Word: goheen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they pose a direct threat to academic freedom; and three, if they seek to honor someone associated with actions that, in the words of President Conant in 1934, strike "at principles fundamental to universities throughout the world." We also agree with the 1969 statement of former Princeton President Goheen in asserting that it is fundamental to the purposes of a university to contribute towards alleviating ignorance, racism, and bigotry. We believe that Charles Engelhard led his life in conflict with these essential principles...
...week's end the names became known of other candidates high on the lists. For India, contenders included Phillips Talbot, president of the Asia Society, and Robert Goheen, former president of Princeton; for Japan, Marshall Green, one of State's foremost Asian experts and a former Ambassador to Indonesia and Australia, and Arthur Hummel, a former Ambassador to Burma and Ethiopia and lately assistant secretary for East Asia and Pacific Affairs...
Keenan, John D. Baldeschwieler, professor of Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology, and Robert F. Goheen, former president of Princeton University, accepted offers last week from the Iranian Ministry of Education to serve on the board...
Princeton took a similar course. There in 1970 former president Robert F. Goheen established a Commission on the Future of the College with the general mandate to conduct a "major review of undergraduate education at Princeton." Goheen appointed Marvin Bressler, Professor of Sociology, to chair a 19-member committee of ten faculty members, six undergraduates and three administrators to deliver a "reappraisal of the entire undergraduate program in order that we may better anticipate and control the future...
...Woodrow Wilson Award-one of the highest honors that Princeton can bestow on an alumnus-went this year to the youngest recipient in history. Because, said President Robert F. Goheen, from his "determined and persistent efforts we may look forward to more safety in our mines, highways and factories, less explosive accidents in our gas pipelines, cleaner meat and poultry on our tables, and broader public representation in the management of large public corporations," the $1,500 prize was awarded to 38-year-old Ralph Nader...