The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-09-22
-PRINCEFQN'S PROGRESS.
Many Recehe improvements
Greet the Eyes of
the Returning
Students.
OPENING EXERCISES YESTERDAY.
Additions in Progress and Antici-
pation-Changes in Rutgers
Faculty.
OPENING EXERCISES YESTERDAY.
speeial to az Jerseg Citu News.

PRINCETON, Sept. %, lS92.-Again the
Princeton campus has awakened from its
vacation sleep and ~re-echoes once more
with the life of another college yesr.
Alumni aud post-graduates admire its
many recent Improvements, stately
upper class.aen meet with songs aud
hearty greetings. while the ''verdant
freshmen look for the first time with awe
ana admiration at its beauties.
President Patton Returned oU Sa uIday
from Il summers trip IN Europe, ami
seems IN every way streng hened aud
improved by his rest. He mas made II
careful study of the methods of in-
struction employed Mt Oxford and
Cambridge, and intends to give
tue college the benefit of his Increased
experience. EX-Presideut McCosh has
also returned 10 his beautiful home on
Prospect avenue aud his fOurscore years
seem TO weigh lightly on his venerable
shoulders. DIR. Quilted has almost fully
recovered from The severe illness which
caused his friends so much anxiety last
summer. but Will ouly resume par6 of his
former duties as professor OF mathemat-
les. Almost all the other members of the
faculty are at their posts, although Pro-
lessons Sloan aud Cameron, who have
been abroad, are still detained al Quarau-
tine in New YORK.
MORE NEW STUDENTS THAN YER
the number of entering students is
larger this fall than ever before. and will
prJDably reach 295, although The returns
from tue last examinations are not as yet
all in. The total INK of applications
TO date, Including those for preliminary
examinations. is 353. An unusually large
INIT of the last senior class will return
as posl-graduates, 80 that in the college
aud theological Seminary there will be-
at least thirLy-ive members of '92. The
total number of Luaents will therefore
be about LOO. To keep pace with this
great and growing increase new buildings
have been added 10 the campus.
Brown Hail, the new dOrmltory given
by Mrs. Susan Town, of this place. has
been completed at Ii cost of S250, 900, and
is considered even more desirable than
Witherspoon, owing 10 its spacious, COM
Portable rooms and bright, airy Railways.
1t is built in a hollow square. being mod
eled after the Strozzi palace at Florence.
and will accommodate eighty-tive mel.
After the exercises in the chapel yesterday
afternoon the hall was formally opened
with short exercises in the quadrangle of
the building.
Ii FINEST COLLEGE BUILDING.
The work on the Alexander Commence
ment Hall is being rapidly pushed for
ward, and when it is finished il will un-
uoubtedly be the finest college building
in America. The carving around the
great rose window at the front will alone
cost $50, 900. The hall has a seating ca
paclIy of 1900. The houses of Professor
Cornwall and Treasurer Osborn, on Mas
sau street, are to be moved go as to open
an approach from Nassau street. and it is
rumored that the trustees of the First
Presbyterian Churc have at last con-
secuted to sell their building to the college
aud allow its remova from its present
site. The grouud thus acquired will be
graded and thrown luto the campus.
The new buildings for the American
Wing aud Ciiosophic Societies haYe been
completed externally, and little remains
TO be done towards finishing the interior.
They are of white marble, modelled after
the temple of Dtonysius at Telos, aud the
Corinthian columns which support the
porticos are the largest marble monoliths
ever quarried in America.
Work on the Brokaw Memorial Field Is
well under way, and the grading and
draining will probably be flushed this
fall. The natatorium and clubhouse are
also nearly flushed. 1t is rumored that
the Pennsylvania Railroad will move
their station from its Ole position to the
foot Of University place. This would
give a straighter road from the junction
and large freight facilities to tie COM
pary, aud at the same time the road
would vacate a large strip of land which,
it is understood the New York alnmui
will buy ana add TO the Brokaw Field.
The Isabella McCosh Indrmary, situat-
ed directly south of the Presidents
house, has been made ready for occu-
pancy, and the new quarters of the Cot
tage Club are completed. The Princeton
Inn. on the corner of Nassau street and
Bayard avenue. is rapidly becoming a
reality. 1t is to be of yellow brick and
will accommodate 300. The servants
quarters will be in a separate building
directly in the rear. The inn represents
a capital of 500. 600, which has been sub
scribed by prominent alumni In New
York, aud is intended chiefly for the &C.
comuodation of the commencement
guests.
Rutgers College Fall Term OpenA
Special to the Jersey Citv Neacs.
NEW BRUNSWICK. Sept. %, 1892-Rutgers
College opened yesterday with 104 in the
Freshman class. The faculty now con
sists of twenty-nine members. The new
instructor in mathematics is w. E.
Brazil. q graduate of q South Carolina
college; Prof. J. A. Campbell of Brook,
lvn, n. y, Il graduate of Coe College
Ottawa, will take the chair as university
extension lecturer or English literature
9 DIR. A. H. Pepper, who has just arrived
from Paris, will act as instructor in mod
err languages; George M. Mitchell. Rat.
gers '9l, will act as instructor in he clasl
in chemistry; Eugene S. Berts, '92, will
assist in the laboratory as an electrician
Prof. Charles B.. Ames, in the Preparation!
School. succeeds Prof. Newton as Latil
master; Mr.. English will take Mr.. Tur.
toms place, Frank r. Vanhorn o
berg, N. Y, will assist DIR
Chester III mineralogy. aud Prof. R. w
Prentiss has been made full professor Of
mathematics and astronomy.