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

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ROBERT ScooN STANLEY E. Howfnzn DANA G. MUNRO Pbzloropby Erafzozizzri' SPIA broken collar bone, Doctor York and his staff are always ready to help the men who need it. As every athlete knows, there is no sport which does not have a doctor at the trainer's table every day of practice, and the nurses in the infirmary are always ready to remedy the ordinary ills of campus life. As a part of its physical fitness program the department of PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND ATHLETICS exposes all freshmen to three hours of exercise per week. This workout is always broad and is adjusted to the abilities and development of the men. To this is added the program of intra- mural and inter-collegiate sports which gives every man a chance to keep in trim and provide an out- let for his excess energy. The Department of AERONAUTICAL EN- GINEERING aims to develop better aircraft and to train men, against the background of a program of research, to enter the air world, especially the new era of jet propulsion. The addition of new equipment will have a profound influence on this work. The new wind tunnel will generate speeds up to 3800 miles per hour, and the rocket propul- sion lab will be an important addition to that phase of experiment. CHEMICAL ENGINEERING is concerned with the practical application of new chemical knowledge, and lab courses are the prime means of gaining experience in this line. Special courses deal with metallurgy, thermodynamics, and the technical calculation of the chemistry involved. The CIVIL ENGINEERING Department is the first one that the prospective freshman comes in contact with. Dealing with land measurement it gives him his first taste of accurate operation and alalysis. The upperclassman goes into the more complex aspects of the work. The most evident example of this is the five mile cross-country course which was laid out to be two, three, and five miles long, both beginning and ending at Palmer Stadium. Preliminary training is the aim of the ELEC- TRICAL ENGINEERING Department. The field is so diverse today that the student can only hope to know a small portion of it. Witll two or three years of experience he will be able to go ahead with independent research work. This department has new labs, and work is progressing in ultra- sonics with new electrical computors, magnetic amplifiers, and micro-wave measuring instruments. GEOLOGICAL ENGINEERING differs from geology in that it is designed for the man who

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over 400 percent in the past year. It aims to trace the Christian tradition for the student who is truely interested in religion and its place in the world today. But it is not solely Christian thought. There are courses or parts of courses devoted to the other principal philosophies, and this year there is a native oriental lecturing on the religions of his culture. Combining the resources of English, History, Modern Languages, Music, Classics, Philosophy, and Religion the DIVISIONAL PROGRAM IN THE I-IUMANITIES is the ultimate of the liberal element in Princeton. Being primarily designed to cut across departmental lines, it achieves the goal of allowing specialization in almost any desired subject. It emphasizes the idea of developing the students' potentialities as a member of a civiliza- tion with a long and complex heritage. The Pro- gram aims to develop the major movements of western culture which are basic to the proper understanding of the world today. As an integral part of Princeton in the Nation's Service the SCHOOL OF PUBLIC AND INTER- NATIONAL AFFAIRS trains men both for pub- lic service and for an intelligent understanding of the world of the present day. Combining the fea- tures of the Economics, History and Politics de- partments it operates through the conference, which is an analysis of a major problem of the times. The topics for this year are Russia, and American policy toward Poland and Hungary in the international realm and Economic aid to China, and Agricultural Policy in the domestic. A major beneficiary of the Third Century Fund, it aims to have a new building of its own. This will enable a greatly expanded program and an aug- mentation of the graduate program which will go into effect in the fall. Filling a definite need for an overall desire to know the background of the civilization in which we live the AMERICAN CIVILIZATION pro- gram covers work in the Art, Economics, I-Iistory, Philosophy, and Politics departments. It aims to help the undergraduate himself as a member of a living culture. Like the SPIA it operates through the conference which at the present time is de- voted to the role of the Elite in our society. Concern for the health and well being of the undergraduate has long been an important feature of Princeton life. The department of HEALTH carries on this tradition. From the initial physical examination of all freshmen to the setting of a IRA WADE GEORGE A. GRAHAM WHITNEYJ OATES .Modem Lrzzzgzzrzger Polizfirf H ummz Z

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knows from the start that he is going into some field of geology, and who desires the greatest amount of technical training possible in the field. Prof. Thom has built his department primarily around field research and it is here that the de- velopments are made. Last summer's work was carried on in cooperation with the Geology De- partment. Research of all types was done and one party had the unique satisfaction of finding that one oil held of a potential of 100 million barrels actually contained five times that amount. In GRAPHICS AND ENGINEERING DRAWING the aim is to teach the language of the engineer. Emphasis is placed upon the art of projection and interpretation of all types of tech- nical drawings. One phase of the department not so well known is the course in essentials of graphics which is especially designed for the lib- eral arts student. MECHANICAL ENGINEERING is about as close as any one department comes to being a general one. Concerned with a wide range of topics such as thermodynamics, metal processing, hydraulics, and engineering administration, the department devotes all of its energies to the train- ing of the undergraduate. A new building is planned to house this department and its new plastics program. The School of Engineering is much younger than the Arts college. Civil Engineering was estab- lished in 1875, and the other departments have been added as the need arose-the Basic Engineer- ing course being developed as recently as 1938. The Princeton Engineer is the University's claim to the practical aims of education. Although he spe- cializes in early hours and long labs and seems to live in a world of manuals and formulae, the B. S. is not separated from the rest of the student body as is the case in so many schools. He participates in all the activities and almost all the courses that the A. Bfs do, and thereby gains a wide expe- rience. Princeton, by requiring more of its en- gineers, strives to make them educated as well as trained. I WILLARD Ti-rom: American Civilizfzliwz WILEUR H. YORK Heafib Roy K. FAIRMAN Pbyriml Edllt'tlII0ll 1