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Princeton College.

A young friend, now a student ut
Princeton College, N. j., sends us the
following abstract of the address Of
President McCosh, made at the opening
of the session, which sets forth the con-
dition and prospects of the college, and
the efforts which are being made to rem
der this one of the most popular and
best endowed Of American colleges.
DR.. McCosh is one of the most distin-
guished of modern metaphysicians, a
profound scholar and renowned au-
thor, and his administration at Prince
ton has given new, impetus to the
college as we'll as to the cause Of educa-
ton in this community: .=
Princeton College was opened Sep
tember the Sth by an address from the
President We give the substance of
it: '.. 80
Psychologists tell us that in seven
years every particle of the matterin the
body is renewed. Now l have been
seven years in this place, and I feel as
If I had become thoroughly an Ameri-
can. During these seven years I have
become identified out and out with
Princeton College. It has occurred to
me that might open this 10th year OF
the College by q brief account of the
progress which the College has made
since came here. In doing SO you will
understand that am not claiming any
merit to myself. The credit belongs to
those friends who by the wisdom of
their counsels and their generous bene-
factions have sustained our institution.
All that claim, and make the same
claim for my colleagues in the Faculty,
is, that we have devoted ourselves thor
Oughly to our work. First of all we
have received in all about 81 ,250, 900 in
the shape of donations. The number of
our buildings has been about doubled,
and some of these are not surpassed in
beauty by any built Of late years in this
country. We have two fine museums,
one in Natural History and one in geol-
ogy, the latter a perfect gem. We are
adding $4,000 worth of books p year to
our.li6rary. We have added six new
professorships, including one in Civil
Engineering, and twelve new branches
of study in the various departments Of
Literature and Science. We have been
gradually but most effectually raising
our standing at the entrance examina-
ton, and at the semi-annual and annual
examinations. We allow selection of
studies within proper limits in the
Junior and Senior years, and thus in
duce students to follow their personal
tastes. We have al extensive system
of Fellowships and Prizes to which we
devote $4,000 a year and thus seek to en-
courage higher learning. We have also
between half a dozen and dozen stu
dents pursuing after they have gradua-
ted, higher studies here in Princeton,
or more frequently in Germany, under
our superintendaEce. BY this We hope
to produce scholars to match those who
come out from the great universities OF
Europe. ! do not see why we may not
call,forth as erudite men as they do in OK
ford, Cambridge, Berlin and Edinburg.
Some Of US had a fear tuat i'll conse-
quence of our raising our standard that
the number of our studeats would
diminish. No such effect has followed.
On the contrary many teachers and pa
rents have resolved to countenance US
inst because we are raising the schol-
arship. We cannot tell what our at
tendance will be this year, as students
are still coming in. But already ia new
students have applied for entrance: l29
Freshmen, II Sophomores, 10 Juniors,
/ Senior and % in the school of science.
For myself look on these things as but
the beginning of what we contemplate
for the good Of this institution. We
need halfa million more money to carry
out our plans. l do not know where it
is to come from, but l believe we will
get it somewhere. We need one or two
additional professorships and an addi-
tonal tutor in the old branches, and we
need new departments to be added from
time to time. Hitherto we have been
devoting the money placed at our dis
posal very largely to buildings. wish
the people to understand that any dona-
tions placed at our disposal should now
he employed to further the grand end of
the college,-the direct promotion of
learning. In particular ! am anxious,
if funds are placed at our disposal, to Or
ganize our Fellowship system more
thoroughly, so as to call forth talent and
learning Of the highest order. Mean
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ken Fellowships to be brought into 4
closer connection with our College. /
have arranged that one of our Fellows
J. p. Kennedy Bryan of Charleston s.
G.. who has been two years in Germany
give lecture in our College on the la
ter phases of the German philosophy
and its relation to science, AMI that an
other. who was on the staff of the
American observers OF the transit Of
Venus give an account to the School Of
Science, of what he saw.
Iron-clads seem to be doomed just
now to frequent misfortune. 1t is not
long since q British vessel, the Nall-
guard, was sunk, and now we have the
report of the burnin. and explosion OF
the French ship Magenta.
REMEDY FOR Hoo CHoLERA.-An cH-
change says black pepper is good remedy
for hog cholera. The pepper should he
ground and about tablespoonful given i'll
slop once day. This is 4 simple rcncdE,
and can be easily tried.
A Denver boy pulled the bung out Of a
beer barrel and stuck in his thumb, the
barrel rolled and broke the thumb so bad