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We spoke last week of Robert F. Goheen’s appointment to the presidency of Princeton University, and of the half-hearted way in which the Liberal propaganda machine has gone about trying to answer the questions that unavoidably arise in its target audience’s mind, namely: Why Mr. Goheen—instead of someone with a reputation as a thinker about education? Why Mr. Goheen—and not one of the nation’s distinguished scholars, or some famed administrator, or at least a man with a countrywide reputation as a teacher? And we agreed to examine in detail the “case” a writer in the New York Times Magazine was able—or took the trouble—to make out for him. Well, here it is:

He is Princeton’s “youngest president in 200 years.” Which is to say: Two hundred and one years ago Princeton had an even younger president, so the appointment is not unprecedented.

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We spoke last week of Robert F. Goheen’s appointment to the presidency of Princeton University, and of the half-hearted way in which the Liberal propaganda machine has gone about trying to answer the questions that unavoidably arise in its target audience’s mind, namely: Why Mr. Goheen—instead of someone with a reputation as a thinker about education? Why Mr. Goheen—and not one of the nation’s distinguished scholars, or some famed administrator, or at least a man with a countrywide reputation as a teacher? And we agreed to examine in detail the “case” a writer in the New York Times Magazine was able—or took the trouble—to make out for him. Well, here it is:

He is Princeton’s “youngest president in 200 years.” Which is to say: Two hundred and one years ago Princeton had an even younger president, so the appointment is not unprecedented.