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John Grier Hibben, President of Princeton University, last night delivered the Godkin lecture in Sanders Theatre. Treating two subjects under the titles of "Society and the Individual" and "The Nation and the Society of Nations", the eminent educator stressed not only the duties which the individual owes to the state, and to his fellow citizens, but also the duties of the United States owed to the rest of the world, which, he felt, call for this country's joining the World Court as the "irreducible minimum of our international obligations...
After expressing his deep sensitiveness to the honor and privilege of delivering the Godkin lecture, President Hibben began the actual body of the first division of his lecture by denying the often alleged stability of our government merely because it has existed 160 years, declaring that "no form of government can be assured of permanency", for there must be a "constant renewing of its power" to adapt it to the swiftly changing conditions of our modern...
...speech delivered last night by President John Grier Hibben of Princeton University is indicative of an encouraging tendency in American thought of the present day. The general title of the Godkin Lecture, "Free Government and the Duties of Free Citizenship" is a question of interest and importance to all citizens, and one upon which public opinion is ever inquiringly active. Any light which may be cast upon the point is welcome. In President Hibben's address we find the head of one great university placing his opinions on this vital matter before the members of another university. The institutions...
President John Grier Hibben of Princeton will give the single Godkin Lecture at Sanders Theatre tonight at 8 o'clock. In this lecture he will treat "The Individual and Society" and "The Nation and the Society of Nations." However, the last subject does not refer to the League of Nations, but in a more general sense to the great world mass comprising all nations and races...
President John Grier Hibben of Princeton University will deliver a single Godkin Lecture at Harvard on Thursday, April 28. Instead of two lectures as previously announced for April 26 and 28. The lecture will take place in Sanders Theatre at 8 o'clock in the evening and will be open to the public...