Editing Princeton University (section)

=== Founding ===
[[File:Log College.jpg|left|thumb|The [[Log College]], an influential aspect of Princeton's development|alt=A drawing of the Log College|upright=1.1]]
Princeton University, founded as the College of New Jersey, was shaped much in its formative years by the "[[Log College]]", a [[seminary]] founded by the Reverend [[William Tennent]] at [[Neshaminy, Pennsylvania]], in about 1726. While no legal connection ever existed, many of the pupils and adherents from the Log College would go on to financially support and become substantially involved in the early years of the university.{{Sfn|Leitch|1978|p=291–292}} While early writers considered it as the predecessor of the university,<ref name="Holland-1877">{{Cite journal|date=March 1877|editor-last=Holland|editor-first=J. G.|title=Princeton College|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hnyb78&view=1up&seq=633&q1=princeton%20college|journal=[[Scribner's Monthly]]|volume=XIII|issue=5|page=626|via=[[HathiTrust]]|access-date=June 18, 2021|archive-date=June 24, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624225048/https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hnyb78&view=1up&seq=633&q1=princeton%20college|url-status=live}}</ref> the idea has been rebuked by Princeton historians.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Craven|first=Elijah R.|date=1902|title=The Log College of Neshaminy and Princeton University|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23322482|journal=Journal of the Presbyterian Historical Society|volume=1|issue=4|pages=308–314|jstor=23322482|access-date=July 24, 2021|archive-date=July 24, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210724223748/https://www.jstor.org/stable/23322482|url-status=live}}</ref>{{Sfn|Leitch|1978|p=291–292}}

The founding of the university itself originated from a split in the [[Presbyterianism|Presbyterian]] church following the [[Great Awakening]].{{Sfn|Oberdorfer|1995|p=11}} In 1741, [[Old Side–New Side Controversy|New Light]] Presbyterians were expelled from the [[Synod of Philadelphia]] in defense of how the Log College ordained ministers.{{Sfn|Leitch|1978|p=198}} The four founders of the College of New Jersey, who were New Lights, were either expelled or withdrew from the Synod and devised a plan to establish a new college, for they were disappointed with [[Harvard University|Harvard]] and [[Yale University|Yale]]'s opposition to the Great Awakening and dissatisfied with the limited instruction at the Log College.{{Sfn|Leitch|1978|p=198}}{{Sfn|Oberdorfer|1995|p=11}} They convinced three other Presbyterians to join them and decided on New Jersey as the location for the college, as at the time, there was no institution between Yale College in [[New Haven, Connecticut]], and the [[College of William & Mary]] in [[Williamsburg, Virginia]]; it was also where some of the founders preached.{{Sfn|Oberdorfer|1995|p=12}} Although their initial request was rejected by the [[Anglicanism|Anglican]] governor [[Lewis Morris (governor)|Lewis Morrison]], the [[acting governor]] after Morrison's death, [[John Hamilton (New Jersey politician)|John Hamilton]], granted a charter for the College of New Jersey on October 22, 1746.{{Sfn|Leitch|1978|p=199}}{{Sfn|Oberdorfer|1995|p=12}} In 1747, approximately five months after acquiring the charter, the trustees elected [[Jonathan Dickinson (New Jersey minister)|Jonathan Dickinson]] as president and opened in [[Elizabeth, New Jersey]],{{Sfn|Leitch|1978|p=199}} where classes were held in Dickinson's [[Clergy house|parsonage]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Jonathan Dickinson|url=https://pr.princeton.edu/pub/presidents/dickinson/index.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709183254/https://pr.princeton.edu/pub/presidents/dickinson/index.html|archive-date=July 9, 2021|access-date=July 4, 2021|website=The Presidents of Princeton University|publisher=Princeton University}}</ref> With its founding, it became the [[Colonial colleges|fourth-oldest institution]] of higher education in the United States, and one of nine colonial colleges chartered before the [[American Revolution]].<ref name="HarvardCrimson-1883" /><ref name="Princeton-History" /> The founders aimed for the college to have an expansive curriculum to teach people of various professions, not solely ministerial work.{{Sfn|Morrison|2005|p=47}}{{Sfn|Leitch|1978|p=199}} Though the school was open to those of any religious denomination,{{Sfn|Oberdorfer|1995|p=15}} with many of the founders being of Presbyterian faith, the college became the educational and religious capital of [[Scotch-Irish Americans|Scotch-Irish]] Presbyterian America.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Wertenbaker|first=Thomas J.|date=December 1958|title=The College of New Jersey and the Presbyterians|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23325333|journal=Journal of the Presbyterian Historical Society|volume=36|issue=4|page=213|jstor=23325333|access-date=June 18, 2021|archive-date=June 25, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210625023454/https://www.jstor.org/stable/23325333|url-status=live}}</ref>