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...level-headedness of undergraduates was just what the newspapermen wanted to see break topics had dwindled, and Whig-Clio wanted to do something to spark sagging attendance at it's 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 choice of Hiss by Bruce D. Bringgold '57, Whig-Clio president. "We all had Father Halton regretted that the initial invition was ever tendered to Hiss. The Whig-Cliosophic Society which sponsored the talk, originally asked a total of seventeen luminaries--including Vice-President Nixon, Generals MacArthur, Ridgeway, and Marshall, Governor Folsom, Senators Eastland, McCarthy, Kefauver, and George--to address undergraduates...
Only Kefauver, and two others, Senator Sparkman and journalist William S. White, agreed, as did Hiss, to come...
Whig-Clio's motives in asking Hiss probably were several. Student interest in current affairs...
Vlastos, professor of Philosophy, said that the appearance of Hiss in spite of wide prostest was a great boost to University morale. "There is terrific reaffirmation of Princeton's principles. Gregory the appearance of Alger Hiss was a heartening 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...