Ivy & Jets

At Princeton, the graceful ivy of the liberal arts grows as green as at any school in the land. But the ivy has not blinded Princeton to the importance of such rough & tumble subjects as aerodynamics and supersonics. Since World War II, somewhat to the distress of oldtimers in sedate and leafy Princeton, N.J., the university has been busy with basic research in such noisy things as rockets and ramjet engines for military aircraft. This week, with the U.S. defense effort in mind, Princeton proudly announced that it was plunging even deeper into the raucous physical sciences.

Said President Harold W. Dodds: at a cost to Princeton of about $1,500,000, the university is taking over the 800-acre nearby property of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (which has moved out) to expand its work in "helicopter research, flight control, supersonics and rocket development, chemical kinetics, metallurgy and other sciences." Name of the university's newest division (in honor of the first Secretary of Defense, a Princeton man of the class of '15): the James Forrestal Research Center.

Princeton promised to be less quiet than ever, but oldtimers had one consolation: the ram-jets would now be two miles away, on the far side of Lake Carnegie.

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