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

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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

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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: E. Forbes, J. M. Knapp, E. T. Cone-Front Row: C. Wein1'i1'l1, B. Mnrtinu, R. D. Wel1'h, 0. Strunk, R. A. Cook. ROY DICKINSON WELCH With only ten departmental students, the Music Depart- ment itself is small and fairly specialized, but strives to make music available to undergraduates through its large underclass courses. Wllile departmental students do not necessarily prepare for a career i11 music, the training is such that they may do so. Graduates are prominent in music criticism, radio, and teaching .... The Acting Chairman is J. Merrill Knapp, a11d prominent members of the de- partment include Bohuslav Martinu, famed Czech com- poser, and Oliver Strunk, musicologist and former Chief of the Music Division of the Library of Congress .... The department also feels a responsibility for the various un- dergraduate musical organizations, and their directors are members of the Music faculty. Naturally there is a close bond between the concert life of the Princeton community and the department. The Friends of Music and the Prince- toll University Concerts are both connected with the Music Department .... The University is mourning the loss of Roy D. Welch, Music Departmental Chairman, who died this fall. Ml! I0 27