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

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MA THEM!! TIES WW ln February Mr. Herman Weyl, Professor of Mathe- matics at the Institute for Advanced Study and one of the Worldis foremost mathematicians, gave four lectures 011 the general subject of MSymmetry. The lectures were spon- sored hy the Louis Clark Vanuxem Foundation, one of several such funds which provide for the deliverance of various lectures at Princeton. The small but highly regarded Mathematics Department is primarily a graduate department, with relatively few undergraduate majors .... The departmental students split up after leaving Princeton, some going into statistical work, others into mathematical physics, and a few into higher levels of education, although general business, banking, and engineering claim most .... WCll-kIlOWH nationally are Departmental Chairman Solomon Lefschetz, who worked on the Oflice of War Research project of differen- tial equationsg E. P. Wigner, of the Manhattan Project, and S. S. Wilks, consultant of the Hoover Commission. i SOLOMON LEFSCHETZ Buck Row: J. T. Tate, Jr., J. W. Tukey, D. C. Spencer, R. C. l.ymlon, A. llargmann-Front Row: A. W. Tucker, E. Artin, S. Lefschetz, A. Church, W. Feller. 1

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Back Row: M. duP. Lee, Jr., R. L. Powell, H. A. Meier, R. M. Huber, C. C. Gillispie, J. A. Iseley, J. Blumg Second Row: W. L. Woodfill, R. D. Chullener, C. B. Turner, D. R. Kennedy, E. A. Beller, T. E. Mommsen, E. F. Goldmang Front Row: E. H. Harlrison, R. R. Palmer, D. G. Munro, J. R. Strayer, W. P. Hall, G. A. Craig, W. F. Craven. One of the larger departments of the University, the His- tory Department provides courses for half the student en- rollment .... The department boasts such me11 as W. P. Hall, author of many books, Departmental Chairman J. R. Strayer, an authority on medieval history, E. H. Harbison, an expert on Renaissance history, and G. A. Craig, a spe- cialist in diplomatic history .... Wesley Frank Craven has been named Edwards Professor of American History, and as a specialist in colonial history, joins these distin- guished ranks .... The members of the department are preparing a Marine Corps :History of Amphibious Opera- tions which will be published soon a11d will be the first detailed history of amphibious operations ever compiled. HISTORY Qfmalcl 2 Wledam '09 Judge Medina made two speaking appearances at Prince- ton during the year, first giving a talk to the Graduate Council in the fall on Wfhe Princeton Class as a Study in Democracy, then making the principal address at the Se- nior Banquet in the winter.

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MODERN ZANGUA 655' Many undergraduates drop modern language study after they have been taught the fundamentals, thus neglecting the rich cultural offerings in the upper-class courses. The Modern Languages and Literatures Department has faced this problem by exerting its influence with schools to have more of the elementary aspects of the languages taught, and is developing a branch of European literature, read in English translation but with lecturers who are experts in the original languages .... Among the members of the department are Americo Castro, an authority 011 Spanish literature and a former diplomat to Spain, Gilbert Chinard, whose field is Franco-American literature and the influence of French literature in the United States, and the Italian scholar, Juliano Bonfante. The departmental chairman, I. O. Wade, is Well-known for his work on eighteenth- century literature. IRA OWEN WADE Buck Row: J. B. Rust, E. L. King, R. L. Walters, J. B. Hughes, J. Fontanet., W. C. Hollmann, P. S. Eristoff-Second Row: A. Sicroif, R. Kuehnemund, J. Piccus, R. W. Hartle, B. W. Bates, G. R. Loehr, E. Anderson-Imbertr, B. Ulmer, M. E. Coindreau, A. T. MacAllister, Jr., W. Silz, V. Llorens, E. B. O. Borgerhoff. 26