Word: princeton
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Acta Columbiana has a correspondent in Princeton who has but one trait that is praiseworthy. He is modest, although his command of the English language is limited. He fills five columns with trivial events of life at Princeton, and concludes: "I hope that those who have a poor opinion of the College from reading this letter will lay the blame to the writer." We shall take him at his word...
...death of the late Judge Elbert Herring, in which the deceased gentleman, who was more than ninety years of age, is eulogized for having "held many positions of trust, and reflected honor on the Cliorophic Society," - a local society of which he was a member while connected with the Princeton class...
...PRINCETON and Yale are experiencing the effects of the extraordinary religious revival which was started in England by Messrs. Moody and Sankey. The former College was the first in which religious enthusiasm showed itself, and the movement still retains such force there that a recent observer is said to have counted nine prayer-meetings in progress at one time, in a dormitory or an entry which contained but fourteen rooms. A Rev. Dr. Taylor, soon after the revival had begun at Princeton, addressed the Yale undergraduates, and aroused in them an enthusiasm which the labors of two missionaries from Princeton...
...temptation to say a few words on this matter, especially as it has occupied so much space in our recent exchanges. Religious feeling cannot be criticised and judged like other things; yet, although the semi-familiar manner in which religious matters are referred to in the Yale and Princeton papers would not be surprising in ignorant revivalists, it seems a little extraordinary in people who proclaim themselves to be "cultivated Christians." And the object of the revival appears to be simply belief. The revivalists of to-day, like those of the camp-meetings of twenty years...
...PRINCETON has had such a revival, and the present condition of society there appears to be not unlike that prevalent in England during the earlier years of the Commonwealth. "Prayer-meetings," says the Nassau Lit, "are no longer dull, but fervid." The influence of religion is felt in the "recitation-room, where "spiritual interest .... transforms duty into pleasure." It is felt in the shape of "increased earnestness in base-ball matters," in the gymnasium," and in the training requisite for various athletic sports. Drinking has vanished from "spreads." Profanity, which is "not so much an amusement as a habit...