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John Grier Hibben, President of Princeton University, last night delivered the Godkin lecture in Sanders Theatre. Treating two subjects under the titles of "Society and the Individual" and "The Nation and the Society of Nations", the eminent educator stressed not only the duties which the individual owes to the state, and to his fellow citizens, but also the duties of the United States owed to the rest of the world, which, he felt, call for this country's joining the World Court as the "irreducible minimum of our international obligations...
Then, after asserting that the primary object of a college education was to prepare the student to fit into society as an essential part of the social structure in which he lives, President Hibben showed that Harvard and Princeton were working along parallel lines to produce a body of young men who have "learned to think for themselves," tion in conduct...
...speech delivered last night by President John Grier Hibben of Princeton University is indicative of an encouraging tendency in American thought of the present day. The general title of the Godkin Lecture, "Free Government and the Duties of Free Citizenship" is a question of interest and importance to all citizens, and one upon which public opinion is ever inquiringly active. Any light which may be cast upon the point is welcome. In President Hibben's address we find the head of one great university placing his opinions on this vital matter before the members of another university. The institutions...
Last night President Hibben was given a dinner by the Princeton Alumni Association of New England at the University Club...
President John Grier Hibben of Princeton will give the single Godkin Lecture at Sanders Theatre tonight at 8 o'clock. In this lecture he will treat "The Individual and Society" and "The Nation and the Society of Nations." However, the last subject does not refer to the League of Nations, but in a more general sense to the great world mass comprising all nations and races...