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...Princeton you've got to swallow everything the first year. It's like a damned prep school. " Amory agreed. " Lot of pep, though, " he insisted. " I wouldn't have gone to Yale for a million. " -"This Side of Paradise...
...item entitled "Goheen Goes" [April 5] said that Princeton has cut the number of prep school graduates to 70% of the freshman class. For the record, the public school graduates made up about 50% when Mr. Goheen became president nearly 14 years ago, and this year were 70% of the freshman class...
Novelist Buechner (A Long Day's Dying) was ordained a Presbyterian minister and served for a time as chaplain of a boys' prep school. It may be that this professionalism allows him his easy way with the rigors of belief. Without satire or solemnity, he describes Bebb's religion-a life force as sleazy as its peddler. Bebb is, among other things, a sexual exhibitionist, and there is a memorable scene at the altar of his cinderblock church in which he restores potency to an oil-rich old Indian by raising up his own loins in thanksgiving...
...Robert F. Goheen coolly announced that he was going to become president of Princeton University. Born in India, the son of a Presbyterian medical missionary, he then swept (cum laude) through Princeton's feeder prep school, Lawrenceville. He worked his way through Princeton selling football tickets, graduated in 1940 with the school's top honor prize. After earning his doctorate (thesis: "The Imagery of Sophocles' Antigone") at Princeton, he joined the faculty and became head of the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Program, which aids future college teachers. When Princeton's trustees began looking for a new president...
...students have joined the faculty in working out some of the nation's most rational guidelines for deciding where to cut university expenses. Well before that, Goheen helped Princeton discard its white-shoe image. He reduced the social power of fraternity-like "eating clubs," cut the number of prep-school graduates to 70% of the freshman class, steadily recruited black students. In 1968 Princeton went coed. Of its current 5,100 students, 700 are women...