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WITHERSPOON, JOHN. Born in Haddingtonshire, Scotland, February 5, 1722; president of Princeton, 1768; delegate to Continental Congress, 1774-75; died near Princeton, September 15, 1794. MCCOSH, JAMES. Born at Carskeoch, Ayrshire, Scotland, April 1, 1811; president of Princeton, 1868-88; died at Princeton, November 16, 1894.
You won't dare, some day." Marjorie studied, Morris kept his eyes on a book that he did not read; neither spoke for fully three quarters of an hour. Marjorie studied with no pretence: Master McCosh had said that Miss West studied in fifteen minutes to more purpose than any other of her class did in an hour.
He was at the Social Science Congress held in Belfast, meeting Lord Dufferin, Dr. James McCosh, Goldwin Smith, and others. Two months more were given to study and observation in the countries Ireland, England and Scotland, Holland and Belgium. Of his frequent letters to the Journal a score or so were written especially to and for young people, though all of them interested every class of readers.
He was a member of the Continental Congress, urged ceaselessly the passage of the Declaration of Independence, was one of its signers, and as a member of succeeding Congresses, distinguished himself by his services. After the close of the war, he returned to Princeton and devoted the remainder of his life to its administration. Greatest of the three as an educator was James McCosh.
The Harvard and Princeton alumni also had an association at that time, with annual dinners, and it was customary for the officers of each of these organizations to be guests of the one which gave the dinner. The presidents of the colleges represented always came. Yale could rely upon President Dwight, Harvard upon President Eliot, and Princeton upon President McCosh.
Master McCosh was writing at the table, a group of girls were clustered around one of the registers. "It was mean! It was real mean!" a voice was exclaiming. "I don't see how you could tell her, Clarissa Parks! You know she adores Miss Pomeroy." "You all seemed to listen well enough," retorted Miss Parks. "We were spell-bound. We couldn't help it," excused Emma Downs.
He should not, certainly, have mentioned the war. He wondered desperately what a fine and delicate being like Rosemary Roselle talked about? It would be wise to avoid serious and immediate considerations for commonplaces. "Ellik McCosh," he said, "a girl in our village who went to Boston, learned to dance, and when she came back she taught two or three.
He was also prominently identified with the general educational movement throughout the country, and his "True Ideal of an American University," published in 1872, attracted much attention. Princeton has also had its share of eminent men, among them Jonathan Edwards, John Witherspoon, and James McCosh. Jonathan Edwards was one of the most remarkable characters in American history.
Divine Methods of Reclaiming Men "The Chief of Sinners" Changed in a Moment No Violence Done to His Freedom Yet Sovereign Power The Mystery of Grace View of McCosh Supremacy of Conscience Sir Isaac Newton's Alertness of Mind Reason and Intuition Capturing the Most Incorrigible Evil Environment Suffering a Necessary Factor Agony of Remorse.
Well did Ex-President McCosh say that the Christian Church had not witnessed such a spirit of consecration since the day of Pentecost. The colleges have done another valuable service in awakening and strengthening in the national life a deeper sense of the value and importance of human knowledge. They are monuments of the dignity and worth of ideas, and the aspirations of the human soul.
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