Word: princeton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Princeton Seminary. At Princeton Theological Seminary Dr. Gresham Machen and Dr. Charles R. Erdman had maintained a bitter imbroglio for years. Dr. Machen, a stricter Presbyterian theologian than Dr. Erdman, had been named to the Chair of Apologetics at the Seminary. Of Dr. Machen's intellectual qualifications there was never a quibble. But Dr. Erdman fought the appointment on personal grounds...
...general assembly voted to put the Seminary under a single board of control, and heard an investigating committee recommend that Dr. Machen's appointment "be not confirmed." Said Moderator Thompson, his head bowed, his voice faltering: "It is not more theology but more religion that is needed in Princeton." The general assembly applauded...
...Committee reported further that it considered at length the situation at the time of the severing of relations with Princeton and made a report to the Board of Overseers. It took action also in approbation of the President in condemning certain articles in undergraduate publications and approved the appointment of a committee to confer with the Athletic Committee and the Student Council...
...Constitution of this "Princeton Commonwealth" is interesting chiefly in its relation to the definition of what does and what does not come under the province of student jurisdiction. Advocating "complete powers over affairs principally affecting undergraduates", as a right of the Student Council, this proposed Constitution believes that a board composed of the Chairman of Undergraduate Life Committee of the Trustees, the President of the University, and the President of the Student Council which under the new regime would be a more representative body than before--could in conference, decide what constituted such "affairs". That premise established, the remaining articles...
...sufficiently perilous to condone its partial rejection, serve as a test case for the whole theory of student government. Heretofore in most colleges the Student Council has been a pretty toy, an honorary roll of prominent undergraduates, the efficiency of which is subjugated to its glory. If adopted at Princeton and enforced with the rigidity which in its present form it seems to demand, the system will cease to be only symbolical of student cooperation and will be in reality a vital factor in the daily life of the college. The instigators of the project at Princeton appear...