Word: goheen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Goheen has had little time to develop as a scholar, since much of his post-Ph.D time has been spent in administrating the national Woodrow Wilson Fellowships. A book he published about four years ago was described by one colleague as "small but significant" in the field of Greek literary criticism. He has, according to one friend, a broad interest in classicial culture as it fits into the traditions of the West...
...travels for the Woodrow Wilson Fellowships program, Goheen has met with university leaders across the country, so his academic orientation has not been limited solely to Princeton. Faculty members particularly note his physical fitness as an important qualification...
...family man in the real sense of the word--four girls, two boys--Goheen will be reluctant to give up the obscurity of his faculty home for the President's House. He will also miss the challenge of personal scholarship, which friends say he will most certainly be fored to give up. But it was his driving ambition and potential in both scholarship and administration that nailed him the post, and after all, as retiring President Dodds pointed out in his announcement, "divine discontent yields results...
PRINCETON, N.J., Dec. 7--Robert F. Goheen, 37-year old assistant professor of Classics, today was named president of Princeton University...
...Goheen, the father of six children, is a through Princeton man, though officials dismissed his Princeton heritage as "a very minor consideration" in his selection. After graduating in 1936 from Lawrenceville School, five miles south of here, he attended the University as an undergraduate, winning an award for "highest general distinction...