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undergraduates. DR.. Hibben has fol-
years beer one of the most popular
members of the faculty. This senti-
nient is expressed in a verse in the
famous Faculty Song" which is sung
on the steps of Nassau Hall by the
seniors in the spring evenings. 1T is
one of the few surviving verses of the
original song as it was first sung six
teen years ago, and runs:
Here's to Hibben, We call him Jack,
The whitest maj in all the Fac.
The Princeton spirit he does not lack.
Here's to Hibben, we call him Jack"
Prof. Hibben was born in Peoria, ILL.,.
fifty years ago, the son OF a clergy
man. Rev. Samuel Hibben. He was
graduated from Princeton in 1857. AS
an undergraduate he won many
scholastic honors, including one of the
Stinnecke prizes, the class Of 81 prize,
a Junior orator medal. and at gradu-
alton he was the valedictorian of his
class II won the j. S. X. fellowship
in mathematics. He was also elected
president Of his elias, an Office he still
holds. He received the master of arts
degree from Princeton in 1885, the
doctorate of philosophy in 1898 and the
honorary LII. -. from Lafayette in
1907. From 1883 to 1887 he studied at
the Princeton Theological Seminary
and at the University Of Berlin, and
was ordained to the Presbyterian min
istry in 1887, serving as pastor of the
Failing Spring Presbyterian Church.
Chambersburs, Pa, from that .%ear
until 1891, when he returned to Prince
tor as Instructor in logic and psy-
chology.
The versatility of his scholarship was
early demonstrated on his return to
Princeton. for i'll addition to his work
in logic and psychology he conducted
classes in mathematics, Biblical litera-
ture and ethics. He was advanced to
an assistant ~professorship of logic in
1894. and in 1897 to the stuart profess
sorship Of logic, which he now holds.
Meantime he has beer active in origi-
nal research. having published in 1896
his ~''Inductive Logic" which is ex-
tensivcly used as a textbook in schools
and colleges; problems of Philosophy
in 1896, 'Hegels Logic" in 1902, De
Logic" in 1905, and THE
Philosophy of Enlightenment" in 1909.
The latter is one of twelve volumes in
u ries on 1.-THE Epochs of Philoso-
ply" of which Professor Hibben is the
general editor, the contributing authors
being leading philosophers of Great
and the United states. Profess
sor Hibben has also served as presi-
dent of the American Philosophical AS
ISOLATION.
During the present year Professor
Tlibben has been giving a series of
public lectures in Princeton ON philoso-
phical and scientific thought, which
attracted large audiences. BY
lectures, Princeton men say. his
ability to give clear n persuasive eX-
preston to an abstruse theme has been
brought out more than ever before.
For several years, also, he has been
much in demand as a speaker before
associations, as well as at ami
versaries of other institutions, and on
occasions.
Professor Hibben has for several
served on important faculty COM
mittees, which has given him valuable
administrative experience. He is also
a member of the Graduate Council,
which was constituted a few years ago
to give organized effect to the work
and influence of the alumni.
When Woodrow Wilson ~relinquished
the presidency of Princeton in October,
1910, Just before the election which
made him Governor of New Jersey, an
lnterregnum began which left the uni
without a regular head for
over a year. John A. Stuart. of the
was elected president pro
ten1pore, with the general understand
ing that another would obtain the per-
manent Office. ..Vh1 that other was to
be remained until tfis present selection.