. Princeton sketches : the story of Nassau Hall. he church, the candidates walking is an eles-ant oration in the Latintongue by the President, there are learneddisputations in Latin by the candidates, anaddress by the Orator Salutatorius, delivered in a modest and decent manner, not to mentionother imposing ceremonies, before the degreesare conferred, all which being performed tothe great satisfaction of all present. His Excel-lency, witli the Trustees and Scholars, returnedto the house of the President in the order ob-served in the morning. About two years before, on the 22d o
. Princeton sketches : the story of Nassau Hall. he church, the candidates walking is an eles-ant oration in the Latintongue by the President, there are learneddisputations in Latin by the candidates, anaddress by the Orator Salutatorius, delivered in a modest and decent manner, not to mentionother imposing ceremonies, before the degreesare conferred, all which being performed tothe great satisfaction of all present. His Excel-lency, witli the Trustees and Scholars, returnedto the house of the President in the order ob-served in the morning. About two years before, on the 22d of Octo-ber, 1746, the first charter of the college passedthe Grreat Seal and was attested by John Ham-ilton, Esq., President of His Majestys Counciland Commander-in-Chief of the Province ofNew Jersey. Although the grants under thisinstrument do not seem to have been perfectly IN GOOD OLD COLONY DAYS. satisfactory, the Trustees proceeded at ouce toelect the Rev. Jonathan Dickinson President ofthe infant institution, and the first term bei>-an. PRESIDENT JONATHAN DICKINSON. on the fourth week of May, 1747. We do notknow how many students gathered at ElizabethTown to enjoy the instructions of the Presidentand his assistant, but the probability is that PRINCETON SKETCHES. there were about twenty. For some years, had been conducting an uncharteredschool for young men, which accounts for thefact that there was a class ready to receive de-grees one year after the founding of the the more venerable universities of Europe,Princeton began with instructors instead ofbuildino-s, and the home of the President wasthe home of the institution. President Dickinson was a man of remarkableenergy and ability. Besides performing hisduties as President, he was minister of a largeparish and a practising physician of some man was more influential than he in found-ing the college, and the prestige of his greatname as a preacher and controversialist, both inthis co
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