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

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If the Administ izition ever decided to charge undergraduates admission to lectures, they would probably get away with it in the courses lectured by Professor JOHN RUPERT MARTIN of the Art Department. There are only one or two lecturers on the Princeton faculty with an equal lecturing ability. His course, European Painting from 1600 to 1800 , though considered dith- cult, has become extremely popular. Whether he is lecturing 0n the early Italian Baroque, his own field of interest, or the predominantly French rococo style, he holds undergraduate interest with lectures which manage to explain the purely technical aspects of painting without becoming dry or 1111- interesting. At present he is also en- gaged ill finishing up a study Of Anni- It is a Yale treat to fmd a professor who has the qualities of a bale Carraccils FFOHdBSi Gallery. flue scholar and also those of an accomplished after-dinner speaker. Such a man is Associate Professor of English RICHARD LUDWIG, an outstanding student of American literature and Director of Princetoxfs Special Program in the Humanities. Professor Ludwig has served as the editor of several collections of works of American writers. In his undergraduate courses he manages to combine scholarly insight with a generous sprinkling 0!? humorous anecdotes. In his sophomore coursee Main Curv rents of American Literntlli'elleProfessor Ludwig ties the reading done by his students into the mainstream of American literary development by giving biographical sketches of authors and descriptions of major movements and trends. ERIC SJijQVIST, Professor of Classical Archeology, has been play- ing a dual role Lit Princeton since 1953. Along with his teaching duties, Professor Sjt'iqvist, in conjunction with Professor Richard Stillwcll, has been directing the Princeton Archeological expedi- tion to Sicily. This latter task is an especially familiar one for Professor Sjbqvist, who served in a similar capacity for a Swedish expedition. In the present project it is hoped that by tracing the development of a typical Greek town from the sixth to the second century B. C., new light will be shed on the Hellenistic civilization. Professor Sjiiqvist is one of the last of a disappearing group, the classical archeologists. In appraising his work, he has this to say: tiExcavations are the principal means of reconstructing and reinterpreting the past. Without them, archeology and scholarship in the art, history, and language of antiquity would become unproductive, stereotyped, and superficial. DR. RENSSELAER W. LEE, Chairman of the Department of Art and Archaeology, has recently returned from a trip to Sweden, where he attended the Union Academique Internationale, a council devoted to all aspects of the humanities. A member of many national Fine arts committees, he is :1 specialist in the history of painting in Europe from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. He teaches a giztduzite course in Baroque theory and also the popular undergraduate course, uItalian Painters of the Renaissance. Combining a study of literature and painting, Professor Lee is currently writing a book concerning the influence of the Italian poet, Torquato Tasso, on the history of painting. 8? want! :In

