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

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Professor I. (). Wade. (Juiinnaii. Department of Modern Langnaiies and Literatures ever, the humanities principally liberate by opening to individuals the experience and culture of other men in iitlier times and regions than their own. Whether ap- proached as artistic expression or as history or as philos- ophy, the subject matter of humanistic studies requires a reaching beyond the localisms of one ' s own race, nation, time and epoch. The invitation and challenge is to an alert, disciplined and sufficiently broad understanding for the sound conduct of personal and national life. Professors A. T. MacAllister. R. S. Willis. A. L Foulet, Department oj Modern Languages and Literatures Professors H. Cottier, C. T. Dunklin. L. A. Lanila, H. L. Savage, Department oi English - ' rofcssor A. Mendel. ( hairnian. Department oi Music

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At Princeton the hun: ' .nities have long been regarded as the main instrument in the liberal education to which the University seeks to expose each of its students. A liberal education, we do well to remember, is liberal when it frees, not when it hands out a bargain package of easy knowledge without activation of mind or imagin- ation. There are countless ways in which the humanities may free the mind and the imagination, for the human individual, past and present, remains an end in himself and a creature of marvellous variability. Perhaps, how- Professors T. C. Young. Chairman, L. V. Thomas, Department oj Oriental Languages and Literatures !!!!!:»■■ ' ttmrrinMM Professors L. uoil. Chairman, R. M. Scoon. Departnirnl of Fhilosuphy Professors E. Forbes. R. Sessions, 0. Sirunk, J. M. Knapp. Department of Miisir 17

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I ' lul,— u,- .1. I. Ann-ln.iif:. F. C Ihiuiiu-. Ilfiiurtnwfil ol Classics What. we are often asked these days, is the practi- cal value of the humanities ' ? ' To one who is totally com- mitted to goals of cash or power, perhaps the answer must he None. It is none except to show, as suggested above, the inadequacy of such goals for a human life. Still the prospective salesman or business executive has his leisure to worry about, and Time magazine? Or will he make his leisure into opportunities for reflection and discovery? The future banker, doctor, lawyer will be dealing with human beings, and often too he will be in- volved by his profession in complex social situations. Will he rely on technical know-how to thrust his way to success, or will he also want to bring to his work a broad and deep awareness of human needs and aspira- Pniff n, W.J. (.lal.-. ( linirtiian. Department oi Classics Profe oi!; K. ViVilzniann. (I. RuHlt-y. 11. D. Eg hfit. Department oi Art anil Ari haeology mum 19