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...with the boys at the Quadrangle Club, Robert Francis Goheen (rhymes with so keen) would hardly seem to be more than a typical Ivy-League graduate student. He has the uniform crew cut, usually wears the standard tweed jacket. But at 37, Assistant Professor Goheen is a first-rate classicist who has won the devotion of his students and the respect of his elders. Last week, after more than a year's search for a successor to retiring President Harold W. Dodds, the trustees of Princeton decided that Goheen was just their...
...many big names (e.g., Adlai Stevenson) that rumor had bandied about as possible successors to Dodds, Goheen was as startled as anyone over "this elevation to sudden eminence." But like Harvard and Yale before it, Princeton had dipped into obscurity and pulled out a plum. "He is," says Classicist Oates of Goheen. "one of the ablest men in the whole damn teaching profession...
...selection of a classicist was significant, some observers felt, because it shows that Princeton--which has a large proportion of undergraduates concentrating in engineering--does not plan to downgrade the Humanities...
President Pusey, on learning of Goheen's selection, commented: "I am delighted to welcome a fellow classicist to the circle of Ivy Group presidents. It will be a real pleasure to work with Mr. Goheen...
...Loeb University Professorship, is as yet unfilled. The retirements of Nobel prize physicist P. W. Bridgman '04 and of lawyer Zechariah Chafee, Jr. leaves two more chairs vacant. Holding the five remaining chairs are theologian Paul Tillich, economist Sumner H. Slichter, Middle East authority Sir Hamilton A.R. Gibb, classicist Werner W. Jaeger, and language expert I.A. Richards