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

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[osii ' ii Brown is an Associate Professor of Sdilpturc in Ihc Art and Archaeolog)- Dcpailnicnt. Mr. Broun was a foolball and l)o in! siai at Temple and was a pro- fessional boxer before embarking upon a career in siiilplnre. Known for award- winning crcalioirs. he has contributed to the (iiiversitv the liron e relay rinmers at the Dillon (Ivnniasinin doois and a statne of the late Princeton coach, Charles Cald- well. Trancis R. B. C.onoi.iMiiN. ' 24, served for a lime as Chairman of the Classics Depart- ment and is now Mnsgrave Professor of I.atin. Following World War fl he held the post of Dean of the College. In 1955 Dr. (.odolphin turned his fidl attention to his academic career and no ' lectures courses in (ireek diama and Roman eleg ' . In the lileiaiv field he has edited The Greek Hisidiiiius and The l.nlin Poels and has contribnled to J ' er.speclix ' es L ' .S.A. Professor Ji an LAiiAiir. a native of France, has extended his career in archi- tecture, urban planning, and landscape archilectnie into .seven countries. Before coming to Princeton in 1928. Professor I.abatnt taught at the . iiierican School of Fine .Arts, Palais de Fontainbleau. France. He has received several Fellowships, prizes, and me lals, including a (iraiiil Prix de Rome. One of his greatest adiievemenls was the accepiaiue of his plan for the future dexelopinent of Paris b the iil authorities in 1931. ' . Professoi I.abaliit was chief architect for the Printelon .Vrdiliei- tural Laboratory, and he now spends many hours there doing researdi. Professor Jamis W. Smith came to Princeton, his alma mater, in 1916 to teach philosophy. At piesent C:hairman of the Special Program in .American Cavllizalion. Professor Smith picvioush taught at Har- vard and lectured at Oxford, where, as a Rhodes Scholar, he received his M.. . ' Fo students beginning the siud of philos:)- phv, lie is well known for his abillt lo make the works of Plato. Hume, and Kant both inteiesting and understandable. Dr. H. W. ' k:ior I.ANcr. Chairman of the newly-created Deiiartmenl of Ccr- manic Fanguages and l.ileralnres. came to Princeton in 1957 from Cornell. Born and educated in Germany. Fange was the for- mer head of the Cerman section of the Modern Languages Departmeiu. .Mlhongh his piimarv inieresl is in (.oetlie. he now teaches the contemporary German litera- ture courses. 19

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FACULTY Professor Carlos Hi ard ISakfr, an authority in the related fields of modern American and English literature, lectiues in Modern Litera- ture . His .study on Hemingua). Hrmingirnx, the Writer as Artist, is regarded as the classic reference somce on the subject. While on leave of absence in 1958. he completed his first fulMength novel, .1 Friend ill Power, which has been widely acclaimed by critics. More recently. Professor Baker in estig.Ttcd the influence of the lUble in literature. . leading scholar in the field of philosophy, .Associate Professor Walter RNOLn KaufmaiW is well known on i;hii])us for his Philosophy of Reli- gion course, which has expanded in cmollment from eight to well over one hinidrcd students in the few years since its inception. Outside the University Professor Kaufmann is known as a pio- lific writer on existential thought and a staimch defender of Xiel schc against those who charge that he was the father of the Nazi philosophy. C. RL Weinrich. internationally known or- ganist and Director of Music in the Princeton l ' ni cisity Chapel since l9t.S. holds the position of Professor in Princetons Department of Music. Mr. Weimich began his musical studies in his home town of Paterson and continued them in New York, Philadelphia, and Paris, being awarded a scholarship at the Curtis Institute, Philadelphia. There he completed his organ studies under Lynwood Farnam. Being acknowl- edged one of the greatest living interpieters of the organ music of Bach, he is also a champion ot contemporary music, having edited the Schoenberg Variations . Humanities Holmes Professor of Belle Letties and Chairman of the Department of I ' .nglish, Wiii.VRii Thori- has been on the faculty since 1926, the year he received fiis doctorate at Princeton. Dr. Thorp has been the guiding light on the Special Pro- gram iir . merican Cixilization, scrxing as its director from its inception in 1942 imtil 195. ' ). He is probably best known to the undergraduate body as lectuier in the popular Main Currents in American Uteratme course.

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1)1. Archibald T. MacAl- iisiiR, JR., is a professor of Ilaliaii in tlif Dcpartiiifiil of Romance l.aMi;iiases and I.it- eraliues. C ' .oinbinin; a lic ' a y leacliinj; sclieiUile uitli atl- luinisuatixe responsibilities, lie lias coiueiuraled on the improvement of foreign lan- guage leaching through the liexelopment of new teaching methods and course content. He is tlie author of an article (111 Dante in . Dicliouary of Mouil Philoscip i and an in- lioduclion to Jolm Ciardi ' s translation of Dante ' s Inferno. Professor . ' ii.AN S. Do ViNER ' s interest in the theatre dates back to his childhood in Syra- cuse where he acted in stock productions. Today his in- terests range from modern musical comedy to Dramatic , ' ction and Oliaracterization on the Elizabethan Stage . A member of the Knglish de- partment since 1946, Profes- sor Downer etlited Tioenty- five Modern I ' lays and has directed productions of the Princeton Communitv Players. Roger Humncton Sessions, the first occupant of Princeton I ' nixersitv ' s William Schubael Professorship of Music and one of the modern world ' s most versatile men of music , has won wide recognition for his svmphoiiic compositions. He is a past winner of both the New o V. Music Critic ' s Circle Award and of the Nauinburg Foundation .Award, which is annually conferred for the most distinguished orchestral composition ol the year. Professor Sessions has also been the recipient of nunicious fellowships in the musical field. .Assistant I ' lokssoi ol Knglish Rhmnkh I. Li ' DWic. was elevated to the chairmanship of the Special Program in the Humanities this ear. Dr. I.udwig came to Priiueion in 1950 and cur- rently hokis a bicentennial preceptorship which was established to encourage the development of the teaching capacity and scholarship among the younger members of the faculty. Lecturing on .American Poetry this year. Dr. Liidwig has a special interest in the forms of American literature. .Associate Professor |oh Ripert Martin, a veteran of the Xormandv landing on D-Day, was appointed an -Assistant Professor of Art and .Archaeology in the fall of 1948. Interested pri- marily in the liaroque period. Professor Martin gi es a course in the history of European paint- ing. His publications include The lUusirulion of the Heavenly Ladder of John Clhnaeus, and articles for the Art Bnllelin. Jonrnal of Aes- theties. Art Criticism, and Colles e Art Jonrnal.