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Other than that he voted for Adlai Stevenson, we know nothing about the general views of Dr. Robert Francis Goheen, who will next June succeed Harold Willis Dodds as President of Princeton University. We are nevertheless ready to congratulate the University’s Trustees for the sheer symbolism of their appointment. Dr. Goheen is neither a general, an admiral, a businessman nor a politician. He is a scholar and a teacher, and the young father of a large family. His professional field, moreover, is not chemistry, business administration or even Social Science, but—of all things—Greek and the Classics (remember?). If the great universities begin turning education back to educators, and to educators who are interested in the humanities, then indeed a revolution is at hand.

The 1956 edition of the “modern Olympic Games” has ended with the normal contribution to international bad feeling and hypocrisy, made more shameful than usual by the presence of representatives of the regime that was concurrently engaging in the athletic exercise of driving tanks over Hungarian students, workers and women. By virtue of the ridiculous list of “events” and the pointless point system, the Soviet professionals were given a free propaganda splurge as the true heirs of the ancient Hellenes. Half of the large Hungarian squad made the tragic choice of exile; and the other half the equally tragic decision that they must return to loved ones whom they could not abandon.

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Other than that he voted for Adlai Stevenson, we know nothing about the general views of Dr. Robert Francis Goheen, who will next June succeed Harold Willis Dodds as President of Princeton University. We are nevertheless ready to congratulate the University’s Trustees for the sheer symbolism of their appointment. Dr. Goheen is neither a general, an admiral, a businessman nor a politician. He is a scholar and a teacher, and the young father of a large family. His professional field, moreover, is not chemistry, business administration or even Social Science, but—of all things—Greek and the Classics (remember?). If the great universities begin turning education back to educators, and to educators who are interested in the humanities, then indeed a revolution is at hand.

The 1956 edition of the “modern Olympic Games” has ended with the normal contribution to international bad feeling and hypocrisy, made more shameful than usual by the presence of representatives of the regime that was concurrently engaging in the athletic exercise of driving tanks over Hungarian students, workers and women. By virtue of the ridiculous list of “events” and the pointless point system, the Soviet professionals were given a free propaganda splurge as the true heirs of the ancient Hellenes. Half of the large Hungarian squad made the tragic choice of exile; and the other half the equally tragic decision that they must return to loved ones whom they could not abandon.