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

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Sfmmm mM Sc(.H n, C liLii7-inun Dept. of Philosophy THE ' asc held covered by the subject ot pbilosophy — ethics, art, religion, society and Its problems, science — enables the Philos- ophy Department to offer a variety of subjects of diversified interests to those interested in the study of thought. Every phase and period ot philosophical study is included in its list of courses. They are concerned with the history oi philosophy, the study of its minds, its periods, and its various other aspects. Courses in art and literature, social studies, and mathematics and natural sciences are sug- gested by the department as supplementary to the work of the major. The Junior depart- mental student has a choice of one of three main fields ot Philosophy : its history, the problem ot ethics, and logic and science. The Senior is allowed a freer choice, and even selection in other departments is at times permitted. Com- prehensive understanding is stressed as the fun- damental aim. Sea Smytli, Chairman Shenstone Robertson Cooke Departmental Faculty Members Roherc Scoon, Ph.D., L.H.D., Chairman, Stuart Projcssor of Philosophy; David Frederick Bowers, Ph.D., Assistant Projcssor; Theodore Meyer Greene. Ph.D., Professor; Norman Adrian Malcolm, Ph.D., Instructor; Walter Terence Stace, Litt.D., Stuart Pro- Jessor; Andrew Paul Ushenko, Ph.D., Assistant Pro- fessor; Ledger Wood, Ph.D., Associate Professor. Department of Physics NOT only a science of cyclotrons and spec- trographs. Physics is concerned with many ot the problems arising from the correlation of mathematics and natural science. Many of Dclsjsso and the Mass Cyclotron

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M.A., LL.D., Meredith Hoivland Pyne, Professor of French Literature; Maurice Edgar Coindrcau, Ag. dc rUniv., Associate Professor; William Julius Coolcv, Jr., B.S., Instructor; Alfred Fouler, Ph.D., Assistant Professor; Christian Gauss, A B , Litt.D., L.H.D., LL.D., Class of igoo Professor of Modern Languages, Dean of the College; Stephen Oilman, A.B., Instructor; Henry Alexander Grubhs, Ph.D., Assistant Professor; Walter Scott Hastings, Ph.D., Professor; Hans Jaeger, Dr. Phil., Assistant Professor; William Temple Ernest Kennett, A.M., Instructor; Sidney Lawrence Leven- good, Ph.D., Assistant Professor; Lawrence Francis Hawkins Lowe, Ph.D., Assistant Professor; Carlos Lynes, Jr., Ph.D., Instructor; Archibald Thomas Mac- AUister, Jr., Ph.D., Assistant Professor; Myron Alvin Peyton, A.M., Instructor; George Madison Priest, Ph.D., Professor; Donald Clive Stuart, Ph.D., Profes sor; Bernhard Ulmer, Ph.D., Instructor; Albert van Eerden, Ph.D., Assistant Professor; Ira Owen Wade, Ph.D., Professor; Jared E. Wenger, Ph.D., Instructor; Raymond Smith Willis, Jr., Ph.D., Assistant Profes- sor; Ralph Wood, Ph.D., Inst7-uctor. Visicing lecturer, 1940-1941. Dept. of Military Science THE Reserve Officers ' Training Corps of Princeton, a Field Artillery unit, has long been popular with undergraduates. The course offers men training in horsemanship, artillery fire, motor travel and mechanics, and the use of small fire arms. Additional training is provided the camp during the period following the Junior year. Because of the excellence of the mstruc- tors and general high calibre of the unit, the Princeton R. O. T. C. has become one of the country ' s best training schools for reserve offi- cers. With the general awakening of this country to the need tor national defense and the resulting demand tor trained officers in the Army, the position ot the Department of Military Science has become one of major importance today, and the course enrollment has swelled to capacity. The course is run according to physical stand- ards of the Army and is divided into two parts, the basic courses for Freshman and Sophomore years and the advanced Junior and Senior train- ing. The latter are chosen as elect ives by upperclassmen. The men finishing the four l-ON CLlrl; Gun Dril year course are commissioned as Second Lieu- tenants of Field Artillery in the Officers ' Re- serve Corps. Because of the current National Guard Bill, however, most of these men will see active service. Departmental Faculty Members Second Lieut. John Eraser Bliss, Jr., FA. Res., A.B., Assistant Projessor; Lieut. Col. Solomon Foote Clark, F.A., B.S., Professor; Maj. George Eddy Cook, F.A., Assistant Professor; Maj. Homer W. Kiefer, F.A,, B.S., Assistant Professor; Second Lieut. William Fran- cis Russell, F.A. Res., A.B., ,4ss!Sfaii£ Professor; First Lieut. Louis duRest van de Velde, F.A. Res., A.B., Assistant Professor. Department of Oriental Languages and Literatures COMPRISING a group of courses that may be chosen as electives by Juniors and Seniors and a few that may be taken by Sophomores, the Oriental Languages department is neverthe- less too small a field at Princeton to allow stu- dents to select it as a major department ot study. Those who elect its courses, however, are instructed in the elements of linguistic science as well as in Semitic culture, Sanskrit, Arabic, and Biblical Hebrew. Departmental Faculty Mcmhe :rs Harold Herman Bender, Ph D , Litt.D., Phil.L.D., M. Taylor Pyne Professor oj Indo-Qermanic Philos- o i n ' , Samuel DeCoster Atkins, Ph.D., Instructor; Nabih H. Faris, Ph.D., I ' iesearch Associate, Curator of Arabic and Islamic Manuscrilits; Henry Snyder Gehman, Ph.D., S.T.D., Lecturer; Philip Khu-i Hitti, Ph.D., Professor of Semitic Literature on the William and y nnie S. Pat- ton Pinindation; George Car- penter Miles, Ph.D., In- structor. Beniicr, Cli.unnun

