Word: mccosh
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...McCosh has written the following letter under date of "College of New Jersey, Princeton...
...McCosh received plenty of encouragement to-day. The college town was crowded with Alumni and other friends of the institution, who wished to attend the funeral of Dr. Hodge. Without exception they supported Dr. McCosh in the position he has taken, and if the ears of the Autocrat did not burn to-day, there's no dependence to be placed in the old superstition. - N. Y. Times...
...bitterness in any of the invited guests present; that our Autocrat, the most genial of men, and, surely, the most delicate of satirists, should have been deemed the offender; and that the one to whom offense has been given is Princeton's honored head. We understand that Dr. McCosh is aggrieved over the stanza which we print in another column, over the fact that no Princeton representative received an honorary degree, and over Dr. Brooks' discourse of Sunday night last...
...first two causes are, or should be, easily removable. The offensive lines were not directed at Princeton, as they were interpreted, but at the general consternation now prevailing among sectarian institutions. As for the second complaint, it was impossible twice to bestow a degree upon Dr. McCosh, and Professor Young's absence from the anniversary, we understand, cost...
...McCosh knows, and knew when he accepted the invitation to be present at our quarter-millenium, that Harvard had become the exponent of liberality in religious and secular education; he knew that the experiment had proved a success, or at least, that it had proved an apparent success, both in the increased number of students and the increased wealth and influence of the college. He knew all this as well as any man in America; and of all men in America he was most opposed to, and most afraid of it. It was out of the question, therefore, that...