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Pumpkins and red paint at Princeton cannot obscure the basic principle of academic freedom which the trustees and administration have supported in the past week. Although they made the point very clear that they did not think the Whig-Cliosophic Society should have invited Alger Hiss to speak, they stated with equal strength that they would not succumb to alumni pressures by interfering with a student group's right to have a free hand in inviting speakers...
...Dominican priest's remark came in his introduction of Willard Edwards, Washington correspondent of the Chicago Tribune, who spoke on "The Meaning of Alger Hiss." Edwards' talk, sponsored by the Aquinas Foundation was on the eve of the Hiss speech to the Whig-Cliosophic Society on "The Meaning of Geneva...
Halton further charged that Princeton is in its "darkest hour" and that the Hiss controversy is "only a dramatic expression of the University's spiritual crisis...
Representative T. James Tumulty (D-N.J.), an outspoken opponent of Hiss, was also the subject of undergraduate derision, when he put in a surprise appearance before the tense gathering in McCosh Hall. Though applauded at the conclusion of his speech, Tumulty was jeered when he asserted, "I don't want to see this great university used by someone like Hiss...
...contrast to the impassioned harangues of Halton and Tumulty, Edwards talk was a sober and reasonable review of the Hiss record. He warned undergraduates however, that Hiss would give "a dramatic and charming performance" at the Whig-Clio speech tomorrow night. Students gave the Tribune reporter a spontaneous standing ovation when he concluded...