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...Princeton, where chapel attendance is voluntary except on half the Sundays of each semester, there have been recurrent protests against even this vestige of compulsion. With a new chapel abuilding at the cost of several hundred thousands, President John Grier Hibben last week deemed it advisable to say: "If all the influence which Religion has played in Princeton's history were removed our heritage would be poor indeed...
...Conn., October 15.--Yale will act as host to the representatives of 25 of the leading universities of the country from October 28 to October 30, when the Association of American Universities meets here. Fourteen college presidents are expected to attend the sessions, among them Presidents Lowell of Harvard, Hibben of Princeton, Farrand of Cornell, and Wilbur of Leland Stanford...
Near Mr. and Mrs. Edison on the platform was John W. Lieb of the New York Edison Co. He dedicated the tablet and presented it to Governor George S. Silzer of New Jersey as a state monument, the latter accepting after Mrs. Edison had unveiled it. President John G. Hibben of Princeton then perorated, with interruptions by a rumbling freight train and a youthful Edisonian who leapt to the fore to declare he would never go to college.*Samuel Insull terminated the speechmaking...
...Princeton, N. J., President John Grier Hibben mounted to the rostrum of Alexander Hall and mildly berated his undergraduates for a falling-off in scholarship that took place last year. Said he: "What shall it profit a man to make the Triangle Club (dramatic society) and to drop out of Princeton?" It was Princeton's 178th year...
...only at the end of considerable discussion by the committee appointed by President Hibben last spring after the abolishment of bicker week that the new plan was drawn up. The system is organized to solve the problems of opening the clubs to Sophomores. It permits them periodical vists to Prospect street, and allows free bickering after a certain date...