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

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F I R ST iU A DRENN] U M : F. STA B LI S H M E N T i 933- i 937 meantime: Germany got a Nazi Chancellor Eg Mussolini look Ethiopia; Edward I 111 lost a throne £g );. Kendall (now at Princeton) isolated Cortisone; Roosevelt won his first two terms, Spain erupted in war, Eire was horn, Okies were uprooted, the Hinden- Imrg burned, is Gone With the Wind sold something over a million copies. The youngest Princeton President in s years, he took office in his forty-fourth year, on the nine- teenth of June, to face un- daunted the problems of the Depression, as in his fifty-fourth year he was destined to face, still un- daunted, the problems of a World War, and in his sixty-fourth year, un- daunted still, the prob- lems of Inflation. With the same equanimity and good humor which had so well served him as Director of the Princeton SECOND QUADREN ' 93 Now, having always believed in learning by doing, he facilitated the introduction of the Creative Arts and Graphic Arts Programs. Now, further, the son of the Reverend Samuel Dodds assisted in the launching of a new De- partment of Religion. Now the longtime Secre- tary and President of the National Municipal League introduced the Bureau of Urban Re- search to the campus. Now he established Advisory Councils to all Departments of The University. Now the farsighted administrator set up the Princeton University Fund, which through many M E A Nil M E : Shirley Temple turned ten, King Farouk married, is Orson If ' elles Martianized Sew Jersey ? environs. Roosevelt won a third term is Whirhway a Kentucky Derby. Hitler in- vaded Poland is war began. London was bombed, Stalingrad besieged, Trotsky murdered, and Rudolph Hess interned. Survey of the Administration and Expenditures of the Government of the State of New Jersey, he now turned to the establishment of his university as a productive force in the life of the state and the nation. He inaugurated a plan for pensions and group insurance in the faculty; made possible the Office of Public Opinion Research, the Princeton Surveys of Local and State Government, and the Office of Population Research. Now, too, he welcomed the new Department of Music and the Program in the Humanities, first of the boundary- crossing study-plans that would develop under his wise guidance in the years ahead. This first quadren- nium began a long and honorable presidential career. NIUM: PREPARATION 7-194 ' future years would become the university ' s Samari- tan of Solvency. Now the educational statesman, a full eighteen months before Pearl Harbor, and despite national duties which strained his energies to the utmost, established a preparatory commit- tee whose task was to coordinate all the university ' s resources in man-power to be ready, at need, in the nation ' s service. Come what may, he said at the 1940 Commencement Kxercises, the University . . . promises that its whole organization, men, facilities and equipment, are again at the disposal of our government as it may require them, the visible symbol, it might be said, of 21,000 loyal alumni whom you of the Class of 1940 have joined this morning. The times were parlous but the man, as well as his university, was now prepared to act. rHIRD iM A I) RE [94I. This one began with Pearl Harbor. Within a week of tins dark day, such was his foresight, the Presi- dent announced plans 1 far ahead of other uni- versities) for Princeton ' s reorganization in the total war. These included ac- celeration for students, instruction for industrial workers, and the forging ot faculty striking power in all divisions of the war effort from weapon design to propaganda. While 10,000 alumni entered meantime: Bataan Es Corregidor; Coral Sea Eg Midway i North Africa is Italy: Quebec, Cairo, Teheran, is Yalta; the Normandy beaches Eg the depth. ' of Leyte Gulf; Hiroshima is :. I -I: Day, now I ' -J Day, £g JSJ eve name.- in gold in the central heart of Nassau Hall. NNIl m: war ' 945 the armed services, Princeton became a military post, training :o,ooo men drawn from the armed services, undertaking twenty-five federal research projects of far-reaching consequence. Round the calendar and half-way round the clock, soldiers, sailors, and marines reaped the benefits of both technical and liberal education. As if to signify the university ' s awareness of the value of both types of education came the new Department of Aeronauti- cal Engineering, the new Program in American Civilization, and the plan tor the publication of the papers of Thomas Jefferson. Thus natural sciences, social sciences, and the humanities stood together.

