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Since 71-year-old Dr. John Grier Hibben announced more than a year ago that he would retire this June as president of Princeton University at the end of 20 years' service, Princeton's board of trustees has sought vainly for a sufficiently distinguished successor. Two months ago University of Chicago's Arthur Holly Compton, Nobel Prize physicist, was reported to have declined the post (TIME, March 21). The Princeton trustees have been meeting fortnightly in an effort to agree on some one else. Last week, their quest still unsuccessful, they chose one of their own number...
...WHITE J. M. GRIER W. C. MUSICK LEWIS VINCENT...
...University of Chicago was worried about Dr. Compton for a while this winter. He is one of ten professors at Chicago who have been awarded Distinguished Service Professorships ($10,000 yearly minimum). President John Grier Hibben of Princeton is currently 70 and resigning and the Princeton trustees were pondering Dr. Compton as Dr. Hibben's successor. (Dr. Compton is one of three men who in all Princeton's history have won doctorates in physics summa cum laude. The others are Henry Norris Russell, Princeton astronomer, and Karl Taylor Compton [elder brother], president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology.) But young President...
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...