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

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Professor E. HARRIS HARBlsoN, of the Department of History, is known to his 'tudents as 11 lucid and incisive lecturer and a patient, opcxi-mintletl preceptor. His genius for understate- ment is only one of the rhetorical talents that he displays in his course, Renaissance and Reformation. A pre-emincnt scholar in the field of early European history, Professor Hzn'bisou is currently engaged in :1 monumental study of the Reformation. His interest in the development; of: the Christian interpretation of history has led him to lecture extensively on this subject outside the University. Professor Harbison is the author of several published works, the most recent of which is :1 textbook, The Course of Civilization. DAVID H. DONALD joined Princeton Universny's Department 01 History in the fall of 1960, bringing with him many honors. He had already been Ll full professor for three years at Columbia University, had taught 11 course in American history zit Oxford, und was the author of numerous books 011 the Civil War and Reconstruction. A pi'ulilic writer, Professor Donald won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for biography for his first volume 01' Charles Stunner am! the Coming of HIL- Civil War which was published in 1960. In addition to this he has just finished TIN: Civil War and Reconstruction, which will 21150 come out in an abbreviated form as Tim Divided Union. At present Professor Donald is engaged in writing the second volume 011 Charles Sumner :mtl, lllOllg with his wife, is working on the first two of eighteen volumes of the papers of Charles Francis Adams, the son of Jnhn Quincy Adams. This last project is to bc putt 013 the one hundred volume work 011 the Adams' family papers to bc puly lished by the Harvard University Press. Professor Mitmtis B. JANSEN 1113 of the History Department is :1 specialist on the Far East. In 1959 he was appointed to the Princeton faculty to fill the serious gap that had developed in the study of the histories of Oriental societies. Professor Jansen gives a year-long survey course on the history of Japan, China, and India which serves the same purpose as Princetonls long- established survey course in western history. This course first made possible the inclusion of the study of East Asia in the pro- grams of undergraduates who did not vzmt to become specialists in the held. Last year, on a grant from the Carnegie Corporation, Professor Jansen traveled again to the Far East and especially to India, the country with which he was least fami1iztr. In intel- lectual circles, Mr. Jansen is best known for his book The japancse and Sun Yat-sen which points out the interesting cooperation between the founder of the Kuomintang Party and the world power which later would he the most influential in destroying that Party. Assistant Dean of the ColIcge, RICHARD D. CIIALLENER is interested in dip10macy. As Associate Professor of History, he is writing a book about the military aspects of American diplomacy before 1Vorld War One. His main areas of interest are American foreign policy and military history, and in his present work, he is attempting to trace the development of cooperation between our military and diplomatic services. He is primarily concerned with the period between 1900 and 19111, for during that period the military began to be consulted, and its influence was felt upon our diplomacy. A very busy man with :1 mountainous pile of paperwork in his administrative capacity, Professor Challcner hopes to be able to finish his study in this neglected area of United States History.

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Lewis P. Curtis LEWIS PERRY CURTIS, JR. joined. the Princeton History Depart- ment in 1959. An expert in modem British history, Dr. Curtis has studied at Yale and Oxford. Recently he has been engaged in extensive research on unionist policy in Ireland in the late nineteenth century. He also is writing several articles on the political history of modem England as well :15 teaching a history seminar on British imperialism. Dr. Curtis seems to have over- come successfully the fact that he is a Yalie, and in the classes which he conducts for a whole range of history courses, he man- ages to put across his points with a decisive hnlf-Ivy League, hultlBritish flavor. C. S. WHITAKER, JR., a lecturer in the Department of Politics, obtained his BA. from Swarthmore in 1956 and his MA. from Princeton in 1958. After six monthsi training in England, Mr. Whitaker traveled to Africa to study the political situation in northern Nigeria. Currently he is writing his doctoral dissertation on this research which he will eventually publish in book form under the title Politirs of Tradition: A Study of Continuity and C. Sylvester Whitaker 19 Social Sciences Frederick C. Shorter Change in Northern Nigeria. Having joined the Princeton faculty in 1960, Mr. Whitaker precepts several undergraduate courses in addition to advising theses and junior independent work. As a specialist in African affairs, he taught a junior seminar on Nigerian politics during the fall semester. A great traveler, Assistant Professor of Economics FREDERICK C. SHORTER has spent five of the last eight years outside the United States He is primarily interested in economic development in the countries of Southern Asia, especially Pakistan and India. Serving on the Planning Commission in Pakistan before coming to Princeton in 1959, he again worked with planning committees in Turkey and Pakistan while on leave in 1960. The whole Shorter family is interested in India. While Dr. Shorter is con- cerned with the Indian economy, Mrs. Shorter is presently writing her second childi'exfs book about India, in addition to tending to their two Indian children. Spending this year in Princeton, Professor Shorter teaches the upperclass Economics course about the Middle East and lectures the basic undergraduate maem- economtcs course.

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JOSEPH REESE STRAYER, DaytoneStockton Piofessor of History and Chairman of the Department 1941-1961, is one of this countrys most distinguished historians. In recognition of his ability as :1 lecturer, Professor Struyer was chosen fall term Witherspoon Lecturer for 1961. He gives courses in twelfth and thirteenth century European hitsory and in British constitutional history on the undergraduate and graduate levels. Professor Strayer is the author of numerous publications including The Interpretation of History and Western Europe in the Middle Ages and has contributed numerous articles to such publications as the American Historical Review, Speculum, and The Virginia Quarterly Review. At various times he has been a member of the Committees on Admissions, the Graduate School, and the Graduate Program of the Woodrow Wilson School. DR. ROBERT ROSWELL PALMER, Dodge Professor of History, is an authority on modern European history. His Age of the Democratic Revolution, a comparative constitutional history of Western Civilization at the time of the French and American Revolutions, recently won the Bancroft Prize and an award from the American Council of Learned Societies. His major work, 11 900epage History 0f the Modern World, is widely used as a college textbook throughout the country. Professor Palmer has also edited The Atlas of World History published by Rand McNally and Co. He teaches the popular undergraduate course, Revolutionary lira . Perhaps the best description of Dr. Palmer was given by the Council of Learned Societies, liProfessor Palmer will occupy an important place in the historiography of revolutions. ERIC F. GOLDMAN, Professor of History, joined the Princeton faculty in 1942 after receiving his MA. and Ph.D. degrees at johns Hopkins University. Conducting the largest and one of the most popular tlppci'clztss courses at Princeton, iiModern America , he keeps his serious, scholarly look while constantly sending the class into an uproar. In addition to teaching, he moderates the television show, iiOPCIl Mind , and writes frequent book reviews for the New York Times. A skilled author himself, Professor Goldman won Columbia Universityis Bancroft Prize for History in 1953 with his book Rendezvous with Destiny. He is presently engaged in writing a book reinterpreting the history of America since the 189015. DR. CHARLES C. GILLISPJl-i, Professor of the History of Science at Princeton University, is a teucher-scholar whose primary field is the history of scientific thought. This interest stems from his own personal experience with the interdependence of the humanities and the sciences in liberal education. Professor Gillispie has earned degrees in both science and the liberal arts: AB. in chemistry and mathematics, MA. in history and :1 P11.D. in English history. At Princeton, Dr. Gillispie has been responsible for the introduction of two courses, one of which he lectures. It is entitled, HThe History and Inlluence 013 Scientific Thought, but is better known as uHumanities 3811. This course is an intertlepztrtinental offer- ing of the Special Program in the Humanities and was planned primarily for students in the sciences and engineering. In conjunction with this course Professor Gillispie has written a book, The Edge of Objectivily, An Essay in the History of Scientihc Ideas.