Princeton and the Priest

Father Halton can no longer march in Princeton’s academic processions; but, argues Mr. Farr, he now holds an invaluable honorary degree in reverse

Sociologists from Princeton University, as industrious as they are learned, are currently concerned with a number of subjects, including the development of the metropolitan area of New Delhi, India; the higher bureaucracy in the civil service of Egypt; cultural changes in Puerto Rico; homicide and suicide in Africa; and the social system among inmates of jails. All very interesting and important, to be sure—but with the opening of the fall term, an event took place on their own academic doorstep whose implications they might profitably study for months or even years to come. The event was the sensational and unprecedented ousting of the University’s Roman Catholic chaplain, the Rev. Hugh Halton, O.P., M.A., D.Phil. (Oxon.), a priest of the Dominican Order.

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Father Halton can no longer march in Princeton’s academic processions; but, argues Mr. Farr, he now holds an invaluable honorary degree in reverse

Sociologists from Princeton University, as industrious as they are learned, are currently concerned with a number of subjects, including the development of the metropolitan area of New Delhi, India; the higher bureaucracy in the civil service of Egypt; cultural changes in Puerto Rico; homicide and suicide in Africa; and the social system among inmates of jails. All very interesting and important, to be sure—but with the opening of the fall term, an event took place on their own academic doorstep whose implications they might profitably study for months or even years to come. The event was the sensational and unprecedented ousting of the University’s Roman Catholic chaplain, the Rev. Hugh Halton, O.P., M.A., D.Phil. (Oxon.), a priest of the Dominican Order.