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...they feel has slowed scholarly progress for centuries. They point to the huffy removal of Sir Thomas More from Oxford by his father in the 15th century because the curriculum had added the newly "with it" subject of Greek. They like to recall the warning of Princeton President James McCosh in 1884 that removing Latin and Greek requirements would leave "the whole ancient world . . . unknown even to our educated...
While Shockley debated Ashley Montague, a retired Rutgers professor of anthropology, inside Princeton's McCosh Hall, 400 protesters marched outside and hanged and burned him in effigy...
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...
...Princeton the traditional class riots are at least tacitly approved, but vandalism and six injuries treated in McCosh Infirmary last Monday night caused Dean Francis R. B. Godolphin to put into full force the University regulation prohibiting student participation in riots...
Somehow, as the College of New Jersey grew up into Princeton University, the once-famed instrument disappeared. Not until last year was it rediscovered in the dusty basement of McCosh Hall. On display last week in Princeton's handsome new library, the antique wreck still puzzles Princeton's learned faculty. Not quite sure what to do with the astronomical marvel, Princeton's astronomers have not yet discovered how to make it perform...