Word: hissing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whig-Clio's motives in asking Hiss probably were several. Student interest in current affairs topics had dwindled, and Whig-Clio wanted to do something to spark sagging attendance at its lectures. Though they knew that Hiss could impart no special information on "The Meaning of Geneva," they were genuinely curious about what he would have to say. Whig-Clio undoubtedly was interested to some degree in the publicity of a Hiss appearance, but of course had no notion that it would create such an unfortunate furor...
...Bruce probably wouldn't do it all over again if he had the choice," a public speaking teacher said in reference to the selection of Hiss by Bruce D. Bringgold '57, Whig-Clio president. "We all had no idea of the implications," he recalled...
...Trustees, on the other hand, were well aware of the engagement's implications when they met April 19. By a vote of 26 to 4, they agreed to allow the Hiss invitation to stand, but voiced unanimously their "disapproval of the students" who offered the bid. In its action, the Board disregarded blasts from several influential alumni, including a north New Jersey group which noted in a Princetonian advertisement that the controversy was hurting Princeton's Annual Giving program...
...level-headedness of undergraduates was just what the newspapermen wanted to see break down when Hiss spoke. They emigrated from the city in droves, cornering reluctant students to voice an opinion on a man convicted when they were thirteen or fourteen. Photographers were so rambunctious when University proctors spirited Hiss into Whig Hall that he arranged an escape through the rear exit, leaving the men of the press taking pictures of themselves at the front. Representatives from Reuters, the London News-Chronicle, and the New Republic, who were left on the door-step, didn't get much of a story...
...unique position of a student adviser not on the Princeton payroll, he had previously waged bitter forays into both the Religion and Philosophy departments. Now his invective became so extreme that practically everyone on campus joined in the ridicule. He met incessant boos and jeers at his anti-Hiss, anti-Princeton talk on the eve of the great event, and caused a minor demonstration when he asserted, "Princeton is in its darkest hour...