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...curriculum, the trustees were arranging for the permanent location of the college. Newark was too near New York to satisfy the trustees residing in Pennsylvania, so they voted in 1750 "that a proposal be made to the towns of New Brunswick and Princeton to try what sum of money they could raise for the building of the college by the next meeting, that the trustees may be better able to judge in which of these places to fix the college." In September, 1752, they voted that the college be fixed in Princeton and ground was broken there in 1754. Soon...
...have good public education we must have co-operation between scholars on the one hand and practical men on the other; the scholars to decide how things can be taught, the practical men to determine how the money available for the purpose can be spent so as to give the largest possible returns. To have good public administration we must unite our efforts and powers in the same way. We must utilize the researches of the scientific expert of every kind, physicist or chemist, physician or engineer, jurist or statistician; but we must have this work directed and organized...
...avowedly intended to keep up high prices and restrict the one thing which would do everybody the most good, foreign trade. Read the recent full page advertisements in the New York papers and see what th real issue is that the men behind Hughes are willing to pay hard money for; you will find nothing but a plain, unvarnished appeal to the provincial American's pocket-book. High tariff! Business profits...
...crass materialism," of their native land. The younger they are, the more educated they are, the longer they have sojourned abroad, in so much greater measure is their contempt voiced, till it has become almost the mark of culture and broad-mindedness to hold in contempt the nation's money, lust, and laud to the point of idolization the noble principles and the high ideals of Europe. It is always easy to find the commonplace in that which a man knows, and to see in that which he does not know glamor and super-material beauty. Burdened...
...Fugio" coin was found in front of Hollis Hall, but the other piece of money and the key were dug up near Sever Hall. The latter find is probably not very old, although there is nothing about it upon which to base a surmise of its age. It is modern in appearance, and does not seem to be corroded by rust to any great extent. The key is nothing unusual in appearance...