The Handbook of Princeton

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Grafton Press, 1905 - 154 sivua
 

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Sivu 16 - Excellency to request him to sit for his picture, to be taken by Mr. Charles Wilson Peale, of Philadelphia. And...
Sivu 4 - New Jersey, for the Education of Youth in the learned Languages and in the liberal Arts and Sciences...
Sivu 28 - ... condemned to learn only the technical skill by which they are to live; but these are not the men whose privilege it is to come to a university. University men ought to hold themselves bound to walk the upper roads of usefulness which run along the ridges and command views of the general fields of life. This is why I believe general training, with no particular occupation in view, to be the very heart and essence of university training...
Sivu 16 - was received with manifest feeling; and next day he met me in the entry of the College as he was going to a committee-room of Congress, took me by the hand, walked with me a short time, flattered me a little, and desired me to present his best respects to my classmates, and his best wishes for their success in life. There had never been such an audience at a Commencement before, and perhaps there never will be again.
Sivu 10 - A large and well-sorted Collection of Books on the various Branches of Literature is the most ornamental and useful Furniture of a College; and the most proper and valuable Fund with which it can be endowed.
Sivu 99 - Prussia, one of the most renowned commanders of modern times, declared that the achievements of Washington and his little band of compatriots, between the 25th of December and the 4th of January following, were the most brilliant of any recorded in the annals of military performances.
Sivu 5 - And these may further notify all concern'd, that the said trustees have chosen the Rev. Mr. Jonathan Dickinson president, whose superior Abilities are well known ; and Mr. Caleb Smith tutor of the said college ; and that the college is now actually opened, to be kept at Elizabeth-Town, till a building can be erected in a more central place of the said province for the residence of the Students ; that all who are qualified for it, may be immediately admitted to an academick education, and to such...
Sivu 87 - So we rode back, and in some time found the landing-place and little path; then the two Friends committed us to the Lord's guidance, and went back. "We travelled that day and saw no tame creature. At night we kindled a fire in the wilderness and lay by it, as we used to do in such journeys. Next day, about nine in the morning, by the good hand of God, we came well to the Falls, and by His Providence found there an Indian man, a woman and a boy with a canoe.
Sivu 8 - College, as it will express the Honour we retain, in this remote Part of the Globe, to the immortal Memory of the glorious King William the Third, who was a Branch of the illustrious House of Nassau...
Sivu 99 - And when the illustrious part that your Excellency has borne in this long and arduous contest becomes matter of history, fame will gather your brightest laurels rather from the banks of the Delaware than from those of the Chesapeake.

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