Word: goheen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Goheen has at last shown the way. "God and Man at Princeton" is indicative of an inspired program which emanates from Rome, as anti-American as anything coming out of Communist Russia...
...Christian pragmatist, I am disgusted by the action of President Goheen and his trustees against Father Halton. It reminds me of the mama's boys who won't play unless they can make the rules. Because Father Halton acts as if free speech means free speech, he has been ruled out of bounds. Rah! Rah! Tiger! Excuse it please, we mean Tabby...
...action left Halton as director of the Aquinas Foundation, a Roman Catholic student organization, but canceled his privileges to use university facilities. The university's decision, insisted Goheen, "was not an issue of academic freedom." Said he: "Under claims of advancing the pursuit of truth, [Father Halton] has resorted to irresponsible attacks upon the intellectual integrity of faculty members. For tactics of this sort, no university devoted to freedom of rational inquiry and debate need make a home...
...After Goheen's action, quick support for Halton came from Trenton Bishop George W. Ahr, who said he will leave the chaplain at Princeton "for the present," declared that the key issue in the dispute is "the right of a priest charged with the spiritual care of Catholic students in a secular university to speak out in defense of the faith and morals of those committed to his care." Added Halton: "The teaching of some Princeton professors has done and is doing graver disservice to the religious and moral traditions of American democracy than all the writings of Karl...
...week's end President Goheen emphasized that the university has not broken with Roman Catholicism, that it still recognizes the Aquinas Foundation. Presbyterian Goheen (who is married to a Catholic, and whose six children are being raised as Catholics) used an analogy from international diplomacy to explain Princeton's stand: "The university has withdrawn only the recognition of an individual. In the international field, this compares with a government declaring an individual persona non grata, but continuing to recognize the embassy...