. Princeton sketches. The story of Nassau hall . w collegians took little or no noticeof him. He made few friends, and lived theretired and uneventful life of a student. Thelanguages he acquired with difficulty, but earlyin his course the fascinating problems of phi-losophy took possession of his mind. He hadalso an insatiable appetite for miscellaneousreading, devoured the works of Scott and Byronas they came out, and roused the anger of asomewhat choleric librarian by insisting on hav-ing new books immediately upon their publica-tion. His mind developed slowly, and, owingto his extreme youth
. Princeton sketches. The story of Nassau hall . w collegians took little or no noticeof him. He made few friends, and lived theretired and uneventful life of a student. Thelanguages he acquired with difficulty, but earlyin his course the fascinating problems of phi-losophy took possession of his mind. He hadalso an insatiable appetite for miscellaneousreading, devoured the works of Scott and Byronas they came out, and roused the anger of asomewhat choleric librarian by insisting on hav-ing new books immediately upon their publica-tion. His mind developed slowly, and, owingto his extreme youth, he did not succeed insurpassing the leading students, although main-taining an honorable rank. He left GLisgow,he says, without a professor or fellow-studentimagining that he would ever reach any distinc-tion. He was a Scotchman, and could keep hisown counsel, but built into the rugged gi-aniteof liis character was the unexpressed thoughtand purpose that ^ I would one day hold myplace with the best of them, provided persever-ance could do PRESIDENT MCCOSH. ADMINISTRATION OF JAMES McCOSII. 105 111 the fall of 1829 James McCosb, drawn bythe name of Thomas Chalmers, ^\•ellt to Edin-burgh, where he pursued a divinity course forfive years. The personal force of this greatteacher, the richness of his thought and the imj^et-uosity of his elo(juence, made a deep impressionon the student from Glasgow, and in later lifehe expressed the opinion that Chalmers was,w\>*d\\ the whole, the greatest man he had metwith. Those were the golden days of Edin-burgh, when John Leslie and Sir AVilliam Ham-ilton were delivering their lectures, when theredoubtable Francis Jeffrey was training theguns of the Edinburgh Keview, and the greatunknown was entertaining the world w^ith hisWaverley Novels. Edinburgh did not requireas much commonplace daily study as Glasgow,but the atmosphere of the place ^vas literary andphilosophical, and under its genial influence theripening powers of the future me
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