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Those who know Princeton's President John Grier Hibben are often surprised by such sudden sallies from his apparently innocent mind. He exemplifies, certainly, the charming, scholarly type of college president rather than the boisterous and administrative. For this reason he was chosen, as a compromise candidate, after Princeton trustees had been deadlocked for two years in trying to elect a successor to the provocative Woodrow Wilson. But Dr. Hibben took up the reins discarded by that active dreamer with no lack of confidence and soon was working out his own dreams of a university...
...which have come true include: 1) limited enrolment; 2) the four-course system by which upper-class students choose two major courses and two minor, and must stand high in these; 3) increase in size and beauty of the physical plant and strengthening of the faculty. But, withal, President Hibben has been most notable for his general and tireless insistence on the intellectual side of the University...
...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...
...President Hibben's interest in the university's athletic fortunes pleased robust Princeton alumni, the subsequent events of the evening must have been even more heartening for, excited by a football rally, the undergraduates put on a display of Real Old Princeton Enthusiasm. About 1,500 of the student body started bonfires after the meeting, tossed some of their room fixtures on the blaze, then scoured the town for combustibles. The general disorder culminated in minor riot, with freshmen battling sophomores for the privilege of entering Renwick's, an icecream parlor forbidden them. Traffic was blocked...