The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-03
LOYALTY LEADS
 IN WORDS VOTES
Courage Second Choice Of Princeton Faculty, With
 Truth Trailing

PRINCETON, N, J.., Feb. "A re cent discussion, cuIminating in an in quiry by Prof. Christian Gauss of the Princeton university faculty, took the form of the question, "What are the six most important words in the Eng fish language?" .{. &
 Word lists from ten men, most of them faculty members, showed that Loyalty found a place on six of the ten lists. There was attendency for the se- lections to bear some relation to. the line of work in which the particular man was interested. Next to Loyalty four times, while Sportsmanship vas named on three of the selection. Other words to find more than. one mention were Sanity, Self Respect, Humor, Truth, Yes, No and Knowledge.
 President. John Grier Hibben named Loyalty second only to Duty on his of the Graduate school and Dr. Joseph E.. Raycroft of the department of physi- cal education, gave it first rank in their selections. The other three men who placed Loyalty either first or sec ond were: Dr. J. Duncan Spaeth. professor of English and director. of rowing at Princeton David Patton, the archaeologist and Henry Bowie, the campus proctor.
 One of the unique lists was that of Henry van Dyke, Professor Emeritus of the English department and noted author. who gave as the six words most fundamentally important to man the following: A, The, Is, Yes, No and Do. On only one occasion did the word Serv- ice find a place, and this was with President Hibben, whose complete list is: Duty. Loyalty, Honor, Self Con- trol. Service and Sacrifice. ,
 In close connection with his branch of study were the words in the list of Prof., Edwin Grant Conklin, one of the foremost authorities on heredity and biology in the country, whose selec- tions were: Sincerity, Sanity, Hu- manity, Love, Truth and Beauty. Fol croft were Courage, Persistence, Self Respect, Sportsmanship and Tolerance
 Dean Andrew West, for years one of the foremost educators of the country, places Knowledge after Loyalty and. Magnanimity in his choice, and con cludes with Energy, Courage and Hu-' nor. Lacking catholic sense of hu- mor," according to David Patton, the Psychologist, is sure to make man take life too seriously, and according ly it is given a place on his list, which is Loyalty for friendships sake, Charity for charity's sake, Work for works sake, Sport for sports sake, and a catholic sense of humor." Sen sitiveness was a word occurring only in the list of Prof. Duane Reed Stuart of the classics department, who placed this first and gave the five other po- sitions to the following: Restraint, Sportsmanship, Courage, Self-Knowz ledge and Altruism. s'
 Dr. Patton, neuro-psychologist,. whose recent attack on football brought him to public attention, was positive of the value of Courage as an important fac tor in the language as well as in the life, but gave first place to Truth and the remaining to Courage, Persever- nnce, Health, Family and Friends. Hank" Bowie, university proctor, chose Religion, Loyalty, Honesty, Fairness, Work and Recreation, while, Dr. J. Duncan Spaeth's list was ar- ranged in pairs, which he considered hard to possess simultaneously: LiB-, erty and Loyalty, Sympathy and Jus tice and Intelligence and Character