The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-23
NEW REVOLUTION ON
WAY AT PRINCETON
DR.. Hibben Outlines Plans to
Graduates at Greatest of
Alumni Days.
BIG ENDOWMENT SOUGHT
Better Pay for Instructors Pro-
posed-Old Nassau's Grand
War Record Recalled.
BIG ENDOWMENT SOUGHT
star Correspondent Of THE SUN.

Stag Correspondent OF THE SUN.
PRINCETON. Feb. 22.-Untr a few
weeks ago a military school and camp
with fewer than a hundred students in
the academic courses, Princeton Is a
university once more. Graduates came
back to-day for their greatest alumni
day. the FIRST reunion since the war
ended. and found IL so. They found out
also from President Hibben that II
Princeton Is to be a truly national uni
versity. which II intends to be, changes
amounting to revolution must be
made. including a great expansion of
the endowment fund, SO that assistant
professors may receive at least as much
pay as the bricklayers Of this town are
now asking
Dr. HIbben did not mention the brick
layers, but II Is a fact that there are
men on the faculty who have grown
gray In the service of the university
who get, not earn. less than the est
mable artisans who weld stone and
badly than President Hibben stated the
case to-day, but one gathered from his
address that Princeton wants every fact
known which will help to make Nassau
one OF the best equipped institutions
financially instead of one OF the worst
Princeton proportionately sent more
men into the war than any other Amer
'can university. and lost more. There
are 1870 gold stars on her flag. and the
returns are not all in. This being Wash
ington's Birthday Il was especially ap-
propriate that the diploma and Cross
Of the French Legion of Honor should
have been presented to DR.. Hibben'in the
room in Nassau Hall where Washing
ton and Lafayette counselled together
In the darkest hours Of the Revolution.
Princeton and Perparedness.
The reason for the presentation was
amply stated by Capt. Formestraux. who
made Il. He said:
you realized before others that Amer
lea should prepare herself to take part
IN war in which her own future might
be, and indeed already was, involved.
You advocated military training and uni
versal military service. You urged
American action. You were not de-
TERED by the threats made against you,
and In introducing at Princeton a course
IN military training you are responsible
for the leading role which Princeton.
among American universities, played
during this war. A phrase from one of
YOUR speeches became not only the
watchword OF America but the watch
word Of the Allies: I believe in peace
at any price. but the price of peace Is
victory
For that" the French Captain said.
France considers you one of her sons
and confers on you the distinction she
grants her sons who fought for her glory
aud her liberty
He might have added the fact, of
which Dr. Hibben Is very proud, that the
Frorturter Zeifun1 listed Princeton's
president as one OF the dozen Ameri-
ct
cause.
About $40 alumni gathered for the
Legion OF Honor ceremony and the an
nual luncheon in the university dining
halls, and 500 at the dinner In the Mas
sau Club which ended the days pro-
gramme. At the luncheon the president
told of his hopes for the future of the
university. "Princeton's reconstruction
he called it At the dinner men In olive
drab and blue. back from the ends of
the earth, spun yarns around the general
theme, Fighting the Hun in Heaven
above, the earth beneath and the waters
under the earth"
Heilsen Poo Injured at Scissors.
For instance, there was Lieut. Nielsen
Poe. 81. of the Princeton football Poes.
who went with the Twenty-eighth In
tsntry, Regulars, into CaRtigny and later
At SCISSORS was wounced in both arms
and the side by cnunks OF shell. He was
invaded back TO America with nothing
except the Distinguished Service medal
and the Croix de Guerre to add to his
ensemble of Princeton trophies.
Somebody asked Net Poe to tell a
comic story or two from the front On
any other subject he would have COM
Piled instantly. But this time he
begged Off
I'm sorry" he said. but I have no
smusing stories to tell. don't see any
thing funny In war"
But he did tell them about searching
,or the grave of his brother, Johnny
Poe. that wandering son OF Princeton
Who after distinguishing himself In the
Foreign Legion. fell while fighting with
ne Black Watch. the Forty-second High
lsnders, before America got into the war,
Johnny Poe was killed and buried near
Ioos, and his brother, who got leave
" absence to find the grave shortly be-
fore his own return to the-United States,
explored the battlehelds and cemetery
and found many well marked crosses
but none bearing the name of Johnny
Poe
Another brother. who Is still In France
will continue the search. This Is not a
story about the Poes but 1t will do to
mention here the fact that the man who
brother OF Nielsen and Johnny, Arthur
Poe 81 Cedar Rapids. Ia The news IL
also pertinent that n new Poe has come
70 Princeton this year to keep the family
torch burning and maybe carry the ball
over Hsle's goal line-Freshman John
Prentiss Poe Sd, son OF John Foe OF
the class OF 1884.
Aces Tell of War Experiences.
Others who told OF their war expert
ences we're two OF Princeton's four aces
N aviation-Lieut. Lansing c. Holden
lt, who brought down eight Germans
ard Lieut.. George A. Vaughn. 'l9. whose
score was ten, Vaughn stands third
among American aces. The other war
rlors At the dinner were Lieut.-Col. NJ
a Hall. 10. of the air service. decorated
ny the British and Belgian Govern
ments Lieut. J. d. Este, '0s; and repre-
sentng tho navy. r. W. Buxton. 's4. and
Ensign Dave Tibbott. III, of football
Tame. who went prowllng after subma-
rnes in the old Morgan yacht the Cor
sair, All these names will have high
places in Princeton's Valhalla, but II
was principallv of the 40 who gave