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...when the last detention was lifted in 1955, only 39 students chose to return to Red China. ¶ After a three-hour session behind closed doors, the trustees of Princeton University decided the problem that had raised a rumpus extending all the way to Congress: Should the American Whig-Cliosophic Society, the oldest student debating society in the U.S., be allowed to hear a speech this week by Convicted Perjurer Alger Hiss? Though unanimously disapproving the invitation, the trustees answered yes by a 26-4 vote. The society, they explained, obviously had no "subversive intent.' Therefore the trustees...
...academic freedom issue, the row over down when Hiss spoke. They emigrated from the city in droves, corncring 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 anti-climactic speech...
...level-headedness of undergraduates was just what the newspapermen wanted to see break topics had dwindled, and Whig-Clio wanted to do something to spark sagging attendance at it's 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 choice of Hiss by Bruce D. Bringgold '57, Whig-Clio president. "We all had Father Halton regretted that the initial invition 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...
...Whig-Clio's motives in asking Hiss probably were several. Student interest in current affairs...