. Princeton sketches : the story of Nassau Hall. theother seats. The floor was covered with an expensivecarpet. The window curtains were of white dimity andred damask. A chandelier was suspended by iron chainsfrom the centre of the curved ceiling, and lustres hungaround the walls, with glass lamps in the sockets. Thewalls were covered with velvet paper of a beautifulpattern. The room in summer was unpleasantly hot,the ventilation being very imperfect, and when the mem-bership increased it became almost intolerable. ... Tocrown all, the roof leaked badly. The quarters of Whig, across the hall,
. Princeton sketches : the story of Nassau Hall. theother seats. The floor was covered with an expensivecarpet. The window curtains were of white dimity andred damask. A chandelier was suspended by iron chainsfrom the centre of the curved ceiling, and lustres hungaround the walls, with glass lamps in the sockets. Thewalls were covered with velvet paper of a beautifulpattern. The room in summer was unpleasantly hot,the ventilation being very imperfect, and when the mem-bership increased it became almost intolerable. ... Tocrown all, the roof leaked badly. The quarters of Whig, across the hall, doubt-less shared with those of Clio both the eleganceand the discomforts of this description. 1838 is writ large in the histories of the that year they moved into those beautifulGreek temples which live in the memories ofthe alumni of more than fifty years. Theywere in the Ionic style. The columns of thehexastyle porticos are copied from those of atemple on the Ilissus, near the fountain ofCallirhoe in Athens. The temple of Dionysus,. THE HALLS. 69 in the Ionian city of Teos, furnished a modelfor the buildings in other respects. Elegantlyfurnished and equipped with good libraries,these halls formed in many respects the centreof college life. In them, generations of menhave passed through the metamorphosis fromstammering and blushing freshmen to suave andeloquent seniors, and then gone forth to honortheir halls in the pulpit and at the bar. Thou-sands of alumni cherish in the tenderest cornerof their hearts, memories of long hours spentin the recesses of the old libraries, of life-longfriendships formed within those mysteriousdoors, and of exciting crises on the floors, whenthe gray-haired ministers and learned judges ofto-day were compassing heaven and earth tocarry a motion of adjournment or bending alltheir energies to entangle their President in themeshes of parliamentary law. The old halls have gone. They had becomeinadequate to the growing needs of the college,an
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