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

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PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRINCETON, NEW IERSEY PRESIDENT,S xzooM May 1, 1961 To the Class of 1962: This 83d edition of the Bric-a-Brac records, through a series of telling glimpses, much of the wide variety of life and activity that marks current-day Princeton. As such this Bric has a great deal more than nostalgia to offer its readers. -- No individual can sample, during his undergraduate years, more than a relatively small part of all that Princeton offers. Even the most perceptive can catch, while in course, no more than a fraction of the sweep and flow of vital activity -- of intellectual searching and testing -- which characterizes the various departments of instruction and extends their outreach widely into the world of our times. The University as a community fosters the full life and embraces therefore for its students the values of play as well as of study, of self- chosen extracurricular as well as curricular pursuits. But at the center is a commitment to the life of the mind, in the free pursuit of truth, for the benefit of mankind. And it is here that a university exercises its most indispensable role in times of world-wide strain and tension such as these -- namely, by drawing on the best of the past to push forward our individual and collective capacities for forward looking and responsible action in a future where so much is unknown. This large and essential view is mirrored throughout the Bric-a-Brac and as such it provides a valued service to the University and to its readers I am therefore most happy at this opportunity to commend the editors of this volume of the Bric, and to recommend their product to all who may pause to peruse this-page. Sincerely,

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RO THE PRESIDENT BERT FRANCIS GOHEEN, PH.D