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of the character to call itself, as it has long been called, a university.
Finally however, its friends began to press for a change of name, and as the institution was approaching its one hundred and fiftieth birthday, it was determined to make that birthday significant of all that had been accomplished and all that it was hoped to accomplish in the future. To that end, the wealthy alumni who had already done so much were solicited to do yet more, that in addition to buildings a new endowment might be secured for the enlarging of the library, the establishing of needed professorships, and the founding of fellowships and scholarship for the further encouragement of graduate study. The less wealthy alumni were invited to contribute their presence at the ceremonies attending the formal dedication of Prince ton as a university; invitations were sent far and wide to the scholars of America and those distinguished in other lands; and an elaborate and stately ceremonial was arranged, in keeping with the traditions of an institution whose history has to do with the aristocracy of the Old World as well as the democracy of the New. So it came to pass that our own University sent to grace the celebration its representative scholar, while another of its members, a humble alumnus of Princeton, yielded to the pressure brought to bear upon all alumni, packed his valise, and followed hard after; but not hard enough to reach the scene before the beginning of the second of the three days of festivity: the first day having been given to a religious service with a sermon by President Patton, and the reception of delegates from other institutions with speeches by distinguished foreigners.
The second day was certainly the democratic day, if such a distinction is in order. The writer had established his quarters in a city ten miles from Princeton, and to secure a seat in any train bound Princeton way was well-nigh impossible. Everybody was going; but it was not such a company of the youthful and hilarious as I had been accustomed to see on trains at Commencement time, or at the great football games. The hilarity was there, but more subdued than formerly; and the heads were often tray and sometimes white as snow. These gold-badges meant, not McKinley, but often thatumni who graduated thirty, forty, fifty, and sixty years ago were renewing their youth the old college was doing. Some of these men had come from the opposite side of the brothers had lived perhaps a quarter of a almost in sight of Nassau Hall without and were now taking up the old accrually as ever. It was an army men in active life, suggest-that when our own Uni-ce as many white my, the days ve long
Every foot of the campus was in possession of the men of days gone by. The under-graduate was there, but for once his importance was diminished, and he willingly gave place and precedence to those who had helped to make his college so beautiful and so great. The ivy-covered buildings were glowing with color, the proportion of orange to black apparently somewhat increased as more befitting to the occasion. From every window waved class or college banners, and a glance at Nassau Hall, the patriarch among the buildings, showed that a touch from an electrician would set it ablaze as soon as night should fall. The wealth of decorations somewhat obscured the fact that even in the brief time since I had last visited the place great changes had been made; but I did not forget to mourn over the disappearance of the old chapel, nor to admire what I could see of the foundation of the magnificent new library building, which will even finer than our own, and will cost ten times as much. There was, however, little time to waste in developing emotions of any sort, and I made haste to the committee office, passing on the way one of the two triumphal arches that spanned Nassau street, built in pure white, draped with the college colors, and bearing inscriptions commemorating the departing college and the coming university.
Tickets secured, I repaired to Alexander Hall,