The next President of the United States will be Dr. John Grier Hibben, President of Princeton Universitybecause he sat at the right of Professor William Lyon Phelps at the annual Phi Beta Kappa dinner in New Haven. As toastmaster of the gathering, Professor Phelps pointed out:
"In 1907, when I was toastmaster at the Phi Beta Kappa banquet, William Howard Taft, then Secretary of War, sat at my right. When Tracy Peck made the speech in Latin, he predicted Taft would be the next President. From that moment Taft's chances became good.
"In...
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