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Continuing their search for a permanent president, Princeton's trustees will have to consider at least three frequently mentioned alumni: Roland Sletor Morris (1896), Woodrow Wilson's Ambassador to Japan, president of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation and member of the advisory board of Princeton's school of public and international affairs; Walter Ewing Hope (1901), long an able, devoted Princeton trustee, lately (1929-31) Assistant Secretary of the Treasury; Lawyer Raymond Elaine Fosdick (1905) of Manhattan (brother of Preacher Harry Emerson Fosdick).
Another college without a president is the University of Virginia. Another president of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Newton Diehl Baker (whom Princeton's Morris succeeded), lately pooh-poohed the suggestion that he had been offered the Virginia post occupied by Dean John Lloyd Newcomb since the death of Edwin Anderson Alderman last year. Last week Virginia was apparently no nearer than Princeton to finding its man.
*During the last few years college trustees have shown an increasing disposition to choose presidents from among themselves. President Thomas Sovereign Gates of the University of Pennsylvania, onetime Morgan partner, was chairman of the board's executive committee; President Stanley King of Amherst was a member of the board, as were President Walter Lee Lingle of Davidson College (N. C.) and President-elect Pat Morris Neff of Baylor University (Tex.).