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...commercialism is a case in point. It is regrettable that these two universities have been denied the first flush of exoneration that it was Yale's good fortune to receive, but their convincing refutation of the charges which were leveled against them, the one the words of President Hibben and Coach Roper, the other a statement from Director of Athletics Bingham at Harvard, make the initial charge seem somewhat meaningless. The glow of pride that once quickened Harvard, Princeton and Yale hearts when football supremacy rested among the trio may well be transferred into vicarious satisfaction that their ethics...
...Pittsburgh; A. Krolik of Detroit. Assets in this merger total $25,000,000. Its purpose: to combat chain stores and others buying directly from the manufacturer by forming a chain of middlemen. Possible future additions to the merger: Ely & Walker of St. Louis; Carson, Pirie, Scott of Chicago; Hibben, Hollweg of Indianapolis; Perkins of Dallas...
...Princeton, N. J., a lively row was on last week. President John Grier Hibben of the University appealed to the county election board; Dean Christian Gauss called on eminent judges; students posted irate placards-all because a local election board had decided that no Princeton University undergraduate was eligible to vote in Princeton except the few whose non-college homes are there...
With President Hibben's approval, the undergraduates instituted a boycott of Princeton's shopkeepers, whose chief subsistence is the undergraduate trade. "No Vote-No Trade," "Recrimination for Discrimination," cried campus signs. This phase of the affair was reminiscent of the origin of it all. Last year the Princeton undergraduates were not allowed to vote in a mayoral primary election. Reason alleged: one of the candidates was Benjamin Franklin ("Bacon") Bunn, keeper of the co-operative store on the University campus. Another candidate, a onetime faculty member named Van Nest, believed that the students would pour out to vote...
...most part the discourses were similar. The Freshmen, slightly ill at ease, or somnolent, were urged to achieve "divine curiosity" (Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler), to create an intellectual atmosphere (Dr. John Grier Hibben). In general, they were implored not to behave like Freshmen, but like bright, contented students...