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...Vassar do affiliate, six of the "seven sisters" will have found brothers-of a sort.* As it happens, one of the few major men's schools that are not considering coeducation is Princeton. There, however, only 14% of the undergraduates prefer the all-male environment and President Robert Goheen says that he has no objections to Princeton's going coed-if someone will donate the $80 million he figures it would take to start a high-quality women's branch...
...hundreds of other authors, including George Santayana, Edith Wharton, Rudyard Kipling and that bright young man Hemingway. Last week Charles Scribner Jr. announced that his firm was donating the archives of its 121 years in the business to Princeton University. As a first installment, he gave Princeton President Robert Goheen the Fitzgerald file, including 468 letters and 1,248 other documents...
...gave these millions? Speculation is divided, but among those mentioned most frequently are Campbell Soup, the Duponts, Bernard Baruch, and, perhaps less seriously, the C.I.A. Whoever it was, gossip has it that Princeton's president Robert Goheen convinced the anonymous donor to throw all his loot into one pile rather than spread it around. There are those who contend "Firm X" is still watching closely over the Woodrow Wilson School's progress...
...University could use financial pressure in some of those areas or it could simply forbid students to join clubs altogether and institute something like Harvard's House system. Or it could publicly express its distaste for the present system. But it won't. And the reason, as Goheen hints, is financial...
...Goheen tried to change the system, alumni would most certainly cut back their gifts to the University. The "Alumni Inertial Guidance System," which Altman talks about, inhibits the administration's action. Goheen won't act because he is afraid the University will be ruined. And he is probably right...