New-York tribune., 1876-12-19
PRINCETON AGAIN.
ppnrrsr ERnM nID ALIIMNI.

A PROTEST FROM OLD ALUMNI
A MANAGEMENT MERELY FOR MoNEY-sEcoND-
ARILY, MERELY FOR sTUDESTs-sECRET s0cfE-
TIEs-THE PRoFEssoRs-HAs ANYBODY ANY
THING TO sAYf
To me Editor Of The Tribune.
SIR We congratulate DIR. McCosh. He has
at last found champon-one. But where are they the
many among the trustees and alumni who have for six
years encouraged him to pursue policy AGAINST Whch
the older friends OF the college have srenuousy and
constantly protested Is It just for them now to leave
him without one word OF explanation and Gefense They
are needed The defense of W. II. is sadly Insufficient
Besides such as it s it worth more did t come
from volunteer and not from an officer OF tie college,
whose zeal may be quickened by sense Of duty. But
the friends OF the latterday policy are determined to
eave its yndlcaton to the exclusive care Of the treas
urcr OF the college, may we not insist that he shall tell
us what we want to know For six years tue alumni
have had everywhere meet such charges as these that
follow Will w. II. tell US how much truth Is in themf
The charge las been constantly made that the rst on
iect OF the management been to ge money and that
10 this end all other interests Of the college have been
bent and the specifications that the trustees have
given their time to selecting the victims, and then the
president has been pointed to the pursuit. that IN TINS
dubious task he has kept from his post oncourth
OF the term tIme that there cannot be named chdleSs
capitalist in the Presbyterian Church where he has not
been sent dine wine, and beg, nor wealthy maiden
whom he has not visited remind her that Princeton
only needs money to be made worthy Of the sons she
would have sent there had she only married and bad
some.
The charge Is made again that the second object OF the
management TO get studens-o increase the size or
the classes by any mea = Aud the specifications here
are that other time OF the president has been given 10
the still hunt in this direction that like the thrifty pro-
pretor OF private school he has ZeaOusly visited the
mothers Of rich boys and urged them to ntrst their
precious lambs to his keeping on the ground that these
tenderlings should suffer from the rude competition
Of rougher children in The examination, but should be
tenderiy admitted tenderly kept and tenderly grad
uated, and returned at the end of the four years
to their fond mammas; that In pursuance OF such
promises TO anxious mammas the college was deprived
OF secret societies. although large majority OF the
alumni beved that associations which were illustrated
by the membership of Dwight Lowell Storrs, Eyarts,
Waite, Taft, and other names. prominent among our
scholars lawyers and statesmen could not be harmful
That nearly all applicants. whatever their proficiency,
have been admitted the college classes and almost ALL
once ip retained whatever their proficiency, to gradua
on that In short class for six years has passed the
middle of its sophomore year without containing at least
Is members who rejected or dropped at aaie OF
Harvard and that in cases the names OF men VINO
failed TO keep up at New-Hayen and Cambridge are
found among those who in catalogues of Princeton are
mentioned az bearing the hOnOT5 OF that college.
And finally It Is charged, that the reason OF low
standard and poor scholarship is that there are not
enough OF competent instructors And the specifications
mere are that glance at the list of instructors shows
very few men who have any reputation Tor schOiasmp
or ability and that the lack OF instruction Is SO paabe
bot mis- very year committee OF the students took he
matter in their own hands, ard in cGse went SO far
ms 10 ask one incompetent TEACHER TO resign Now VIII
W H-aince no other shows the slightest WILING
ness 10 defend the present management tell those O us
who preferred the quiet but scholarly ana sensible
rene OF Mclean and Atwatcr, tell us what truth there
is m charges that made, wherever the higher euca-
on is discussed and listened to with great pain Dy
many OF the oLDhh ALUMNI
Phlladelphid, Dec. Is, 1876.