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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Form No. 1 . . THIS CASE ORIGINATED AT BUREAU ‘eueNno. %7=784 PERIOD FOR WHICH MADE 318 ,19,2 DATE WHEN MADE An2hnh2 REPORT MADE AT NEWARK, NEW JERSEY TITLE Q ROBERT STUAGHTON LYND FD, ’ also known as ROBERT BROWNING LYND SYNOPSIS OF FACTS: LYND born September 1693 in New Albany, Indiana. * Princeton University from September 1910 to June 1914... Received AB Degree in English, with honors... No disciplinary. action or derogatory information in school record. Professor described him as intelligent, took advantage of opportunities *, and a hard worker. Was said to have written several radical : a? AM articles after graduation. Many students said to have con- /~ 2’ sidered LYND as being "Leftist" in his views. LYND wrote .. coo criticism of Princeton in that no negroes were admitted to the ™ school, there was a barrier between students and faculty, - rie yi, and Princeton students were "snobbish". No credit or criminal i% gv _ record in Princeton. . " oA ye " opgece REFERENCE: Bureau letter dated February 21, 1942. Bureau file T7-1583 ' DETAILS: qe....::=: office, Nassau Hall, Princeton - ersity, Princeton, N. J. produced the records which refl re the following information concerning ROBERT BROWNING LYND.° He was born in September, 1893 in New Albany, Indiana. His father was a cashier in the Citizens National Bank, Louisville, Ky. The applicant at ed the Male High School, Louisville, Kentucky, and in September, 1910, | enrolled at Princeton University, majoring in English. The average of a grades while in instant school was 2.3 with the average grade being 2.5. The record revealed that the applicant graduated with Honors receiving an ™ AB degree in English on June 16, 1914. There was no disciplinary action o derogatory information concerning the applicant while in instant school -|- -—- according to the scholastic--record.....-.—..-—» ‘ash eat sonst i “he COPIES OF THIS REPORT aA ‘\t Sle Bu eau - t ee ‘\ 2-Newaxk > ©