. Princeton sketches : the story of Nassau Hall. ight go on indefinitely. But a complete nar-ration of the whole medley of events whichmake up our varied existence would still failto give its essence, the indefinable charm of thatspirit which lingers about Nassau Hall andsheds its influence over all the petty incidentsof college life. We feel it when, in those inex-tricable groups where every one seems to bereclining on every one else, we lie on the grassand listen to the Senior singing; it creeps overus when we stroll about the campus under thestars; it comes down with the moonbeamsthrough th
. Princeton sketches : the story of Nassau Hall. ight go on indefinitely. But a complete nar-ration of the whole medley of events whichmake up our varied existence would still failto give its essence, the indefinable charm of thatspirit which lingers about Nassau Hall andsheds its influence over all the petty incidentsof college life. We feel it when, in those inex-tricable groups where every one seems to bereclining on every one else, we lie on the grassand listen to the Senior singing; it creeps overus when we stroll about the campus under thestars; it comes down with the moonbeamsthrough the leaves of the whispering elms; andin after years, when the glad freedom of under-graduate life is past, and the whilom collegeboy has become a grave alumnus, and is pullingsteadily in the traces on the dusty highway oflife, betimes in day-dreams will come a fragrantbreeze and the murmuring of elm leaves, andthe eye of the grave alumnus will , he says, it is a breath from the old campus,and in it whispers the spirit of Nassau VIII. THE PRINCETON IDEA. In the eyes of many good people, Princetonstands for conservatism. It is doubtful whethermost of them could tell just what this means,but on the whole there is a hazy idea that herethings are not done just as the rest of the worlddoes them. There is au impression that some-where on the campus is the spot where JonathanEdwards stamped his iron heel, and that thissacred indentation is the fetich of every trueson of Nassau Hall. To a Princeton man whoreally knows his Alma Mater and appieciatesher spirit, all this is sufficiently amusing. Toone who is in the strong, full current of under-graduate life, or who has felt the ardent andprogressive spirit which dominates the Facultyin the work of the various departments, or inthe more general concerns of college policy, thecharge that Princeton is not in sympathy withmodern progress can only provoke a smile. And yet there is a sense in which Princeton179 l80 PRINCETON S
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