Word: grier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...animal-loving actress, read about the fight she was in New Haven lecturing to Yale students. Instead of telling them about modern drama she urged them to write letters of protest to New Jersey authorities. Many gallantly complied, including Professor William Lyon Phelps. Other letters came from President Jonn Grier Hibben of Princeton University; the Lord's Day Alliance, the Woman's National Sabbath Alliance, the Humane Society of New York, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals...
...although California's energetic Sproul or Chicago's youthful Hutchins or Columbia's voluble Butler might go out to have a word with the football team, it is almost unknown for Princeton's quiet, academic Dr. John Grier Hibben to do so. What he told the varsity squad was simple. He said that the unprecedented series of defeats which Princeton has suffered this fall (from Brown, Cornell, Navy) indicated that Princeton had hit bottom. Logically he prophesied that in the remaining games (with Chicago, Lehigh, Yale) the team was bound to do better. When...
...sister of Representative Franklin William Fort? stumpspoke in the interests of their men. Candidate Frelinghuysen soon lost public interest, but the contest?gentlemanly and distinguished?between Dry Mr. Fort and Wet Mr. Morrow drew national attention. Yale's Professor Irving Fisher campaigned for Mr. Fort, Princeton's President John Grier Hibben spoke for Mr. Morrow. Beneath the high-toned surface, however, Dry leaders and Republican machine bosses, upset by the diversity of major candidates (one John A. Kelly also ran), battled for their political lives. The Anti-Saloon League, realizing that Candidate Morrow's reputation, coupled with his clearcut...
President Lowell and President John Grier Hibben of Princeton were among the most prominent guests of honor at the inauguration of Dr. Karl Taylor Compton, eminent physicist and educator, as President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at Eastman Court on the Charles River Campus yesterday afternoon. President Lowell spoke briefly at the exercises, stressing the pioneer work done by M. I. T. in the field of technical education, and the public service it has rendered. President Hibben brought a welcome from Princeton, where Dr. Compton had served on the faculty prior to his elevation to his present post...
Another institution that some Princetonians have long awaited came into existence last week. President John Grier Hibben, in the presence of 1,100 members of the Alumni Association and faculty, accepted from Architect David K. Este Fisher Jr. the keys to the new McCarter Theatre, with the same grace and dignity which he exhibited upon the occasion of the dedication of the $2,000,000 chapel 2 years...