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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...
...comforted if not overjoyed by their trustees' decision. That the presidency of Princeton should be so hard to fill seemed an equivocal commentary on the university. But that so dependable a person as "Ed" Duffield would be in charge insured against any backsliding of the institution with Dr. Hibben gone. The university's immediate problems are financial and finance is his forte. His shoulders are broad enough to carry any unpleasantness that may arise from Princeton's necessary retrenchments. Though not primarily a scholar, Acting-President Duffield received both B.A. and M.A. degrees from Princeton...
...While the story of a certain psychiatrist and his entrance into heaven is going the rounds, we should like to report an observation made at the New York alumni dinner to President Hibben. After the last of those many words of tribute to Dr. Hibben had been spoken, "Lamb" Heyniger, divested of his dinner coat, jumped upon a table in the middle of the huge ballroom and called for three stanzas of "Old Nassau." The first stanza went finely, but along in the middle of the second-at that place where there is always a bit of uncertainty...
...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...
Princeton University telephoned to Herbert ("Fritz") Crisler, athletic director at the University of Minnesota, to offer him the job of coaching Princeton's football teams. "I'll be glad to accept," said Director Crisler to President Hibben, "if you'll put it in writing...