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What, then, is the primary object of a college education? "It is," says President Hibben of Princeton, "to fit each student most adequately to perform his proper functions as an essential part of the social structure in which he is to live and move and have his being." It is, is it not, to equip young men to play their full part in the life of their several communities, to give them a keener appreciation of the duties of citizenship, to enable them to contribute something of value to the well-being of their fellowmen. It teaches the obligations...
...them for the good of others. Alexander Hamilton sincerely believed in the necessity of entrusting the government only to men of education and tradition, men of the so-called aristocracy of those days. Any such conception is of course contrary to our principles of equality, but, says President Hibben, "the spirit of a true aristocracy of service should characterize all who, through the privileges of university training, have been particularly equipped in mind and in character for the duties of citizenship." The familiar phrase "noblesse oblige" implies that there is for those of superior calibre, those who have had opportunities...
...Representative Franklin William Fort? stumpspoke in the interests of their men. Candidate Frelinghuysen soon lost public interest, but the contest?gentlemanly and distinguished?between Dry Mr. Fort and Wet Mr. Morrow drew national attention. Yale's Professor Irving Fisher campaigned for Mr. Fort, Princeton's President John Grier Hibben spoke for Mr. Morrow. Beneath the high-toned surface, however, Dry leaders and Republican machine bosses, upset by the diversity of major candidates (one John A. Kelly also ran), battled for their political lives. The Anti-Saloon League, realizing that Candidate Morrow's reputation, coupled with his clearcut Wet stand (TIME...
President Lowell and President John Grier Hibben of Princeton were among the most prominent guests of honor at the inauguration of Dr. Karl Taylor Compton, eminent physicist and educator, as President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at Eastman Court on the Charles River Campus yesterday afternoon. President Lowell spoke briefly at the exercises, stressing the pioneer work done by M. I. T. in the field of technical education, and the public service it has rendered. President Hibben brought a welcome from Princeton, where Dr. Compton had served on the faculty prior to his elevation to his present post...
Consensus of opinion suggests that you keep your textbooks for sentimental reasons. President Hibben of Princeton University suggests: "Every undergraduate leaving college should take his text books with him as a reminder and record of a past chapter in his life and as a nucleus of a library...