CHAPTER V 



PRINCETON 



PRINCETON COLLEGE in 1874 and 1875 presented 

 a very different appearance from the university 

 of to-day. A glance at the conditions at that time 

 may prove of interest. 



The buildings on the campus were Old North 

 or Nassau Hall, the chapel directly to the left 

 as one faces it, and a little beyond the Chancellor 

 Green Library, just opened. Dickinson Hall too 

 had been finished but recently, and the final work 

 on the original part of the School of Science was 

 being completed. Back of Old North, East and 

 West Colleges formed the sides, and the two halls 

 Whig and Clio the other face of the quadrangle. 

 Reunion Hall looked very much as it does to-day, 

 only newer. Going west, the next building was 

 the new gymnasium, and beyond it the Halstead 

 Observatory. These buildings, and one other 

 (that now used as the university offices) were all 

 that then occupied the campus. The president's 

 house was the one now used by the dean, and here 

 I had my formal introduction to Dr. McCosh. 



Stately elms and other fine shade trees formed 



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