loss. Nowadays, almost everything is factory-made and the craftsman 

 does only repair work. 



This account of the Princeton sixty or seventy years ago seems to 

 indicate very primitive and backward conditions and might easily mis- 

 lead one into thinking that the little town was then far less civilized 

 than it really was. It must be remembered that, throughout the United 

 States, except in New England, city and town government was thor- 

 oughly disgraceful. The paving and cleaning of the large cities was 

 unspeakably bad and Princeton was backward, just as the whole coun- 

 try was backward. It is a truism to say that what really counts in a 

 community is its men and women and, in that respect, Princeton need 

 not have feared comparison with any other place, American or 

 European. 



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