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President John Grier Hibben of Princeton University strongly upholds the idea of college military training in an article in the Nassau Literary Magazine entitled "A Phase of Military Preparedness." He commends the idea of a strong military force for United States, and says that it in no way interferes with the universal peace movement which the present war has so rudely interrupted...
President Hibben of Princeton has expressed the hope in his annual report that paid coaches in college athletics will soon disappear. He maintains that athletics are suffering from an over-organized system of coaching, and that he believes that more responsibility should be placed on team captains. "If undergraduates were released from unnatural domination of their sports by graduate coaches, intercollegiate sport would be liberated from the abnormal incubus of a superimposed system which tends to make puppets of the players. In order that men may be resourceful in time of emergency they must be schooled...
Edgar Palmer, donor of the new memorial stadium, will formally present the edifice to Princeton before the game. President Hibben will accept it on the behalf of the university and Dean McClenahan will represent the Athletic Association...
That Princeton has been offered a Stadium, with a capacity for seating 41,000 persons, by Edgar Palmer a graduate of the class of '03, was announced Saturday by President Hibben. The plan has already been approved by the Committee on Grounds and Buildings of Princeton, the formal approvement of the Board of Trustees being expected on April...
...same time tonight the Yale affirmative team will meet the Princeton negative team in Alexander Hall, at Princeton. President John G. Hibben, of Princeton, will in all probability preside. As judges the following men have been chosen: President W. H. S. Demarest, of Rutgers College; Professor John W. Patton, of the University of Pennsylvania Law School; and Justice W. P. Rudd, of the New York State Supreme Court. The Yale team will be composed of E. A. Burtt '15, C. Cohen '15 and M. Hadley '16, none of whom have ever appeared in an intercollegiate debate before. Opposed to them...