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Like a dean beset by a hornet at Commencement, Princeton University has grimly done its dignified best during the past three years to ignore the tormenting attacks on its policies and faculty by the Rev. Dr. Hugh Halton, 44, a witty, articulate Dominican priest who is the chaplain for the university's Roman Catholic students. Halton's general charge: Princeton is a center of "moral and political subversion...
Last week Princeton swatted back. In what amounted to his first public action since taking over the presidency, earnest, energetic Dr. Robert Goheen, 38, withdrew "recognition" of Father Halton and denied him any claim to "official standing in Princeton University...
...action left Halton as director of the Aquinas Foundation, a Roman Catholic student organization, but canceled his privileges to use university facilities. The university's decision, insisted Goheen, "was not an issue of academic freedom." Said he: "Under claims of advancing the pursuit of truth, [Father Halton] has resorted to irresponsible attacks upon the intellectual integrity of faculty members. For tactics of this sort, no university devoted to freedom of rational inquiry and debate need make a home...
...Halton told the Daily Princetonian that he was a personal friend of Col. Archibald B. Roosevelt '17, chairman of the committee. In attacking the appointment of J. Robert Oppenheimer '26 as William James lecturer, Halton called it an example of "abusive liberalism" of such universities as Columbia, Harvard, and Princeton...
...Halton accused Charles E. Wyzanski, Jr. '27, President of the Board of Overseers, and the rest of the Harvard Administration of "appalling ignorance" in their handling of correspondence on the Oppenheimer invitation...