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Professor ARTHUR MENDEL, Chairman of the Music Department, devotes much of his time to musical organizations outside of Princeton. Among his other achievements, he has been a member of the Executive Board of the American Musicological Society, and for many years was conductor of the Cantata Singers of New York. He is widely renowned as an expert on the music of Bach. Presently he is editing choral works for the Neue Bach-Ausgabc. In his edited text Professor Mendel tries to capture the true quality of the music as determined by research into its original sources. He is also the co-editor of the widely known Bach Reader, a major contribution to the academic musical world. Although he is chiefly interested in Bach, Professor Mendel does devote some time to the study of Renaissance music. When one enters Artist in Residence I'IYDE SOLOMON,S studio in the tower of Pyne Administration, he finds himself. surrounded by symphonies oi dazzling color. Large canvases lean against the wall covered with beautiful compositions of bright pigments arranged so that no color, no matter how bright, ever clashes with its neighbor; everything blends into the unified artistic whole. After some moments of study, the viewer begins to project him- self: into the paintings and they seem to attain a personal meaning for him. Only later does the visitor notice the quiet unassuming man who is the creator of these works. Hyde Solomon seems to prefer standing back, not: saying much, so that his paintings can speak for him. Technically he is somewhere between abstract impressionism and expt'e'sionism. Best known for his landscape abstractions, his major exhibition this year will be at Poindexter Gallery in New York. Professor ROBERT W. McLAUGHLIN, JIL, Director of the School olf Architecture, is a pensive, deliberate man when speaking of his profession. He immediately strikes one as being very perceptive, for he feels that an architect should try to understand peopl ' and their problems in order to exemplify their specific needs in his work. Professor Mc- I,,aughlin has worked on numerous archi- tectural projects, including the construction of 30,000 housing units in New York City, since he received his MFA. from Princeton in 1926. Professor McLaughlin is also an avid areheologist and has spent much of his time in architectural investigations in Latin America. Presently, Professor McLaughlin is planning to publish a book, Architect, which deals with the development and life of an architect. JOSEPH BROWN has the somewhat unique distinction of being a member of two apparently unrelated University DepartmentstAssociate Professor of Sculpture in the School of Architecture and Instructor in Physical Education and Athletics. Professor Brown is one of the natiotfs outstanding sculptors and has recently returned from a trip through Europe and Asia sponsored by the State Department. While on the trip he sculptured statues and busts of numerous foreign athletes and statesmen. His ability as a sculptor has long been recognized and was almost innate as, without the benefit of a single lesson, he produced three figures of boxers and had all three pieces accepted for exhibit by the Pennsyl- vania Academy of Fine Arts. He later took lessons from the late great sculptor R. Tait McKenzie and evolved techniques that have won for him many national awards, including the National Academy of Designls Barnett Prize for Sculptors. Besides portraying athletes, Professor Brown has put his background as a protessional boxer to good use coaching boxing at Princeton.

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t-y'HIM 5.73 r ' . waht'ni'r'i Entering :1 large, book-linetl oihce in Dickinson Hail, one may find Professor H. iV. VICTOR LANCE helping 11 German exchange student with a college problem, preparing an article for a scholarly magazine, or perhaps reading about his favorite aca- demic subject, the German poet-author Goethe. Chairman of Princetonfs Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures since its formation in 1958, Professor Lnnge is a specialist in Goethe and modern German literature. A modest and unpre- tentious scholar, he teaches two upperclass courses on Goethe and also the popular freshman course, uEuropean Fiction . Author of several books on German literature, Professor Lange returned to his native land last summer to lecture on modern criticism at the Free University of Berlin. Upon meeting Professor E. D. SULLIVAN, the Chairman of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, one is struck by the immense vigor with which he acts. Leaning over a desk covered with books and papers, he will periodically accentuate a point in his conversation with quick gestures or remarks, precisely illustrating his point. For Professor Sullivan the most challenging problems are the insoluble ones such as those of providing American students with the background to understand a foreign culture and achieving a coalescence of: this knowledge in their departmental studies. Professor Sullivan compares his aims to those of a sociologist or an economist, but while the latter are chiefly quantitative, he attempts to give his students :1 qualitative viewpoint of foreign cultures through literature. A graduate of Princeton and a member of the faculty since 1932, Professor RAYMOND 1-1. WILLts is engaged in the study oi D011 Alvaro de Luna, a nobleman and political favorite of the king in fifteenth century Spain. Eventually he plans to write a book on this curious historical figure. His main interests lie in Medieval Spanish literature, Cervantes, and the modern noveL Combining a scholarly attitude and a personal warmth, Professor Willis cnlivens his course material with humorous and interesting anecdotes drawn from his own experiences and his seemingly inexhaustible knowl- edge of Spanish culture. Professor Willis, Emory L. Ford Professor of Spanish Literature, is an ardent linguist and is currently a member of the Com- mittee for Linguistics in Princeton. DR. IRA O. WADE, John N. Woodhull Professor of Modern Languages, is personally responsible for the success of the Special Program in European Civilization of which he is Director. Geninl and unassuming. Dr. Wade has become a favorite lecturer in his threC decades at Princeton. His courses in European literature. especially From Humanism to Existentialism, are among the most popular on campus. Dr. Wade is an outstanding authority on Voltaire and eighteenth century French philosophy. Author of numerous books on these subjects, he is currently preparing two manu- scripts, one of Voltaire and his philosophical background, and another on the philosophy of the Enlightenment.