National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-01-04
PRINCETON COLLEG Il.


What is Being Done at Princeton.
We have Just received the latest catalogue
of Princeton College, which contains many
items of interest to the Washington alumni.
This venerable institution, against whose
walls the British batteries spent their fury in
Revolutionary days, and now, in its 1921 year,
seems to gain new strength and vigor with
added age.
The number of students in the various de-
partments of the college has already risen to
the number of 1876, of whom fifteen are from
our own District, and this number is being
largely increased each year.
| Under the wise and iudicious management
of harmonious faculty, headed by that tall
cnted man and ceaseless worker, DIR. James
| MCCosh, q number of fine buildings have
sprung up as by magic. In place of ill-venti-
lated, badly lighted accommodations, now aud
spacious "dormitories" have been erected,
heated by steam and illuminated by gas. A
college hotel, perfect In all its appointments,
has been erected, at which visitors to the com
moncement aud occasional exercises of the col
cge can secure comfortable quarters.
A beautiful library building has been com
petcd which Is being rapidly filled with
choice aud varied collection of books in all the
departments of literature, science, and art un-
der the capable supervision of Mr. Frederick
Nnton, formerly of the Congressional Library.
The museum of natural history, embracing
zoology and botany. has been furnished with
superior accommodations in the new school OF
science building, than which there is perhaps
no finer college cdiflcc Of its kind More than
1000 rare collections of fishes insects, and
crustaceous from Soenhoien. Bavaria, aud
Australia have been purchased during the past
year, and placed in the museum. To this add
the large donations from various portions of
our own country-notably from the oXpcdi-
tons of Professor Hayden and the scientific
explorations of the college in 1877 and 1873
and you have museum of which the college
may Justly be proud. Here, too, are splendid
geological and botanical specimens, fossils,
skeletons, aud restorations of pre- histotic aui-
mails in such abundance and variety rs to ma
tcrially aid the student of geology and COM
parative anatomy.
New labatories for chemical experiment
have been fitted up and supplied with superior
apparatus. An excellent herbanium has been
established for the lover of botany, and uumer-
Gus lecturerooms fitted up, in which the stu
dent aud professor may meet each other in
comfort and quiet
The observatory General Ualsted's gift has
been equipped with an equatorial (by Clark of
nine aud - half inches aperature, and is pro-
vided besides with spcctroscopc and other ac-
cessories. These, with tho various astronom-
cal instruments and library, are all under the
skilful management OF Professor Young, an ac-
QUESTION of which the college may well feel
; proud and TO whom Professor Proctor alluded
in such ilattering terms in one of his recent
lectures in this city. There is II spacious and
tasteful chapel, in which the religious exercises
of the college are held and those who were
once compelled to listen TO the inharn0nous
sound of the old organ will be pleased to know
; that good instrument has been presented to
! the college,
| The Philadephian Society, an organization
= resembling our Young Mems Christian Associ-
= alton, has been furnished with CUmmodious
rooms and is the nucleus of the various class
prayer meetings. There is a superior gymna-
stun. perhaps the finest in the country, well
ordered in all It's appointments, and presided
over by George Goldic a man well able to in
| spiro enthusiasm in athletic sports and cxer-
. cises
The faculty has been strengthened and aug
mcntcd by the erection Of such new chairs nc
. those of Natural History, Physics, Civil Engi-
f neering and Architecture, and Continental
Languages and Literature. These professor
ships are adorned by men of positive ability in
their various branches, and seem cmneutly
g fitted for CompaniOnship with Drs MCCosb
, Arnold GuyOt, Stephen Alexander, and the
OTTER brilliant intelecis, which during the
: past years have guided and directed the course
= OF scholarship at Princeton.
n In addition to the academic department
-, there has been established n School of Science
whose object it is to furnish education in sci
II ence and applied art, especial attention being
n paid to architecture and civil engineering
4 During the latter two years of the cOlleg,
- course an opportunity is afforded students t
d select Il certain portion of their studies aud
c thus follow, to certain extent, their natural
i bent. Add to this the system of felowships
y and prizes in all the departments of scholar
u ship and we can readily seq that the student
y has before him wonderful incentives for work
4 A post graduate course has also been opened
for the further education of those who desire
J. TO pursue study beyond the regular curricu
C lum. There is u preparatory school connected
G with aud under the supervision OF, the col
!, lege, in which students are trained with spe
II cial reference to the academic course.
s In short, those who knew the NASSAU Hall
: of even ten years ago, would scarcely recog
q nizc her to-day rs she sits in her new glory
y With fresh scholarship added to her faculty
C large donations from generous friends, and new
d incentives quickening the pulses OF her stu
i dents, inay she long continue to hold her plac
| in, l,a mt rank nI American polln0ps