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

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FOURTH QUADRENNI ■945- Now peacetime Princeton exploded with pent-up energy and drove on towards her two hundredth birthday. These years saw the establishment of the program for returning servicemen, the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Program, the NROTC, the University Research Fund to spur scholarly activity in the humanities and social sciences, the Higgins Trust for Scientific Research, a broadened scholarship program to fit new needs and times, the graduate program in the School of Public and In- ternational Affairs, the Center for Research in World Political Organizations, and the program (prophetically enough) in Near Eastern Studies. Now mind and body alike benefited as an outgrown um: reconversion 1949 Pyne yielded up its books to Firestone, and a gleam- ing Dillon replaced the burnt-out shell of the old gymnasium, heralding a golden age in Princeton MEANTIME: Men mourned the deaths sports. The FerrisThomp- j Qandhi, Roosevelt, Ford, Benes, son Faculty Houses now Forrestal, ftj George Herman Ruth. grew beside the stadium, Others departed unmourned: Hitler, and married veterans Mussolini, Quisling, Laval, Goebbels, .,..,. i 1 ft? Al Capone. Churchill named the raised families where polo r . , . Iron Curtain, Truman beat Dewey, players had once raised Faulkner won the N(jM Prhg dust. Now the University celebrated its Bicenten- nial with a year-long series of symposiums on the intellectual state of the nation and the world fifth quadrennium: consolidation I 949- I 953 Now the Bicentennial Preceptorships and the Christian Gauss Seminars in Criticism began to nourish the intellectual lives of the younger faculty and, incidentally, their students. Now the Forrestal Research Center was set up and developed, Wood- row Wilson Hall became the headquarters for the School of Public and International Affairs, the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Program moved out into the national scene under the leadership of a classics professor named Robert F. Goheen. Now the Council of the Humanities became a vigorous reality. Now the new Special Program in European Civilization joined the programs in the Humanities, in American Civilization, and in Near Eastern sixth quadrennium: d J 953- The bell in Old North cracked and was retired, but the handsome and vigorous man in the pilot-house below continued with unimpaired faculties - and faculty - to ring useful changes on the Princeton scene. Yet he retained the core of mellow congeni- ality and friendship which drew alumni home to Princeton year after year. Liberal education for use was his watchword now as heretofore, and quality education in depth was his preferred emphasis. In his closing quadrennium as president, he built, as always, for the long future: permanent occupancy housing for his faculty; statesmanlike asssignment of the Ford Foundation grants; the blueprinting of campus building plans to benefit science, engineer- ing, and the humanities; the opening of graduate study in the Department of Religion; the inception and operation of the new Princeton Conferences; the organization of the Board of Science and Engi- Studies, while the Air Force ROTC joined the Army and Navy training programs on the campus. The Industrial Relations Section was endowed, the meantime: )? United Nations build- Architectural Laboratory in S was dedicated in New York fc? the developed, the Center of Korean war be S an - % ueen Elizabeth T . , „ .. . was crowned and Eisenhower beat International studies and „,. , . , . . Stevenson. 1 he first hydrogen bomb the Rockefeller Public decimated Eniwetok, and the New York Service Awards were wel- Yankees decimated their World Series comed, a new Student op-position a 5th time in as many years. Center gleamed in Chan- cellor Green, and the Gertrude Mathey faculty houses rose to ornament West College Road, just as the Doddses would do at a somewhat later time. EI SUB NUMINE VIGET 1957 neering Research; the steady development of plans for Corporate Giving. Now Annual Giving, through his inspiration and the immense loyalty of alumni, reached unprecedented heights. Now, in fitting cere- mony, he rededicated Nassau Hall for its next two hundred years, to the in- cidental delight of philat- „ j j ,1 1 ' meantime: Korea ended, the hur- elists. Now, on the oc- ricanes Carol Diane blew away casion of the centenary of $1,500,000,000, the Nautilus was Woodrow Wilson ' s birth, launched. Now Bannister beat the four- he looked back to the minute mile, Hemingway won the Nobel achievements of another Prize « Eisenhower returned to the „ . . . hite House for a second term. great Princeton President. And now he looked for- ward, as was his custom, with a generous and joy- ous welcome to the distinguished young scholar- administrator whom the Trustees had selected to be his successor in the difficult years lying ahead.