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...mostly tolerant of their academic undergrounds, since, so far at least, the students have not been neglecting English 203 for the sake of LSD 1. At worst, the administrators are quietly amused by the pretensions of what they consider a passing fad of idealistic youth. Says Princeton President Robert Goheen: "It's a little ambitious to call it a college...
Yale President Kingman Brewster is almost savage in his denunciation of the draft policy that allows broadside college deferments: "It is unfair; it is undemocratic; and-worst of all-it fosters a cynical disrespect for national service and corrupts the aims of education." Princeton President Robert Francis Goheen argues that because draft calls are still relatively small, the system is "unnecessarily erratic in what it does to young men's lives. Great inequities occur which are not compensated for by any real social gain. We have enough educated manpower that just the pursuit of a Ph.D. in history, classics...
...sponsored events. A 1.6 average is equivalent to a C-,and the rule sounds reasonable enough. But is an A in "recreation" at Wayout State, say, equivalent to a D in comparative philology at Harvard? And, more important, what about the principle involved? As Princeton's President Robert Goheen put it, the Ivies do not believe that "an athletic organization should seek to determine academic policy." At last count, more than 100 other schools (out of 573 N.C.A.A. members) were supporting the Ivy stand by ignoring the N.C.A.A. rule...
Robert F. Goheen, president of Princeton and spokesman of the group of Ivy presidents, said in a written statement that the eight Ivy schools were unwilling to submit the required forms. He added that each institution would be willing to write a letter outlining its academic standards, which in general fall well within the NCAA framework...
Everett D. Barnes, president of the NCAA, said this would be sufficient. "We have discussed the matter several times," Barnes said. "There is a meeting of minds between myself and President Goheen. No form is necessary. The letter will suffice...