The Story of PrincetonLittle, Brown,, 1917 - 270 páginas |
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Aaron Burr administration alumni American appointed Ashbel Green athletics authorities Battle of Princeton board of trustees boys British building celebration century chapel charter clubs college laws colonies Commencement committee Congress Continental Congress Davies discipline Doctor Carnahan Doctor Maclean Doctor McCosh Doctor Patton Doctor Witherspoon early elected endowment enrollment erected established faculty Finley Freshmen funds Gilbert Tennent Governor Graduate College Henry honor hundred inauguration institution Jersey John Maclean John Witherspoon Jonathan Jonathan Dickinson later lege Log College lottery Madison ment Nassau Hall occasion Oliver Ellsworth organized patriotic period Philadelphia prayer hall Presbyterian Church President Burr President Carnahan President Smith president's Prince Professor resigned Reverend Doctor Revolution Samuel Samuel Livermore Samuel Stanhope Smith senior shillings sophomore spirit Stockton studies tavern Tennent thousand dollars tion town tutors undergraduates village Washington William Yale York
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Página 33 - I have a constitution, in many respects peculiarly unhappy, attended with flaccid solids ; vapid, sizy, and scarce fluids, and a low tide of spirits; often occasioning a kind of childish weakness and contemptibleness of speech, presence, and demeanour ; with a disagreeable dulness and stiffness, much unfitting me for conversation, but more especially for the government of a college.
Página 40 - As a remarkable instance of this, I may point out to the public that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preserved in so signal a manner for some important service to his country.
Página 84 - there is a tide in the affairs of men, — a nick of time. We perceive it now before us. To hesitate, is to consent to our own slavery. That noble instrument upon your table, which insures immortality to its author, should be subscribed this very morning by every pen in the House.
Página 78 - Their letter to the merchants in Philadelphia requesting their concurrence was lately burnt by the students of this place in the college yard, all of them appearing in their black gowns, and the bell tolling.
Página 84 - That noble instrument upon your table, which insures immortality to its author, should be subscribed this very morning by every pen in the House. He that will not respond to its accents and strain every nerve to carry into effect its provisions, is unworthy the name of a freeman.
Página 202 - When a scientific theory is brought before us, our first inquiry is not whether it is consistent with religion, but whether it is true.
Página 84 - For my own part, of property I have some, of reputation more. That reputation is staked, that property is pledged, on the issue of this contest; and, although these gray hairs must soon descend into the sepulchre, I would infinitely rather that they descend thither by the hand of the executioner than desert at this crisis the sacred cause of my country.
Página 60 - Every scholar shall keep his hat off about ten rods to the president, and about five to the tutors. Every scholar shall rise up and make his obeisance when the president goes in or out of the hall, or enters the pulpit on days of religious worship. When...
Página 75 - In this favorable position for hearing all that passed, I noted in terms legible, and in abbreviations and marks intelligible to myself, what was read from the chair or spoken by the members; and losing not a moment unnecessarily between the adjournment and reassembling of the Convention, I was enabled to write out my daily notes during the session or within a few finishing days after its close, in the extent and form, preserved in my own hand, on my files.
Página 84 - There is,' said he, when he saw the House wavering, ' there is a tide in the affairs of men, — a nick of time. We perceive it now before us. To hesitate, is to consent to our own slavery. That noble instrument upon your table, which...