
          very severe contest and they now
expect that I will continue at
my post until all danger, as to the
future course of  the establishment
under their care, is passed. Were I
to leave the Institution just now the
probability is that it would fall into the
hands of selfish and designing individuals
and that much which has been done
would be undone I wish to give
the Institution such a start in
the right directiohn that it cannot
deviate from it without attracting
the attention of the public. Still I
connot give up the idea of returning
to Princeton and of assuming the quiet
and tranquile life I had there but
this may be but a [?] hope never
to be realized. 'There is a destiny which
shapes our ends rough hew them as we
may"
        