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President John Grier Hibben...
...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...
President Hibben of Princeton has suggested that the spirit of the universities, far from being one of depression, should be rather that of "elation" that the opportunity has come to show an understanding sense of an obligation which one would wish not to escape. The word itself, of ancient use, has persisted through the centuries to define the triumph of the soul of man over his environment. Thomas Chalmers, the great Scottish divine, in his treatise on the adaptation of external nature to the moral and intellectual constitution of man, speaks of an "elate independence of the soul." That independence...
This elation has its firm basis, as President Hibben intimated, in an understanding sense of the situation. it is not related etymologically to the more ancient word meaning elasticity, which gave Linnacus the name for a family or genus of beetles "possessing the power of springing upward from a supine position for the purpose of falling upon their feet." Elation is a state of exultant, unceasing struggle for the highest things of the human mind and soul. The colleges and universities may become centres of such "elation" amid the world's depression. New York Times...
President Hibben, in his speech at the News Banquet last night, was optimistic about the promising future of the younger generation now acquiring a college training to fit it for the coming acquisition of power in the world, and President Angel struck the same keynote in concluding his speech. Both presidents paid to the undergraduate of today a compliment which he is little accustomed to receiving, and which is cause for much gratification...