Well, A Georgian at Princeton is a book that takes you backward in time. There's a delight in its pages so that you hate to put it down. For a moment, you are with people of bygone age -- good, solid people. I'm tempted to go a little further in the book and give you his advice in brief to his two sons as they go away to college.
He says,
"In the first place then, we trust that you will regularly, twice each day, morning and evening, seriously, reverently and teachably read a portion of God's holy word and pray to him in secret as you have been taught thus to do from your earliest years. So we hope you will never omit this sacred and necessary duty.
"Second, that you will conscientiously remember the Sabbath Day, to keep it holy, frequenting the house of God at least twice in the day and spending the rest of its hours in reading the scriptures, of good books, and meditation and in prayer, and in consistent company and conversation.
"Third, that you will shout with horror or any suggestions or opinions, whether advocated by living man or advanced by authors of books, no matter how distinguished in the world for science or learning or wisdom that would lead you to disbelieve or even to doubt in the least degree the truth of God's holy word. Let God be true though every man be a liar.
"Fourth, that you will devote yourselves faithfully and conscientiously to your studies and make every improvement in your power and not misspend your time nor abuse your advantages. In order to do this, you must preserve your health by rigid system of diet, rest, and exercise.
"Fifth, as you have always been advocates of temperance and have never discarded as unnecessary expensive and" -- or rather, "have discarded as unnecessary, expensive and positively injurious and therefore, immoral, the use of --(undecipherable)-- and spirits and of tobacco in all their forms. So we trust that you will never, under any circumstances or influences, depart from these good opinions and habits.
"Sixth, we trust that you avoid the company and association of profane, Sabbath-breaking, idle, intemperate, immoral and dissipated young men.
"Seventh, that you will abstain from engaging in all games of chance, as dice, cards, lotteries, etc.
"Eighth, that you will go to no theater, nor circus, nor horse race, nor to any place of dissipated or low amusement.
"Ninth, that you will not be out of your room at night, except it be at some proper meeting connected with the college or the service of religion, or at the house of respectable friends.
"Tenth, that you will avoid engaging in any college riots or rebellions.
"Eleventh, that you will always endeavor to respect the feelings and rights and circumstances of your fellow men and conduct yourselves as well-bred gentlemen and men of character.
"Twelfth, that you will be economical in your expenditures and never run in debt, but meet all your pecuniary engagements upon your word and to your word.
"Thirteen, embrace opportunities for a favorable introduction into respectable religious and honorable families and improve yourselves by the best associations.
"Fourteenth, you will always remember that you our own and dear brothers. Therefore, be respectful, kind, accommodating, patient, generous and affectionate to each other.
"Fifteenth, and we add in conclusion, our dear sons, what we have always endeavored to inculcate and press upon you, that you remember your God and your redeemer and the priceless value of your immortal souls and the near approach of death and judgment and eternity and never be at peace until you have obtained that good part which shall not be taken away from you."
RJ Rushdoony - From a lecture from Pocket College