. Princeton sketches : the story of Nassau Hall. ription beareloquent testimony to the affectionate regardwhich he inspired : O infandum sui Desiderium Gemit Ecclesia, plorat Acaderaia ; Ait Coelum plaudit, dum ille Ingreditur In Gaudiiim Domini. 29 30 PRINCE TON SKE TCHES. For the next decade a singular fatality seemedto hang over the presidential office. JonathanEdwards was called from Massachusetts, andtook charge of the college in January, had just crowned his reputation as apulpit orator and thinker by publishing his treatise on The Free-dom of the Will,which gave hima place at on
. Princeton sketches : the story of Nassau Hall. ription beareloquent testimony to the affectionate regardwhich he inspired : O infandum sui Desiderium Gemit Ecclesia, plorat Acaderaia ; Ait Coelum plaudit, dum ille Ingreditur In Gaudiiim Domini. 29 30 PRINCE TON SKE TCHES. For the next decade a singular fatality seemedto hang over the presidential office. JonathanEdwards was called from Massachusetts, andtook charge of the college in January, had just crowned his reputation as apulpit orator and thinker by publishing his treatise on The Free-dom of the Will,which gave hima place at onceamong the firstphilosophers ofthe world, andwhich still holdsits position asthe greatest met-aphysical workAmerica has pro-duced. Duringthe few monthshis term hiscourse with theSenior class produced so profound an impressionthat they spoke of it with the greatest satis-faction and wonder. He had just begun hisadministration under the happiest auspices,when an unsuccessful inoculation brought on adisease from which he died on the 22d of PRESIDENT JONATHAN EDWARDS.
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