Word: princeton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Princeton. Convening in St. Paul, the 141st Presbyterian General Assembly settled the four-year fight over the management of Princeton Theological Seminary, greatest Presbyterian seminary in the U. S. Over the protests of Fundamentalists, who feared the move would unduly strengthen the hand of liberal Dr. Joseph Ross Stevenson, the president, it was voted to vest control of the seminary in a single joint board instead of the present dual control of trustees and directors. Those in favor insisted they were doing "nothing whatever which will tend to alter the distinctive doctrinal position which the seminary has maintained throughout...
...announcement that Professor Charles W. Kennedy of Princeton will be the referee of the Oxford-Cambridge-Harvard-Yale track meet next month comes as another proof of the amicable relations of official Princeton and Harvard. As chairman of the Princeton Board of Athletic Control Professor Kennedy has shown time and again since the break between the two institutions that his feelings toward Harvard are most cordial. There has been no lack of good will between him and Mr. Bingham...
With such evidence of friendliness among the directors of policy at the two universities the only conclusion can be that there is a bitter obstinacy somewhere in the ranks. Half of the student bodies at Harvard and Princeton has entered college since the rupture. It seems safe to say, therefore, that the number of obstructionists among them cannot be large, and that in the new college generation now beginning all record of the break will be forgotten...
Similar sums are bequeathed to seven other educational institutions, including Yale, Columbia, Princeton, the New England Conservatory of Music, Chicago Musical College, the College of Music of Cincinnati, and the Ann Arbor School of Music of the University of Michigan...
...besides 27 colleges abroad,--in Hawaii 1; the Philippines, 3; Austria, 1; Canada, 5; Egypt, 1; England, 3; France, 4: Hungary, 1; Japan, 3; Russia, 1; Sweden. 1; Switzerland, 2; Turkey, 1. Harvard College sent 112 students; Yale, 35; University of California, 26; Stanford University, 24; Dartmouth College, 22; Princeton University, 21; Williams College, 18; Brown University, 16; Bowdoin College, 15; and Massachusetts institute of Technology, 14. Students registered from 43 states, the District of Columbia, Hawall, the Philippines, and 19 foreign countries. The largest state delegations were from Massachusetts, 153; New York, 66; California 56; Ohio, 49; and Pennsylvania...