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

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This t ' ;ir Hvde Solomon, ;i well known cn] ii llPlll l p.iinicr. hci.nni- the l ' ni cisil ' s arlisl in rcsiikiKc. K;i(li week Mr. Solomon leaihcs one (lass in painliiif; anil one in iliawin ;. He was born in lilll in New York ( ' il and ie ei eil Ills liighei ednraiion at C ' .olnmliia and llie New School ol Social Reseaiih. Se eial eais ago he was artist in icsidentc at (loddaid College in I ' lainfield, eiiiionl. His paintings, some of which are exhibited in the Whilncv Miisenin and the I ' oindextcr GalleiN, aic said lo stand between impiessionism anil abstiact ex- pressionism Dr. Ira O. Vade was named to the John N. VVoodhull Professorship of Modern Languages in 1952. . s the first Chairman of Princetons Special Program in Kiiropean Cixili alion. Dr. Wade icceived the I.cgion of Honor ficjm the French tFO ernment in 1 951) for furthering cidtmal relations between the Lnitcd States and France. He is a prolific writer and authority on oltaire and eighteenth century Knrope. RoiiiKi W. Mc;I. i (.111 1 . ' ' 2i. joined the laciiltv of the sdiool of architecture in 195U. . fter receiving his .M.. . from Princeton, he piac- ticcd architecture in New York for twent -six vears. . s Director of tfie School of . rchitectiiic. McLanghlin has continued to support the hmnanilarian a])pi( ach to the subject whidi has characterized the program here, believing that a broa(l educational background is essen- tial for the fulfillment of the aims of the school. fiiRMi) 1 i i s ISiMiiv came to I ' liiueton in 1915 and was appointed the Murray Professor of F.nglish literature in 1952. His special inteiest is diama. spe- cifuallv F.nglish drama of the sixlecnlh and seventeenth cenluries. a period on which he has written several volumes. Professor Ikiitley has held both Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellowships and has lectured on his spedaltv both in this lotintiv and in F.ngland. R. li. . S(()ii. William H. Danfoilh Piolessor of Religion, is well known as a scholar of the Old Testa- ment and is the author of The RtUvnncc of lite I ' rojyhi-ls. now used extensively in colleges and seirii- naries throughout the liiited States, Canada, and Gieat Urilain. Dr. Scott made two trios to Palestine lo stndx the Dead .Sea Scrolls and in 1955 ])nblishe(l his book. Treasinis from Jutlcim C.avi . Fhis car he was elected piesident of the Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis, oldest oiga ni alion of Biblical scholars in the L ' nited States.

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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.

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f Called lioiii a lescaich piojcct in Rome, Dr. Rens- sixi.AR W. l.ii. was appointed Chaiiinan ol llie Art Depart- ini ' Mi in l ' J5(). He is a recog- nized anlhorily on Renais- sance paiming and literature as well as a spciialist in both llie lileratiue and history of alt and architecture. .As a nieniher ol the C;lass of 1920, Dr. Lee won the Stinneckc Prize for Classics and shared the [innor I ' irst Honors Prize. Kor se eral years a member ol the Institute for Advanced Study, he was honored this year vith the Marquand Chair (il An and Arcliaeoloev. Ariiuir Menuix. Chairman of the Music Department, is recog- nized as one of the country ' s leailing authorities on the music of J. S. Bach. . prolific writer, he is a co-editor of the widely known Iliiiii Reader and a for- mer member of the Executive fkiard and Editor of the .Ameri- can Musicological Society, . mong the musical works Professor Mendel has edited are Hach ' s The Passion . ccording to St. John and Schutz ' s The Christ- mas Story . For seyenleen years Professor Mendel was conductor of the Cantata Singers of New York City. WintNry ). () iis. iIk- Andrew Elcming West Pro- fessor of Classics, has been a member of the Princeton faculty since 1927 and is now the Chairman of the Classics Department. Graduating in the Princeton Class of 1925. he took both his M.A. and his Ph.D. at the i;ni ersity. He was largely responsible for the establishment of Princeton ' s Council of the Hinnani- ties and was the driving forte in the de elopmcnt of the National Woodrow ' Wilson Fellowship Program. Joining the faculty in 1933 after two years as a National Research Council Fellow both here and at Cambridge, Dr, Samuel S. Wilks is now Professor of .Mathematical Statistics, In addition to his duties at the Lniyersity he has found time for a great deal of go ernment work. During the war he earned a Presidential Certificate of Merit for his work on anti- submarine warfare and has written Elonentnry Statistical Analysis, a te t- !i(Ktk used ill II I iijrl ■ ' I ,m1 11,1 Ir Mililsrs. Dr. C ARi, Him I ' ll, Piolcssor in the Department of Philosophy since 1955, specializes in the siienlilic and logical aspects relating philosophy to mathematics and the natural sciences, Dr, Hempel has been a consulling editor of the Journal of Symbolic Logic since UHO, has contributed to this and other journals, and has written several books. Dr. Hempel teadies at both nndeigraduale and graduate levels.