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...prestige and respectability of the Princeton invitation is a disheartening testimony of the lengths to which immature and undisciplined freedom will take us. Our attitude as students toward this invitation should not be stubbornness or self-righteousness; it ought to be horror. Unfortunately, the Princeton administration, having admonished the Whig-Cliosophic Society, did not act with the courage of its convictions or with a recognition of its responsibilities to the whole University. Students without proper appreciation of their institution are in need of guidance, not flattery, from those in authority...
...final analysis, practically everyone except New York headline writers and opportunist Father Halton regretted that the initial invitation was ever tendered to Hiss. The Whig-Cliosophic Society, which sponsored the talk, originally asked a total of seventeen luminaries--including Vice-President Nixon, Generals MacArthur, Ridgeway, and Marshall, Governor Folsom, Senators Eastland, McCarthy, Kefauver, and George--to address undergraduates. Only Kefauver, and two others, Senator Sparkman and journalist William S. White, agreed, as did Hiss, to come...
...Whig-Clio's motives in asking Hiss probably were several. Student interest in current affairs topics had dwindled, and Whig-Clio wanted to do something to spark sagging attendance at its lectures. Though they knew that Hiss could impart no special information on "The Meaning of Geneva," they were genuinely curious about what he would have to say. Whig-Clio undoubtedly was interested to some degree in the publicity of a Hiss appearance, but of course had no notion that it would create such an unfortunate furor...
...Bruce probably wouldn't do it all over again if he had the choice," a public speaking teacher said in reference to the selection of Hiss by Bruce D. Bringgold '57, Whig-Clio president. "We all had no idea of the implications," he recalled...
...undergraduates was just what the newspapermen wanted to see break down when Hiss spoke. They emigrated from the city in droves, cornering reluctant students to voice an opinion on a man convicted when they were thirteen or fourteen. Photographers were so rambunctious when University proctors spirited Hiss into Whig Hall that he arranged an escape through the rear exit, leaving the men of the press taking pictures of themselves at the front. Representatives from Reuters, the London News-Chronicle, and the New Republic, who were left on the door-step, didn't get much of a story on Hiss' actually...