGLAS, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of McGill University; a native of Arizona, a graduate of Amherst, and for a brief time a teacher of history at Amherst; as representative of his native state in Congress for a decade he attracted attention and respect by his vigorous and courageous insistence upon appro- priate economies in governmental expenditure, often in the face of powerful pressure groups, thus preparing him for his effective service as Director of the Budget, finding satisfaction and reward in a job well done. Our distinguished sister university across the border will prosper in his hands. ARTHUR HARRY MOORE, Governor of New Jersey, Princeton University, mindful of the part which it has been her privilege to play in the life of the State for nearly two centuries, today affirms her allegiance to the State of New Jersey in conferring this degree upon a son of New Jersey three times chosen Governor of the State, a trust and honor never before conferred by the electorate on any citizen. CORDELL HULL, Secretary of State of the United States; after serving his own State of Tennessee as a member of her legislature and of her judiciary, he was for nearly twenty-five years her repre- sentative in the Congress of the United States, first in the House and later in the Senate; a profound student of the principles of taxation and of tariffs, he was, during the administration of Presi- dent Wilson, author of the federal income and inheritance tax laws; as Secretary of State he has formulated, and with singular skill and success has made effective, a policy of reciprocal trade between our nation and others, basing his action upon the belief that the economic welfare of all nations is the only sure foundation for the lasting welfare of our own. Quiet, unselfish, and determined, he is breaking down the economic barriers between nations, and by thus lessening international rivalry and suspicion he is establish- ing a powerful safeguard of peace. 227

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Princeton Chapter Sigma XI OFFICERS Dean L. P. Eisenhart Professor G. E. Beggs Professor C. W. Bray Professor H. N. Alyea. . Dr. Carl Ten Broeck Dr. F. O. Holmes Professor E. G. Butler Professor A. F. Buddington President . Vice-President . . .Secretary Treasurer Members of Executive Committee ASTRONOMY H. A. A. Panofskv BIOLOGY A. F. Hopper, Jr. W. G. Marr R. E. Mason H. B. Nealjr. E. S. Olsan ASSOCIATE MEMBERS, 1938 CHEMISTRY A. G. Fletcher, Jr. J. F. Mead C. C. Reid C. R. Stevens E.J. Wilson, Jr. GEOLOGY VV. McC. Hardy C. H. Toll MATHEMATICS N. F. Jones PHYSICS D. B. Cook F. D. Creamer PSYCHOLOGY D. T. Graham GEOLOGY B. F. Howell, Jr. ASSOCIATE MEMBERS, 1939 PHYSICS R. H. Dicke 229