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

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w I ' liolo In G;il)or F.dtr ROBERT FRANCIS GOHEEN, PH.D., LL.D THE PRESIDENT

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PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRINCETON NEW JERSEY president ' s ROOM May 1, I960 To the Class of 1961: This 82nd edition of the Bric-A-Brac , linking Princeton Present and Princeton Future with the vigorous decades of James McCosh ' s adminis- tration, emphasizes a quality the great universities of the western world share in common with the church and state. This is continuity. And in the university, as in the church and state, the successes or failures of the past inevitably are of far-reaching importance to the present, while the actions of the present leave alw ays their shaping impress on the future. Princeton ' s classrooms and laboratories, as President McCosh saw so clearly in the 1870 ' s and 1880 ' s when the Bric-A-Brac was brought into being, are among the forges of the nation ' s future. In them our scholars draw upon the great store of contributions made to every facet of civiliza- tion by past generations, and to this accumulated experience they add the fresh insight that is the essential ingredient in the development of creative manpower and new ideas -- manpower and ideas to serve not alone our own times but the on-coming generations as well. Here we have the essential link between the Princeton of today and the Princeton of President McCosh. In the same way the College of New Jersey in the third quarter of the 19th century accepted the challenges presented by a changing and expanding nation, we in the 1960 ' s must do everything within our power to make certain that Princeton, in a time of heightened national growth and responsibility, continues to develop as a stronghold of excellence -- as a vital and contributing force in the forefront of American higher education. To hold such a place, and to be such a positive influence in what President Wilson called the very exigent matter of lifting all of the counsels of the country to a higher plane and place and opportunity of vision is what all of us, I am sure, are determined upon for Princeton. This is our job and we must not fail, if Princetonians decades from now are to be as proud of their Princeton as we are of ours: the University we have inherited from those who have gone before us. With all good wishes. Sincerely, Robert F. Goheen

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THE DEANS Dr. Jeremiah S. Finch became Dean of the College in 1955. Previously he had been a member of the English Department and during World War f I served as both Assistant to the Dean of the Faculty and as Seaetary of the Committee on Scholastic Guidance. Under the direction of his office falls the administra- tion of all undergraduate studies and the various com- mittees and agencies which are concerned with the de elopment of the academic side of undergraduate activities. Along this line the Dean of the College is responsible for the enforcement of the rules and standards connected with scholarship. Before joining the Princeton faculty, Dean Finch taught in the Department of English at Cornell Uni- versity, from which he has a Master of Arts degree. He came to this university in 1936 and after the war served as Executive Secretary of the Princeton I rogram tor Sei icemeii returning to college. (Jn the extra- curricular side. Dean Finch has been active on the Borough of Princeton ' s Board of Education and on boards of several other Princeton organizations. Dr. J. Doii(;las Brown, Dean of the Faculty, came to Princeton as a member of the class of 1919, earned his Master ' s and Ph.D. degrees here and then joined the faculty as an instructor of Economics in 1921. A member of President Hoo er ' s Emergency Connnittee for Employment during the early years of the depres- sion, he was later one of the economists who aided in the planning of the Social Security Act of 1935. For several years he served the Government as an expert consultant on labor and during the war advised the War Department and the Secretary of State on matters in his field. In I91() Dr. Brown succeeded the late Dean Robert K. lioot as Dean of the I- ' aculty. He continued as Director of the Industrial Relations Sec- tion in the Department of Economics and Sociology until 1955. As Dean of the Faculty he is responsible for the coordination of curriculum, staff, and policy among the many academic activities of the University. Dean Brown also has authority over the departments of instruction anci other matters insofar as the effective- ness and duties of the faculty are concerned. Joseph Clifton Elgin, a member of the faculty since 1929, was named Dean of Princeton University ' s School of Engineering in 1954. Dean Elgin realizes the importance to an engineering curricidum of a broad Ijase of both science and liberal arts as opposed to the approach to engineering through specialized technologies and skills, and the programs of study in the school reflect it. After receiving his Master of Science degree from the University of Virginia, Dean Elgin came to Prince- ton, where he earned his Ph.D. From 1939 on he served as Chairman of the Department of Chemical Engineering and from 1951 to 1954 was Associate Dean of the school. Durin ' c)rld War II he served the overnment as a member of the National Defense Research Committee and, while on a leave of absence from the university, worked at the S.A.M. Laboratories of the Manhattan Project. Dean Elgin is a Trustee of the Proctor Foun- dation and is an active member of several national scientific organizations. Jeremiah Staiuon Finch, Ph.D. James Douglas Brown Ph.D., Litt.D., L.H.D., Ll.D. Joseph C:lilton Elgin, I ' ll I). 14