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...University's reputation was both strengthened and weakened by the appearance of Alger Hiss. Among people who understand the meaning of academic freedom, Princeton's uncompromising attitude won added respect. Among those unaware of the issue's significance, the University's "hands-off policy was seriously detrimental...
...Father Hugh Halton, Princeton chaplain to Roman Catholic students, lost any effectiveness he may have once had as a critic of the University. His near-fanatic harangues on the Hiss controversy, which he seized upon as an issue by which to further his impassioned attack on the administration, have offended many Aquinas Foundation members, as well as most of the non-Catholic student body...
...academic freedom issue, the row over down when Hiss spoke. They emigrated from the city in droves, corncring 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 on Hiss' actually anti-climactic speech...
...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 issue would hurt Princeton's Annual Giving program...
Actually, one cannot help but suspect the motives of the Whig-Clio Society in asking Hiss to speak in the first place. While his comments on the Geneva Conference were undoubtedly interesting, his own position at Yalta was so unimportant as to make him anything but an expert on international conferences. More than anything else, Hiss was controversial, and all the hoopla surrounding the speech seems to be exactly what the Whig-Clios bargained...