HIBBEN IS NAMED PHI BETA KAPPA ORATOR

John Grier Hibben. President of Princeton University, will deliver the Phi Beta Kappa oration at the annual Commencement exercises on June 25. Leonard Bacon, a young poet, and a graduate of Yale, has been chosen to give the poem.

The exercises will begin in Sanders Theatre at 11.30 o'clock Friday, the next to the last day of Commencement week. They will be preceded by a business meeting in Emerson D at which the newly elected Senior members will be initiated. Following the speeches the members who are present at the exercises will be entertained at a luncheon at the Union.

President Hibben is one of a distinguished line of Phi Beta Kappa orators which is headed by Ralph Waldo Emerson, whose speech on the occasion of his appearance at the Phi Beta Kappa exercises has been regarded as among his most famous utterances.

One of the leading educators in the country at present, President Hibben is a worthy successor of the many illustrous men who have come to Harvard on this occasion in past years. For many years a professor of logic and psychology at Princeton, he was elevated to the Presidency when Woodrow Wilson, then President became Governor of New Jersey.

Leonard Bacon, this year's Phi Beta Kappa poet, is a Yale graduate who subsequently held a teaching post at the University of California. He has now given up his academic affiliations and is engaged in writing poetry.