#princeton

Waiting for my 'home town' to mature

"This being Fourth of July Week, and following so closely upon Commencement, the rummies have been very busy in making way with bad rum..."

वॉल स्ट्रीट को भूल जाओ. संभ्रांत छात्र अपनी गर्मियां स्टार्टअप सपनों पर बिता रहे हैं।

"It struck some of the old fogies queerly on their visit to Princeton College commencement to find the students arrayed in mortarboards and gowns. It was not so in the ’20’s, when my father was there, nor later when the Whig Society made me an adopted graduate for my father’s sake."

Such a town is inhabited of course by plain people, who are apt to look up to students, and on whom students are apt to look down. As soon as such people become dependent on students for a part of their subsistence, they begin, of course, to accord with their wishes, and soon after, to countenance and aid their vicious pursuits. The Students then corrupt the inhabitants, and the inhabitants corrupt the Students. … If I am not deceived, the College at Princeton has suffered severely from this source.