Word: goheen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...higher education. It seems unfortunate that such a forward step should be the occasion of doubt--doubt concerning the responsibility of our institutions of higher education, and doubt concerning the loyalty of those they seek to help along the road to greater service to their country. Robert F. Goheen, President...
This provision, the result of a floor amendment by Senator Mundt passed in the adjournment rush of last August, has occasioned critical letters by Presidents Pusey, Griswold and Goheen along with protests from Bates, Colby and Bowdoin. Support for repeal of the oath has come from the American Association of University Professors and the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, Arthur S. Flemming. Unfortunately the chairman of the appropriate House committee, Graham Barden, has announced his firm opposition to repeal of the loyalty oath...
...Goheen shares to an extent Professor Smith's concern with anti-intellectualism in the clubs. The clubs, he says, "have not done anything to advance the intellectual life of the University." He "would welcome a larger intellectual concern" on their part, but does not feel that they have been a "drag on intellectual life...
...Goheen and most other observers consider the first possibility more likely. They point out, quite correctly, that the standards of Princeton clubs are very much unlike those of their Harvard counterparts. Ivy, Cottage and other top eating clubs do not, they say "have the same membership as Porcellian or AD." This is quite true; the social standards for membership in a "Big Five" club at Princeton depend not on the sins of the fathers, but on the sins of the sons. Thus, the son of a railroad worker--if he has the social virtues, the "Cocktail Soul"--can be eagerly...
...Goheen feels that, far from letting some clubs fold and allowing much of the student body to desert the club system, Prospect Street will accomodate the more academically-orientated atmosphere of the New Princeton. He sees "hopeful signs of the clubs' trying to offer some of the quasi-academic virtues of the Quad system." The next few years, as Wilson Lodge and the Quad grow, will determine the accuracy of Goheen's prediction...