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President John Grier Hibben of Princeton University will deliver a single Godkin Lecture at Harvard on Thursday, April 28. Instead of two lectures as previously announced for April 26 and 28. The lecture will take place in Sanders Theatre at 8 o'clock in the evening and will be open to the public...
Through the U. S. mails, last week, went a fat letter. It was addressed to President John Grier Hibben of Princeton University and signed by Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon. It contained Air. Mellon's theory of foreign debt settlements and a systematic rebuke to the academicians of Princeton and Columbia who recently urged a reconsideration and revision of the debt pacts. Soon President Hibben replied, and amid the clash of opinions facts became cloudy. But the following facts, as stated by Secretary Mellon, were not challenged...
...becomes nervous and his newspaper howls. So it was last week. A large part of the faculty of Princeton University followed a large part of the faculty of Columbia University in advocating reconsideration of the Allied debts to the U. S. in a more altruistic light. President John Grier Hibben and 115 professors signed the Princeton petition. The Chicago Tribune was howl-leader. In an editorial headed "Piffle Patriots at Princeton" it said: "The reasoning of the Columbia professors was not good in either morals or economics. The signers were obviously groggy with emotionalism and Mr. Hibben indicates that there...
President Hibben is a noted lecturer and the author of numerous philosophic and political works. His "Problems of Philosophy" and "The Higher Patriotism" are his most widely known works. He is also the editor of "The Epochs of Philosophy" in 12 volumes by authors in the United States and Great Britain In his lectures President Hibben will probably deal with the philosophy of government...
...field and greater frequency but the Godkin series given every April on "The Essentials of Free Government and the duties of the Citizen" or some phase of that subject has maintained the standard established by Lord Bryce, its first lecturer, and continued by such men as President Eliot. Mr. Hibben, distinguished not only as President of Princeton University but also for his scholarly work in philosophy, and more particularly the philosophy of the state, is a happy choice to give the lectures...