New-York tribune., 1911-10-16
NO PRINCETON HEAD YET
Election, 1t Is Said, viii Go Over
at Boards October Meeting.
DENIED HIBBEN IS CHOICE
Nominating Committee Member
Declares Status Is Same as
It Was a Year Ago.

A member Of the nominating committee
Of the board OF trustees Of Princeton Uni
versity said yesterday that the problem Of
selecting a president OF that institution was
no nearer solution than II was year ago
when Woodrow Wilson resigned 70 become
Governor of New Jersey. 1t was unlikely
it was said, that any action toward choos-
ing a man 10 fill the present vacancy would
be taken at the coming meeting OF the
trustees. on October 10.
The report recently current that the mat
ter would be settled beyond peradventure
at the october meeting, and that John
Grier Hibhen. professor Of logic at Prince
ton. would be the choice of the trustees.
was emphatically denied Professor Hib-
ben had no chance of election, IL was said.
Though several candidates had been sug-
gested. with the approval Of the 1or nat
ing committee, none Of them appeared 70
be satisfactory 10 the majority Of the
trustees.
Many reports have emanated from
Princeton in regard to Professor Hibben
and other men as being the probable Sc
lection for the presidency" said the
trustee, which are wholly without support
and prompted by extremely partisan mo-
tives The status Of the matter is the same
as It was a year ago, and there is no one
in view at present who IS likely 70 be
chosen. 1t is wholly improbable that the
board OF trustees viii take any action at
the coming meeting II would seem 70 be
inadvisable 20 appoint any one president or
Princeton who has taken an active part
I'm partisan controversies At the university.
IL is we'll known that Professor Jibben has
been an active partisan I'm that respect
The nominating committee has acted har-
mOniouslv il Is understood. in first select
ing one man and then another for the con-
sideratiOn Of the trustees, but the commit
tee has so far failed TO obtain the required
support from the trustees for any or the
candidates it has put forward. Or. H. a.
Garfield. president OF Williams College ana
son Of the ex-President Of the United
States; Professor Henry 3. Fine, dean or
the Princeton faculty. and John II. Finley
president Of the College Of the City OF New
York. appear 10 have figured prominently
among the candidates who have been sug-
gested TO the trustees.
Professor Hibben is said TO have a strong
following among the alumni of the uni
versitv particularly in the West, where
Or. Garfield and President Finley are not
so well known. The local alumni seem 70
be little more settled IN their opinions as
10 who should have the place than the
trustees themselves. who, according 10 one
of the nominating committee, are not set
tied at all.
The younger graduates are not inclined
10 treat the matter as seriously as their
elders. except 10 insist perhaps that the
next president should be preferably an
alumnus OF the university. on that ground
alumni sentiment would appear TO favor
Professor Hibben. who is a Princeton
graduate. while President Finley and Or.
Garfield are not alumni
Dr. Garfield and President Finley, how
ever. occupy a warm place in the hearts
of Princeton graduates. as they have both
served on the Princeton faculty PR Gar
field was professor Of politics at Princeton
from 1903 10 1905 President Finley az one
time held the same chair. Professor Fine
has been urged as "a candidttc most
strongly by the so-called Wilson trustees,
whose hope it is % get a man who VIII
best represent the Wilson policies.