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Kodachrome by W. J. Stuber
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HISTORY DF PHIMCETDN Princeton is the child of the Great Awakening, a religious movement which swept colonial America in the early j art of the eighteenth century. It was founded by a group of serious-minded, profoundly- disturbed men who gathered in Elizabeth one day in 1738. They met there to make plans for the establishment of a New Light College, destined to become, 158 years later, Princeton University. They had re- cently attended a meeting of the Presby- terian s}Tiod in Philadelphia, where the conflict between the New Lights and the Old Side had reached a crisis. The liberally- inclined Old Side group had carried the synod and resolved that clergy trained in New Light beliefs Avould no longer be ordained. This edict was met with determined opp osition by the delegates from those vari- ous sections of America which embraced the philosophy of the New Lights. The represenutives of New Jersey, who were particularly attached to New Light dogma, set about to discuss a means of distributing their ideas regardless of Old Side edicts. So it was that four ministers— Jonathan Dickinson, Aaron Burr, Sr., Ebenezer Pem- berton, and John Pierson, combined with three laymen— William Smith, Peter Liv- ingston, and William Peartree Smith, to formulate plans for a new college. They proceeded with organizational plans and procured the necessary funds, and in 1745 applied to Governor Lewis Morris of New Jersey for a charter. They were met with disappointment, however, for the request was denied because of certain clauses in New Jersey ' s laws which prevented grant- ing a charter to a dissenting college. It is
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