Princeton University - Bric A Brac Yearbook (Princeton, NJ)

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PRESIDENT TAFT MAKING ADDRESS

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, 0 UUPFHEPRINCETO iaaicaaaac Ill 1 Zlnaugurattnn Qerhites nf Rresihent john Grier Qbihhen jsassau iisall, jllllap 11, 15112 X595 WELQIUTANDING on the steps of Nassau Hall, and viewed by an audience of over five thousand per'- QQ sons, including the President of the United States, the Chief justice of the Supreme Court and Z 1 dm representatives from over one hundred and seventy institutions of learning from all parts of the tl nation, Professor John Grier Hibben, A.lVl., Ph.D., DD., LED., of the -Class of 1882, was for- mally inaugurated as the fourteenth President of Princeton University, on the morning of May 11, IQI2. With the trees on the front campus in full bloom and the sun shining down from a clear sky. enhancing the beauty of a perfect 'May morning, nothing could have been more impressive than the sight presented as President Hibben, speaking from the steps of the historic old building, between the two bronze Tigers,-the Hguards of Old Nassau, - took his oath of office and formally opened what promises to be a new era in the history of one of the oldest and most famous universities in the United States. It was par- ticularly fitting that the inauguration ceremonies should take place on the steps of Old North, the very soul of Princeton University as it is today,-the building Whose memory is dear to the heart of every Princeton Alumnus, and which has seen one hundred and fifty-six Princeton classes come and go. Before the taking of the oath, Professor Henry van Dyke, '73, Murray Professor of English Literature in the University, read a short passage from I Corinthians 13, and a brief prayer. The Honorable Mahlon Pitney, 579, Associate justice of the Supreme Court, then administered the oath of office to President Hibben. President Hibben was now formally recognized as the fourteenth President of Princeton and received the keys of the University from the Honorable john Aikman Stewart, Senior member of the Board of Trustees. He then arose and delivered his inaugural address, taking as his subject the fitting theme-f'The Essentials of a Liberal Education. ' N N :D

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Ufrnii-ianincisro 'iaaicanaac nfl Q' ' The results desired, Dr. Hibben summarized as follows: The results which by the four years of training we hope and expect to produce I would characterize in a single sentence: It is a transformation of the schoolboy into a man of the world,-a man who can move more freely and familiarly in the midst of the worldls varied activities, who speaks its language, who is conversant with its manners, and who can interpret its thought. Do not misunderstand my meaning, however, it must be the world conceived in no narrow and limited sense of the term. The true man of the world is not confined to the knowledge merely of his own day and generation. He must know the world of the past, as well as the world of the present. Por if he knows the past, he is more cap- able of serving the present. He must be free from provincialism, not only as regards space but also as re- gards time. His knowledge should not be restricted to any particular class of pursuits, or of interests, but should comprehend a cross-section of all social strata and embrace, in intelligent and sympathetic regard, the man whose life is a iight for bare existence, as well as the one whom he may seek as a companion and friend. The more profound and widely extended his knowledge of the world, the more powerfully will he dominate it. Let the college man be' a man of the world, but let his world be the world of all time, of all lands, and of all sorts and conditions of men. - The inaugural part of the ceremonies being now Completed, Professor Andrew P. VVest, ,74, Dean of the Graduate School, took the speakers' platform and conferred upon President Taft and Chief Justice VVhite the honorary degree of LL.D., in the name of Princeton. ' The exercises were closed by the singing of the Iooth psalm by the entire assembly and choir, to an accompaniment of trumpets, and the pronouncing of the benediction by the Rt. Rev. Edwin Stevens Lines, Bishop of Newark. Thus the history of Princeton was marked by the beginning of the administration of its fourteenth President. , ,ye vsr::.wpgi,f ff c -. 4Q'7b5'M,yvim5i- 223,50 ,EO 9 lil ,Q -4lihi.-hSLW4bs -1 ' 5 'W '3 1xXNISAlXlW27'x 4' N 9