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...Princeton was shaken to the roots of its foundations last week by a faculty decision to bar smoking from lecture halls and classrooms. President Robert F. Goheen noted that "the restrictions proposed merely match rules long in force at Yale and Harvard," but some students and faculty refused to be consoled...
Wilbur S. Howell, clerk of the faculty, emphasized that the intent of the decision was not to stop smoking "as a moral evil," but that it was "a blunt matter of dollars and cents." President Goheen said in his recommendation to the faculty that a total of $16,700 could be saved annually--$7700 for cleaning costs and $9000 for sanding and refinishing...
Your quotation from President Goheen's address at Princeton [in which he said "the cheap and tawdry are glorified over achievements of solid worth"] is one demanding grave and immediate consideration. It is indeed a thing of "gloom, doom and disdain" when we hear a scholar today observe foibles recognized some half a century ago by the scholar William James...
...President A. Whitney Griswold, handing Black an LL.D.: "With soft-spoken charm, you have circled the globe to develop the industry and agriculture of less fortunate peoples." Next day Banker Black, smiling broadly, turned up in Princeton. Presenting Black with his second LL.D., Princeton's President Robert F. Goheen cited him as "a native Georgian still engaged in reconstruction, who emerged from the Athens of his native state to lend quietly effective assistance to the rebirth of those conditions of order and growth of which the ancient republic of Athens stands as a perpetual reminder." Two days later, Eugene...
...would do well to forget that $600-a-month job offer and bury himself as far back in the library stacks as he can squirm. The mood was one of gloom, doom, and disdain for the U.S. and the road it is traveling: ¶ Princeton University President Robert F. Goheen, baccalaureate address: "Near and far the cheap and tawdry are glorified over achievements of solid worth; opiates of half-truth are seized in preference to realities of fact and need . . . We find ourselves as a nation on the defensive and as a people seemingly paralyzed in self-indulgence...