. Princeton sketches. The story of Nassau hall . Citizen inTime of AVar. By permission of the Faculty,changes were made which gave it a personalreference, and the future Major-General was ableto understand how Washington felt under asimilar ordeal, thirty-one years before. The commencement of that day had a pic-turesque accompaniment, which reminds one ofan old harvest festival in Merrie Englande. Thecrops were all garnered, and the country folk formiles around flocked to the town to see the dis-tinguished visitors and celebrate the end of an-other seasons toil. The street in front of thecolle
. Princeton sketches. The story of Nassau hall . Citizen inTime of AVar. By permission of the Faculty,changes were made which gave it a personalreference, and the future Major-General was ableto understand how Washington felt under asimilar ordeal, thirty-one years before. The commencement of that day had a pic-turesque accompaniment, which reminds one ofan old harvest festival in Merrie Englande. Thecrops were all garnered, and the country folk formiles around flocked to the town to see the dis-tinguished visitors and celebrate the end of an-other seasons toil. The street in front of thecollege and the church where commencement ex-ercises were held resembled a county fair. Hun-dreds of men, women, and children surroundedthe booths, tables, and wagons, where venderspraised the virtues of their cheap wares, or com-forted the crowd with cider and small beer. Atintervals the street was rapidly cleared, andtumultuous cheers greeted a bunch of pantinghorses as they dashed down the highway for thelocal sweepstakes. Boys and men played for. ?<i^x. ANTE BELLUM. 95 pennies, fiddleis scraped away while robustcouples danced the country jigs. On one occa-sion the venerable old cannon back of Northwas forced to be party to a bull-baiting. Theunfoitunate brute was fastened by the horns tothe Kevolutionary veteran, and worried by apack of dogs, to the great delectation of a largeand appreciative assemblage. This annual saturnalia was naturally exces-sively annoying to the college authorities, andso early as 1807 we find the Board passing thefollowing resolution: Resolved, That no person whatever be permitted toerect any booth, or fix any wagon for selling liquor orother refreshment on the day of Commencement on theground of the College, except on that part of the road tothe eastward of the middle gate of the front Campus, andthat this Board will pay the expense of carrying this reso-lution into effect. It was largely in order to escape these un-happy accompaniments, that the da
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