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Princeton's Prexy Sir: I did a double take when I read about "Princeton's Robert F. Cohen" [Oct. 2]. Either ivied walls will come tumbling down or the name should be Goheen...
...annual pool of young Negroes who are prepared to meet the educational standards of universities like Princeton is depressingly small," said Princeton President Robert F. Goheen, 44, in an interview on New York's WABC-TV. "And because there are so few, the competition among universities to enroll them is, nowadays, intense." More intense than the competition to get good football players? "Much more intense. There are literally thousands of well-qualified football players to divide up among first-rate colleges. In comparison, there are only a handful of qualified Negroes. It is these whom we are really...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Young Democrats invited Wallace to speak there, got a ruling of "no objection" from President Nathan M. Pusey. When the Brown University Daily Herald also invited Wallace, President Barnaby Keeney said that Brown is open to all speakers-"Communists, fascists, racists and bigots." Princeton's Robert Goheen sanctioned a student invitation to Mississippi's Governor Ross Barnett. "Untimely and ill-considered," he said, but free inquiry is "pivotal to the very idea of a university...
Segregationist attempts to crack the solid North will not rest solely on Wallace's shoulders, however. In Princeton, the Whig-Cliosophic Society announced that Mississippi Governor Ross R. Barnett has accepted an invitation to speak Oct. 1. President Robert F. Goheen called the invitation "untimely and ill considered" and said it did not imply endorsement by the university of Barnett's views and actions...
ROBERT FRANCIS GOHEEN, president...