Word: whig
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Pumpkins and red paint at Princeton cannot obscure the basic principle of academic freedom which the trustees and administration have supported in the past week. Although they made the point very clear that they did not think the Whig-Cliosophic Society should have invited Alger Hiss to speak, they stated with equal strength that they would not succumb to alumni pressures by interfering with a student group's right to have a free hand in inviting speakers...
...Dominican priest's remark came in his introduction of Willard Edwards, Washington correspondent of the Chicago Tribune, who spoke on "The Meaning of Alger Hiss." Edwards' talk, sponsored by the Aquinas Foundation was on the eve of the Hiss speech to the Whig-Cliosophic Society on "The Meaning of Geneva...
...contrast to the impassioned harangues of Halton and Tumulty, Edwards talk was a sober and reasonable review of the Hiss record. He warned undergraduates however, that Hiss would give "a dramatic and charming performance" at the Whig-Clio speech tomorrow night. Students gave the Tribune reporter a spontaneous standing ovation when he concluded...
...Princeton University, the American Whig-Cliosophic Society, undergraduate debating group, announced that ex-State Department Employee Alger Hiss will speak to the society late this month on "The Meaning of Geneva." It will be Hiss's first public address since he got out of a federal pen in 1954, after serving three years and eight months of a five-year sentence for perjury about his role as a Red agent in the State Department...
...addition to individual alumni who have objected, the Princeton Alumni of Northern New Jersey as a body wired the officers of the Whig-Cliosophic Society asking them to reconsider their decision to invite Hiss, a convicted perjurer, to speak at a meeting on "The Meaning of Geneva." The alumni claim that this action has seriously discredited Princeton and will hurt the annual giving campaign among Princeton alumni...