. Princeton sketches. The story of Nassau hall . o the affectionate regardwhich he inspired : O infandum sui Desiderium Gemit Ecclesia, plorat Academia ; Ait Coelum plaudit, dum ille Ingreditur In Gaudium Domini. 29 30 PRINCETOl^ SKETCHES. 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
. Princeton sketches. The story of Nassau hall . o the affectionate regardwhich he inspired : O infandum sui Desiderium Gemit Ecclesia, plorat Academia ; Ait Coelum plaudit, dum ille Ingreditur In Gaudium Domini. 29 30 PRINCETOl^ SKETCHES. 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, andw^hich still holdsits position asthe greatest met-aphysical workAmerica has pro-duced. Duringthe few monthshis term his PRESIDENT JONATHAN EDWARDS. (^Qlirse witll tllP Senior 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
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