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...literature is a good-sized world in itself. The mere word "philosophy" stirs the bile of some folks. According to that accomplished humanist-philosopher, George Santayana, it has very largely come to mean "psychology" in the United States. Dean West must remember with delight the distinction attributed to President McCosh: "When two men are talking and one of them understands what the talk is about. that is metapheesics; when neither of them understands it, that is philosophy...
...President Hibben regards as indispensable total an additional endowment of $7,925,000. This includes $1,000,000 to provide for increase in salaries, $800,000 for an increase in preceptorial instructors, $500,000 for scholarships and $3,000,000 for the engineering department. An addition is planned to McCosh Hall which will require...
Greatest Growth Under McCosh...
...administration of James McCosh from 1868 to 1888 is the greatest landmark in the history of Princeton, Whatever shall be the development of the institution, hereafter, it must always be said of James McCosh that, while loyal to the foundation and the history of the college, he, more than any other man, made it a university. Though it was not until after his death that the title of university was given, it should never be forgotten that the university life began in his administration...
...James McCosh, M.A., Edinburgh 1834, D.D., 1851, Hon. Aberdeen 1850, Brown 1868, L.L.D. Dublin, 1863; Harvard, 1868, from...