Discourse Delivered At the Funeral of John Maclean Dd Ll D Tenth Presiden
Discourse Delivered At the Funeral of John Maclean Dd Ll D Tenth Presiden
John Thomas Duffield
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" Within the year after this address was delivered, the Legislature took the Initiative of the present Common School system, which is built closely upon Dr. Maclean's idea; and the first township that availed itself of the new system did so in response to his personal appeal to its citizens. It Is pleasant and significant to note that this important proposi- tion regarding Public Schools came from the College devoted to higher learning ; and that this appeal on behalf of the liberty of every ci...tizen to have his children educated without religious bias that offend- ed his conscience, was made In the chapel of Nassau Hall, a place supposed. In that day, to be conse- crated to Presbyterian orthodoxy. Princeton has been accused of Puritanism; but It was evidently more of the Roger Williams type than that of the fathers about Massachusetts Bay. Dr. Maclean possessed a rare faculty for measur- ing men, and was seldom deceived in an estimate of either ability or character. At a time when he him- self constituted at least one-half of the Faculty, and when the state of the finances and repute of the college raised the question of abandoning the enter- prise, Prof.
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