The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-10-06
CROWDED PRINCETON.
More Room and More Money Wanted
to Meet the Rush of
Students.
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PRINCETON. Oct. 6, 1S91.-There are
three hundred men in the class of 1895.
There are more than of any Freshman
class that ever passed the examination
before
There are Thousand students in the
college. Nearly nine hundred of them
are in the regular classes, and the re-
mainder are postgraduate and special
students. Even a Freshman can see that
the college Is overcrowded; that Is, that
the rush to Princeton has so far ex-
ceeded expectations that the college has
got behind in its buildings and pre-
parations for students. In fact, the Stu
alton was painfully apparent to the new
students. Although there have been
many new dormitories, there are fully
three hundred students who cannot find
room in the college, and have been forced
to seek accommodations in the town.
Every house in town where room can be
hired Is full, and some of the boys are not
at all comfortably fixed, while nearly all
are paying rates that would have been
called eXtortiOn dozen years ago. The
college trustees promise to rush up new
6ormitories as rapidly rs possible. and as
dormitories are profitable Investments to
the institution, there will be no unneces-
sary delay. They are said to be the only
financially profitable Investment made
all the other expenses, investments in ap-
pliances, in new meeting halls, etc., repre-
senting not only large nrst cost, loss OF in
terest but considerable yearly expendi-
ture in the way of repairs, insurance and
attendance.
MARQUAND CHAPEL TOO SMALL.
Another problem due to the crowd of
students must be solved. Marquand
chapel, a beautiful building, is too small.
Built when the college had about 500
students. with accommodations for about
700, the present great body of students
cannot be crowded into it. What is to be
done nobody can tell. College without
chapel would be queer thing, and what
the boys are to do Sunday afternoons
when President Patton breaches is a puz-
Zler Tine chapel is built on plan that
will admit of no enlargement, aud new
chapel would cost heavily. The only
hope at present is that some of the "rich
friends" of whom DR.. McCosh used to say
SO much, will come forward with a finan-
cial solution.
1t necessary to increase the number OF
instructors, ana the young men are
getting their chance of promotion rap
idly.
THE COLLEGE GROUNDS.
The college is a far more beautiful
place than ever before. but it will be
vastly improved this year by sweeping
away many Of the buildings on the street
between the college grounds and the
highway. There is plenty of room, and
the authorities have done a wise and
beneficent act in employing frederick
Law Olmstead, the great landscape gar
dener, to plan further improvements in
the grounds locate sites for new build
ings, and, in short, provide a general
scheme for making the college site all
that it should be by improving natural
| advantages. AS the college grows it
monopolizes more and more of Princeton
borough, and the benefits that follow are
considerable. The students are kept un-
der better control, there are fewer tempt
ations aud there are none of the unpleas-
ant difficulties with local authorities
which trouble the faculty OF other
institutions.