Word: grier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President John Grier Hibben...
...great Charles William Eliot and its present President Abbott Lawrence Lowell, Yale's late great Arthur Twining Hadley, President Emeritus William Frederick Slocum of Colorado College, President Rush Rhees of the University of Rochester. Sir Robert Alexander Falconer of the University of Toronto. Princeton's Dr. John Grier Hibben has been president since November 1930. His turn ended last week. Elected to take the next turn was twinkling, goat-bearded President William Allan Neilson of Smith College. Only one meeting a year will keep Dr. Neilson from his accustomed activities, which have included writing scholarly books on Shakespeare...
...pupils free. Last week, on "The Old Man's" 57th birthday, a testimonial dinner was given for him at the Hotel Commodore in Manhattan. Joined to honor him were the Church (Presiding Bishop James DeWolf Perry of the Protestant Episcopal Church), the Universities (Dean Christian Gauss, representing President John Grier Hibben of Princeton), Kent alumni, Kent parents & friends (including Vice President Charles W. Appleton of General Electric Co., President Frederick Paul Keppel of Carnegie Corp.). Many a guest was too old to have known, as a school boy, Father Sill's influence. But all joined, as the dinner announcement stated...
...opposition arose: from Dean West of the Graduate School, who feared that development of the Wilson plan would distract interest from his own school; from ex-President Grover Cleveland, on the Graduate School trustee committee and friend of Dean West; from Dr. Henry van Dyke; from Professor John Grier Hibben, upon whose support Wilson had counted. Outside of Princeton, however, the plan was received with enthusiasm. Press, public, many an alumnus hailed it. Said Harvard's Charles Francis Adams (now U. S. Secretary of the Navy): "Your theory of 'quads' seems to me more nearly to meet existing college requirements...
Those who know Princeton's President John Grier Hibben are often surprised by such sudden sallies from his apparently innocent mind. He exemplifies, certainly, the charming, scholarly type of college president rather than the boisterous and administrative. For this reason he was chosen, as a compromise candidate, after Princeton trustees had been deadlocked for two years in trying to elect a successor to the provocative Woodrow Wilson. But Dr. Hibben took up the reins discarded by that active dreamer with no lack of confidence and soon was working out his own dreams of a university...