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Samuel Stanhope Smith
Samuel Stanhope Smith (March 15, 1751 – August 21, 1819) was a Presbyterian minister, founding president of Hampden–Sydney College and the seventh president of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) from 1795 to 1812. His stormy career ended in his enforced resignation. His words - "If reason and charity cannot promote the cause of truth and piety, I cannot see how it should ever flourish under the withering fires of wrath and strife" - ironically epitomize his career.〔William H. Hudnut, III. "Samuel Stanhope Smith: Enlightened Conservative" ''Journal of the History of Ideas'' 1956 17(4): 540-552〕
==Biography==
Born in Pequea, Pennsylvania, he had graduated as a valedictorian from the College of New Jersey (name later changed to Princeton University) in 1769, and went on to study theology and philosophy under John Witherspoon, whose daughter, Ann, he married on 28 June 1775. In his mid-twenties, he worked as a missionary in Virginia, and from 1775 to 1779, he served as the founder and rector of Hampden–Sydney College, which he referred to in his advertisement of 1 September 1775 as "an Academy in Prince Edward."〔Virginia Gazette, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1 September 1775〕 The school, not then named, was always intended to be a college-level institution; later in the same advertisement, Smith explicitly likens its curriculum to that of the College of New Jersey. "Academy" was a technical term used for college-level schools not run by the established church.〔Brinkley, 5 and Appendix I, 847-50〕 Stanhope Smith held honorary doctorates from Yale and Harvard and was a leading member of the American Philosophical Society.
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