Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-05-16
TAFT SEES H|BBEN
MADE PRESIDENT
Receives Honorary Degree a
Princeton-171 Educational
Institutions Represented.

Princeton, N. j.. May 12.-Perfe
weather and a beautiful campus. groom
for weeks for this occasion. combined
make the Inauguration yesterday of jon
Grier Hibben as president of Princet
University one of the most successful
ever held here.
The steps of Old Nassau. the first home
Of the college in New Jersey were chosen
for the site Of the ceremony 5000 poop"
or more being massed on the front campus
which served as n natural amphitheater
At the head of the academic procession
| We're President Taft. President Hibbcn
and Chief Justice White OF the United
States supreme Court. John Altman
Stewart, former president pro tempore Of
Princeton. delivered the charter and keys
of the university to the new president.
In his inaugural address President iiib-
ben announced his views on THE Essen
tials of Liberal Education" as follows;
We hear much to-day of the conserva :
ton of our national resources, our for
osts, the treasures of our mines and the
; vast material wealth of our land. But
while we are emphasizing the necessity
| of a national economy, we should no,
overlook the fact that the task of con-
|
of the Intellectual moral and spiritual
power in our nation is the one supreme
| task
! ART OF EDUCATION.
ITO conserve these powers. to cause
them to develop and to prevail. to de.
! liver free spirits from the bondage OF
ignorance and OF material impulse, from
the bondage of authority. of tradition. OF
public opinion, of passing fashion and OF
prejudice. and to direct these liberated
human forces to the highest ends, that /.
the art of education.
In Princeton we believe that 1t Is alb
! solutely necessary to have certain
schooling in preparation for the respon
siblities OF freedom; and that the hi
and miss choice of an immature mind
In new and strange surroundings. form!
a poor propaedeutic to the serious tasl
OF free investigation, of original though
and of practical efficiency.
We believe, moreover. that the hes
preparation for the freedom OF the If
of reason Is that group Of studies who's
very nature tends TO the training =
the powers OF the mind. developing il
a man both capa bility and resource, an
at the same time giving him a knowledg
of himself and OF the world in which h
lives.
After this early period of require
studies. the liberty which Is horn o
discipline can be wisely encouraged Z
manifest itself in the free choice of sub
jects for the remaining years Of the uni
versity course"
DEGREES FOR TAFT AND WHITE
When the applause that greeted Presi
dent Hibben as he concluded had sub
sided. the honorary degrees of LII.
, We're conferred upon President Taft an
Chief Justice White by Andrew r. Wes
dean of the graduate school
At the alumni luncheon representative
from Ill educational institutions had tn
, places of honor at the tables. NJ. Taylo
PNnc. ~. of the trustees served as toast
master. President Taft chief Justic
White, President lIhbcn. President Pat
ten of the Princeton Theological Seminar
and Presidents Lowell of Harvard. Had
ley of Yale, Schurman of Cornell an
Butler of Columbia made brief addresses
Governor Woodrow Wilson. Presidei
Ilbben's predecessor, was not presen
having sent word that he could not az
cept the invitation sent him, because
other engagements.