The remainder of Senior year passed with dizzy speed; every moment 

 of my time seemed to have been taken up and, as if I had not enough to 

 do, Henry van Dyke and Allan Marquand set me to compiling statistics 

 for the Princeton Boo/{. Propaganda for the expedition took up much 

 time and thought and hard labour; we capitalized the attack upon 

 Princeton which the New York Tribune was carrying on that winter 

 and declared that such an expedition would be the best answer to the 

 calumnies. What lay behind that attack and who engineered it, I never 

 learned, but one of the participating elements was obvious enough and 

 that was the strong anti-McCosh party of the New York alumni, who 

 had been offended by the President's want of courtesy toward them. 

 Others disliked the old Doctor's boastfulness about the wonderful prog- 

 ress which "me college" had been making under his administration, 

 which involved, and not always by implication merely, a criticism of his 

 predecessor. Dr. McLean. 



This boastfulness was not, I believe, egotistical at all, but a well cal- 

 culated scheme of advertising and what is now called publicity, but it 

 was not always carried out with tact. In the attempt to raise funds for 

 the expedition, I wrote a solicitation to a prominent New York alumnus, 

 telling him that the project was very close to Dr. Guyot's heart. He 

 replied that he would greatly like to contribute to a plan strongly 

 favoured by Dr. Guyot, but that while Dr. McCosh remained President, 

 he would not give a cent. This party of the New York alumni was, by 

 no means, the whole story in the anti-Princeton movement, but I do 

 not definitely know who constituted the other elements in the attack; I 

 have certain very shrewd suspicions, but no proof. 



This was the first of a series of attacks upon Princeton which recurred, 

 at intervals, for many years and culminated in the great battle of 

 President Wilson's time. These will be noticed in proper chronological 

 order; here I shall merely state that most of them so far succeeded as to 

 retard the growth and development of Princeton for a generation. No 

 other college was so persistently maligned and calumniated and the 

 whole movement is very mysterious. Internal quarrels, unfortunate but 

 not really important, inflated to portentous size by newspaper men- 

 dacity, the touchy vanity of certain trustees and the malice of rivals all 

 contributed to the deplorable result. We seem now to have outgrown 

 that sort of thing. 



I have mentioned my attempts to raise money for the expedition. This 

 was the beginning of my long and shameless career of mendicancy, 

 which has not entirely come to an end even yet. I have been compelled 



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