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

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DEDICATION THAT WISE and FAMILIAB FACE on the facing page, etched with the lines of multiple responsibilitv happil) and productivel) assumed, belongs to the man who this year retires as President of the University. He has served so well in that capacity for twenty-four years — the longest and greatest administration of them all. As a MAN he has won the respect and love of all those with whom he has been associated. His sincerity, judgment, honesty, and humility have endeared him to the unusually critical educational community. As an EDUCATOR and an ADMINISTRATOR he has managed to be one of the most effective of university presidents, without relying on stirring platform or radical reform. He has been a launcher and a builder, leading many thousands of young men out into the various life of the nation, and building under them a great university in which the), and we, may well take pride: a brilliant and hard working faculty, a changing and challenging curriculum, a student body of ever-increasing potential, a graduate school of intellectual frontiersmen, a firm and growing endow- ment, an efficientl) human administration, and such edifices of stone and mortar as our times and pressures — and our inward needs — have required. He has built slowlj and well on foundations that he never desired to alter, wanting less to create than to conserve | I thai in basic philosoph) Princeton has nol changed in the last twenty-four years. He has been one of the strongest defenders of the whole of liberal education, believing that it is education for use — not so much for the specific infor- mation it gives students, although this is often important; but because, in general, it teaches those habits of thought and analysis which permit students to absorb, quickly and accurately, new knowledge and appl) it with judgment. Trained intelligence, wide range of vision, discipline of mind and spirit — for Princeton to impart these qualities to each of its graduates has been his goal. The magnitude of achievement that has marked his six quadrenniums as President of Princeton can onlv inadequalelv he summarized or evaluated. He must be thought of as a guiding force, a co-ordinating thinker who put his ideas into practice in a maimer which developed and further strengthened an already strong institution. To HAROLD WILLIS DODDS for what be has done and for what he magnificentlj is— we respectfully dedicate this volume.

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FOREWORD X earbooks differ widely in their attempts to record the fleeting moments that represent college life. Some meticulously divide the school year into seasons, some force heterogeneous events to conform to an all-embracing theme, while others, like the Bric-a-Brac endeavor to syn- thesize the vast complex of college pursuits, presenting activities in a logically readable manner. The year 1956-57 has contained significant milestones. Nassau Hall ' s bicentennial, the retirement of our distin- guished President Harold Dodds, the appointment of a young classics professor to the University ' s highest post — these and other events have marked this memorable year. We are on the threshold of a new era, where progress and expansion are vital and present issues. In the Bric-a-Brac s attempt to capsule the intellectual, social, or athletic phenomena of such a year lies a great and ever-present danger — the easy-to-make inference that college life falls into well-defined compartments, whose boundaries are set by conventional divider pages. In reality the truth lies far from this literal interpretation. Through the unique process of socialization, Princeton scientists, athletes, engineers, and scholars drink a full draught from the beer mug of life, giving to the term liberal education a most meaningful connotation. CONTENTS DEDICATION Page 6 NASSAU HALL Page 14 UNIVERSITY Page 16 ORGANIZATIONS Page 51 ATHLETICS Page 111 SOCIAL

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Harold Willis Dodds, ph.d., l.h.d., litt.d., ll.d. President of Princeton University, 1933-1957