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

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PHY ICS Last year, Dr. H. D. Smyth, author of the Well-known MAtomic Energy for Military Purposes, retired as Chair- man of the Physics Department to become one of the five members of the Atomic Energy Commission, and Profes- sor A. G. Shenstone has since succeeded him .... The Department has an abundance of modern equipment at its disposal in the Palmer Physical Laboratory. This year marked the construction of a new cyclotron for splitting the nuclei of atomic particles, after the ruin of the original one by fire last year. Lately the Department has been more in demand as a center of research in nuclear physics and cosmic rays than as an undergraduate center of learn- ing .... Ten seniors are enrolled in the department this year. About half of these will go on to graduate Work and from there enter into either teaching or research. Depart- mental studies are either experimental or theoretical. ALLEN COODRICH SHENSTONE Back Row: A. S. Wightman, C. N. Whyte, R. Sherr-Third Row: W. Franzen, B. C. Carlson, W. C. Griffith, E. P. Tomlinson, D. R. Hamilton, R. F. Mozley-Second Row: E. D. Courant, E. M. Rogers, J. W. Keuffel, P. C. Gugulot, L. C. Bradley III, D. E. Hudson-Front Row: W. Bleakney, R. W. Ladenburg, A. C. Shenstone, M. G. White, H. L. Pryce. 29

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Back Row: G. D. W. Berry, G. A. Wadleton, J. B. Rawls, F. A. Olafson, W. A. Kaufmann---Front Rau W T Stace J. Maritnin, R. Seoon, L. Wood, J. 0. Urmson. The Philosophy Department has increased its enrollment and personnel during tl1e year, adding two new instructors, a11d arranging an exchange with Oxford, whereby Prince- ton's Professor James Ward Smith lectured at Christ Col- lege on American philosophy, while 0Xford's Professor .L O. Urmson, fellow and tutor at Christ College, taught courses in ethics and the theory of knowledge at Prince- t0ll .... Among the faculty, J. Maritain, prominent Cath- olic philosopher, gave a series of lectures at the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies in Toronto, while the Uni- versity Press published a new book by W. A. Kaufmann, and WT. T. Stace finished out a term as President of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Associa- tio11. Professor Scoon completed his nineteenth year as Departmental Chairman. w.,v-ku PHI! OSOPHY ROBERT SCOON ge fenced? Lord Bertrand Russell was the speaker at a public lec- ture sponsored by the Department of Philosophy and the Spencer Trask Lecture Foundation on November 10, talk- ing on the subject of NMind and Matterl' to an overflow crowd in lVIcCosh 50. ,lust preceding his lecture word was received that Lord Russell had been selected as a recipient of the l950 Nobel Prize in literature.

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Back Row: W. M. Beaney, Jr., N. V. Joy, R. W. Yun Wangellen C E Baker R 'VI Huber B M blpm Third How: H. F. Hadley, A. A. Rogow, W. W. Lockwood, E. S. FUIHI s ,lr 'VI A Hall H E Thurber Second Row J. G. LaPombara, J. E. McLean, A. L. Alford, D. H. Riddle, D R Mitthew B Adkmson E Line I'ront Row H. L. Childs, J. B. Whitton. W. S. Myers, H. H. Sprout J D Noorhees .I P Slv A T Mnson Members of Princeton's Politics Department do not con- fine their activities to academic instructiong many of them play a prominent role in our national government. During the year Professor Bernstein spent two days a week i11 Washington working on the Bridget Bureauis plan for stand-by price controlsg Professor Graham worked with graduate students on a report about Hlld for the Depart- ment of the lnteriorg and during the summer of 1950, Mr. Lane Worked as an advisor to the Buchanan Lobbying Committee in Washington .... A new senior seminar un- der Professor Ebenstein on the problem of government planning in a democratic country proved most success- ful .... Professor Ebenstein is also working on a new book discussing political and philosophical problems from Plato to Lenin, while Professor Mason has started work on a biography of Justice Stone. POZ! T165 30