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ROBERT F. GOHEEN, Princeton president-elect, will be in Cambridge through Friday studying the Harvard House system...
...Presbyterian doctor-missionary, Goheen grew up in India, got his first taste of U.S. education when he entered Lawrenceville as a junior in 1934. Two years later, dropping him off at Princeton, his parents told his freshman adviser: "We've got. to return to India. Please look after this boy." Little care was needed. Goheen made both the varsity soccer team and Phi Beta Kappa. After a year of graduate study, he carried the habit of success into the Army, rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel in the Ist Cavalry Division in the Pacific...
...doubtful about returning to the academic life. But his fatherly former freshman adviser, Chairman Whitney Oates of the classics department, had no intention of letting Goheen out of Princeton's sight. He saw to it that his former student received one of the first four Woodrow Wilson Fellowships designed to attract young talent into teaching. In 1948, Goheen got his Ph.D., settled back into the pleasant routine of faculty life...
...writers' cramp became universal among his students. In 1951 he published his Imagery of Sophocles' Antigone, which, in bringing the techniques of 20th century literary criticism to classical scholarship, is considered by his colleagues to be something of a scholarly "roadbreaker." But beyond his teaching and research, Goheen retained his one-of-the-boys quality-the amiable father of six children, the Sunday afternoon coach of a small boys' football team, the dufferish but genial companion on the golf links...
Last week, in view of the many big names (e.g., Adlai Stevenson) that rumor had bandied about as possible successors to Dodds, Goheen was as startled as anyone over "this elevation to sudden eminence." But like Harvard and Yale before it, Princeton had dipped into obscurity and pulled out a plum. "He is," says Classicist Oates of Goheen. "one of the ablest men in the whole damn teaching profession...