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

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A lifelong sliulcril and aiiahsl ol Near Eastern Alfairs and the first Horatio Garrett Professor of Foreign Affairs, T. Cuvler Young was called to Princeton in 1947 as the Uni ersity expanded its program in Near F.astern Studies. Dr. Yonng, having dexoted his life to tlic sliidy of Persia, has come to know its pc()]jlc and customs as a mis- sionary and government official. Cnr- rently an . d ' i.sory Editor to the Middle East Jotinial and the president of the .American Friends of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem, Professor Yomig is one of the few Western scholars ever to be named a Knight of the Holy .Se|)nlchre. Having received his A.B. and graduate degrees from Princeton, Donald Dri.w Ectii-RX joined the faculty in 1929 and was made Professor of Art and . rchaeolog in 1916. He is especially noted for his study of the influence of socialism and communism on art and American life, and he co-authored Socialisiii in A inn icon Life, a two- volume study prejjared under a Rockefeller Grant. He has also written for the Art Bulletin, Speniliini, and other prominent publications. . n associate piofcssor whose special fields are contemporary Spanish roman- ticism and literature, Llr. Edmund L. KiNt; joined the faculty in 1916. A former director of the Mississippi State College Glee Club, Dr. King has had professional training in solo and en- semble singing, and was also a member of the Princeton Society of Musical Amateurs. He is the author of Guslavo Ailiiljilio Bequer: from Pninter to Poet, and the translator of Castro ' s The SliiKline of Spanish History. Associate Professor of Classics P.vui. C1olem. n- NoRTON combines research and teaching with his duties as Latin Scribe of the Ehiiversity. He teaches courses which range from the famous orations of Cicero to the informal reading of the New Testament in Greek. . graduate of Prince- ton and a Rhodes Scholar. Dr. Cloleman-Xortoii is well known as the author ol Tivelre Tiibles, a treatise on Roman Law. 24

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Professor Rkiiare) I ' matik lii ( kmir. oik- of the oulslaiuliiiu; litciaiy riiliis in the coiiiUi . is well known as aiilhoi ' of several collcclioiis of essays, tontril)uloi to lilciaiy journals, poet, anil lectiiicr. Professor Ulackmur joined the Creative Arts Program in I ' JIO. He has held GiiHgenheim fello vslii|)s twice, and has heeii a nieinber of the Institute of d anced .Stiid . This year ' s isiling Fellow in the Christian Gauss .Seminars, .Stan O ' Faoi.ain. is a renowned novelist, biogiapher. and critic, who re- ceived his graduate degrees at llai ard, the National I ' liiversitv of Iieland. and liinitv College of Dublin. . frei|iient contrilititoi to Holiday maga ine. Dr. O ' laolian is spending one car on campus leaching a (lass in creative writing and conducting a (iaiiss Seminar on I lie I ' liasuic l ' iiu i])le in the Novel. Chairman of the Departnieiu of Mathematics and the . lbcrt Baldwin Dodd Professor of Math- ematics since 1953. . i.bi Ri V. It CKi r joined the facullv in 1933 after receiving liis Ph.D. from the Piincetou Graduate School. During the .Second Woi Id War he was associate director of the Fire Control Research Gmup at I ' rinietoti. .Vssociated with several national mathematical oiganiia- tions. Dr. Tucker served as picsident of the Princeton chapter of the .American . ssociation of University Professors. Lmi.i K WiKiii. ,1 MKinbii nl ilu- facultv since I ' .lliT .nid Ch.iiiman ol the Depaitmeiu of I ' hiliisojiliv since I!I52, specializes in epistemology and conteuipoiaiy pliil iso])hv. He has written extensively on the history of philosophy and was co-author of the college text. .1 History of l ' liiliis(iph . versatile educator, Dr. Wood taught advanced malhem,iti(s inidci the Armed Forces training piograin during World War II.

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1)1. (.KI(.OK l SU S, I ' ldllSSdl (ll l ' llil(iv(i|)liy siiuo li) !. ' ). is priiiKiiilv iiiuusltil ill deck phi- losophy and philosopln ol icligioii. I ' ornicr eflilor of ihc I ' liilosoltliicol Review niul ihc aulhor of llie hook. Clirisliaii Failli ami Deiiionarw lie is a past CJiairiniin of ihc Society for the Siiuleiit of Aniiciit l ' hiliis(iph . I ' rofcssor ' hislos has held fellowships tioiii Ihe {.iii;geidieini Foiiiidalioii. the Xalional Coiiiuil of Religion in Higher IdiKalion. and the Social Researdi Coniuil. Popular teadiei and scholar. Assistant Professor of Oiiental Studies Jamis KF [TZt:cK received his li, . iiiaoiiii eiiin laiiile ill two iindergiadiiate years at .Mimicsota. A specialist in Islamic intellectual hisloiv and (In isliaii-Islatiiic (onlaits. he has trav- eled eMensixelv doing lesearih in Africa and Asia. most recenth spending se eial months in F-g pt preparing a loillKoming hook. The Classes of 1957 and 19. K haie voted l)i. kiii eik laxorite pre- ceptor. Piofcssoi Gk)R(.i r. riio. i. s was called to Princeton in 1910 to inaiigiirale a program of instruc- tion ill leligions thought. Dr. Thomas, presently the Pyne Pro- fessor, has expanded this program into a department which offers both graduate and nndergiaduate programs of simh. . moiig the for- mer Rhodes Scholar ' s works arc Cluisliiui l-.lhics and Moral I ' lii- losojyliy and The ' italil of the Clnisliaii Tratlilton. Dr. Di ' RANr V. Robirison. Jr., Associate Professor of I ' .iiglish, whose interests lie in .Medieval culture, teaches an undergraduate (ouise on Chaucer. Ihrongh (hancer. Pro- fessor Rohertson inlrodiites the stu- dent to Middle . ge living and thinking. His interprelalions are challenging those of Haivaid Pio- fcssor Kitlieilge, long the standard tor Chaucerian scholars. EDW. RI) DlIDI.FY Hl ' MI. JOIIN.SON. Associate Professor of F.nglish. gratl- tiated fioin Priiuelon in I9!il. vasa memher of Phi Beta Kappa, and later hetanie a Rhodes Scholar. As the Philip I ' reneau Preceptor from 1950 to 1952. Dr. (ohusoii received leave, enabling him to concentrate on background reading in Mexican psycliolog) ' and anthropology. He is now engaged in a study of the relationships between literature and ideas in Xiitorian Kngland.