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its courses arc taken by students of other depart- ments and Physics courses are part of the re- quired program for premedical students. Being to a great degree mathematical in apphcation, cooperation with the Department of Mathe- matics is an important part of the Physics De- partment ' s program. The subjects offered by the department, inckiding electricity, optics, photography, sound, heat, and mechanics, offer background for practical application in our mod- ern period ot mechanical and scientific achieve- ment. The need for trained men in this tech- nical age lends reason for the necessity and size of the Physics Department. A students ' shop is maintained, equipped with lathes, drills, milling machine, shaper and other equipment, and offers practical instruction in the use of these machines. In recognition ot two possible approaches to the study ol this subject, the experimental aspect on the one hand and the theoretical and mathematical aspect on the other, the require- ments of the department permit the majoring student, in accordance with his aptitude and in- terest, to concentrate on the study of either. In addition, the study of German and Chemistry are stressed as aids in the study of Physics. Departmental Faculty Members Henry De Wolf Smyth, Ph.D., Chairman, Professor; Edwin Plimpton Adams, Ph.D., D.Sc, Henry Profes- sor of Physics; Walker Bleakney, Ph.D., Associate Professor; William Fuller Brown, Jr., Ph.D., Assis- tant Professor; Herewald Lester Cooke , M.A., Pro- fessor; Edward Chester Creutz, Ph.D., Instructor; Lewis Alexander Delsasso, Ph.D., Instructor; Rudolph Walter Ladenburg, Dr. Phil., Brackett Professor of Physics; Howard Percy Robertson, Ph.D., Professor; Allen Goodrich Shenstone, Ph.D., Professor; Lincoln Gilmorc Smith, Ph.D., Instructor; Thoma Mees van ' t Hoff Snyder, Ph.D., Instructor; Louis Alexander Turner, Ph.D., Associate Professor; Cletus Clinton Van Voorhis, Ph.D., I esearch Associate; John Archi- bald Wheeler, Ph.D., Assistant Professor; Milton Grandison White, Ph.D., Assistay t Professor; Eugene Paul Wigner, Dr.Ing., Thomas D. Jones Professor of Mathematical Physics; Robert Rathbun Wilson, Ph D,. Instructor. Department of Politics THE Department ot Politics offers a pro- gram of studies designed to prepare stu- dents for public affairs and constructive citizen- ship. Since the time of Aristotle, political science has provided the deductive method whereby hypotheses are set up to be tested by application to public affairs. In the conduct of its instruction, the Department pro ' ides a variety of courses in government, public law, international relations, political theory and pub- lic opinion. The independent work includes not only training in the analysis and interpreta- tion of the literature of political science but also observation through supervised field studies of the functioning ot the governmental process. Departmental Faculty Members William Seal Carpenter, Ph.D., Chariman, Profes- sor; D. Sedgwick Bussey, B.A., Instructor; Harwood Lawrence Childs, Ph.D., Associate Projesosr; Edward Samuel Corwin, Ph.D., LL.D., Litt.D., McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence; Gisbert Henry Flanz, J.U.C., Dipl.Sc.Pol., Instructor; George Adams Gra- ham, Ph.D., Associate Professor; Alpheus Thomas Mason, Ph.D., Professor; William Starr Myersf, Ph.D., Professor; Gerhart Niemeyer, J.U.D., Assis- tant Pro essor; James Alfred Perkins, Ph.D., Assistant Projessor ;]o m Andrew Schroth, Jr., A.M., Instructor; John Fairfield Sly, Ph.D., Professor; Harold Hance Sprout, Ph.D., Assistant Professor; Paul Tutt Staf- On leave, 1940-1941. CliiUs Mason Graham Corwin