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Princeton, N. J., May 16--John Grier Hibben, president of Princeton from 1912 to 1932, was killed in an automobile accident at 4.30 o'clock this afternoon near Woodbridge, New Jersey, while driving with his wife. Ex-president Hibben died en route to the Rahway General Hospital, where Mrs. Hibben is in a serious condition. The car which was being driven by Hibben, swerved into the path of westbound traffic, colliding with a truck of the Middlesex Beverage Company driven by Peter Seilia. Seilia is being held for manslaughter...
...Buchman and his 59 Group workers were well started on a great U. S. push. It had begun with a meeting in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, a luncheon to the Press, a ten-day house party at Briarcliff Manor. To anyone who recalled how that stalwart Presbyterian John Grier Hibben drove Buchmanism off the Princeton campus in disgrace for over-zealous proselytizing in 1926, the extraordinary eminence of the Waldorf meeting's sponsors would have been a surprise. On the reception committee were not only such conservative and ultra-socialite names as Mr. & Mrs. Frederic William Rhinelander...
...college is the quotient of its tradition divided into its student body and Princeton's tradition was taking a turn. Dr. John Grier Hibben, the gentle scholar who succeeded strenuously scholarly Woodrow Wilson in 1912, had retired. Into his place, part-time and ad interim, was coming a figure as interesting in the traditional academic scene as is onetime Morgan Partner Thomas Sovereign Gates who took charge of Pennsylvania's big, down-at-heel University two years ago. From its board of trustees Princeton had drafted the lumbering, plainspoken, understanding head of the country's second biggest life insurance company?...
...John Grier Hibben, retired president of Princeton University, accepted chairmanship of the Motion Picture Research Council...
...John Grier Hibben, Princeton's retiring president LL.D...