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

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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.

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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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A native of Vienna, DR. OSKAR MORGENS'I'ERN has a distinguished record 015 service to the public in this country and abroad. The economic turmoil in Ccnttnl Europe after XVorld XVar I first attracted him to the study of economics. For several years he has directed :1 research team of economists and mathematicians at Princeton which is studying the dcfmite application of highly theoretical economics to the basic problems of the American economy. Much of the group's work is concerned with mathe muticul techniques of analysis for economic time series. While teaching and conducting research for more than thirty-years, he has written numerous important volumes and many articles in scientiiic journals. The Theory of Games and Economic Behavior, of which he was the co-uuthor, fm'mulizes and relates games of strategy to social and economic behavior. Among his varied interests is :1 special preference for French post-impressionism as exemplified by the works of Paul Cezanne. An authority in the Held of labor economics, DR. RICHARD ALLEN LESTER fIrst became interested in economics while studying under Irving Fisher at Yale. After graduating from Yale and later obtaining a Ph.D. from Princeton, Professor Lester spent sevc 111 years teaching at various universities before returning to Princeton in 1945 as an Associate Professor. Since then, Professor Lester has continued to expand his activity in labor economics by serving on several government boards, writing college text- books, and acting as an arbiter in wage disputes. He has recently written :1 book entitled The Economics of Unemployment Com- pensation which treats many policy questions of compensation. A member of the President's committee on the airline controversy and chairman of the New Jersey State Employment Security Council, Professor Lester is also an active Democrat on both the local and national levels. i -, n i m u XVILLIAM EBENSTEIN, Professor of Politics, is an authority in comparative government and modern political theory. A mem- ber of the Princeton faculty since 19-16, Professor Ebenstein is a practical political scientist who seeks to strengthen the teaching of political science by making fuller use of the other social sciences and general philosophy. Described by Princeton under- graduates as a ustudent's professor, he stresses in his course. uDemocrucy and Totalitarianism, the necessity for political wisdom and insight in handling current problems. A prolific writer, Professor Ebenstein is author of many standard college textbooks including Today's Isms and Modern Political Thought. The majority of the American population and Professor LESTER V. CHANDLER share :1 common interestemoncy. The combination of the scholarly manner of a professor and the practical approach of a banker with wide experience in the Federal Reserve System greatly enriches his popular upperclass economics course, uMoney and Banking. Often sought by government agencies and congressional subcommittees as an economic :uivisor, he is in India this year teaching at the University of Bombay. A proliiic writer, Professor Chandler has recently finished his latest book, Benjamin Strong, Central Banker, :1 biography of the renowned head of the Bank of the United States.