. Princeton sketches : the story of Nassau Hall. , drinkdeep, and fear nothing. At one time there wereonly twelve students who acknowledged theiradherence to the old faith, and even so late as1841, when the venerable Dr. Theodore Cuylerwas an undergraduate, the little band of Chris-tians were dubbed the religiosi, and met in alittle room in the top of Old North. When we remember, too, that good prepara-tory schools were rare then, and the men incollege were, as a rule, much older than theyare now, it will not seem strange that theenforcement of proper regulations was no easytask. After the 20s
. Princeton sketches : the story of Nassau Hall. , drinkdeep, and fear nothing. At one time there wereonly twelve students who acknowledged theiradherence to the old faith, and even so late as1841, when the venerable Dr. Theodore Cuylerwas an undergraduate, the little band of Chris-tians were dubbed the religiosi, and met in alittle room in the top of Old North. When we remember, too, that good prepara-tory schools were rare then, and the men incollege were, as a rule, much older than theyare now, it will not seem strange that theenforcement of proper regulations was no easytask. After the 20s, the spirit of disorder graduallysubsided, and during the peaceful reigns ofPresidents Carnahan and Maclean, the collegegathered strength for the brilliant universityera which was heralded by the inauguration ofDr. McCosh, in 1868. Washington Irvings published works giveus a glimpse of the student life under , as it appeared to the genial writer forSalmagundi. Under date of February 24,1807,appears Memorandums for a Tour to be Entitled. ANTE BELLUM. * The Stranger in New Jersey; or, CockneyTravelling. Chapter IV is outlined as follows : Princeton—college—professors wear boots !—studentsfamous for their love of a jest—set the college on fire andburned out the professors ; an excellent joke, but notworth repeating—Mem. American students very muchaddicted to burning down colleges—reminds me of a goodstory, nothing at all to the purpose—two societies in thecollege—good notion—encourages emulation, and makeslittle boys fight ;—students famous for their eating anderudition—saw two at the tavern, who had just got theirallowance of spending money—laid it all out in a supper, got fuddled, and d d the professors for nincoms, n. b. Southern gentlemen . . commencement—studentsgive a ball and supper—company from New York, Phila-delphia and Albany—great contest which spoke the bestEnglish . . students cant dance—always set offwith the wrong foot forem
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