Wine and liquors were kept in many rooms; intemperance, profanity, gambling, and licentiousness were common.

I hardly know how I escaped....
That was the day of the infidelity of the Tom Paine school.
Boys that dressed flax in the barn, as I used to, read Tom Paine and believed him; I read and fought him all the way.
Never had any propensity to infidelity.

But most of the class before me were infidels, and called each other Voltaire, Rousseau, D'Alembert, etc."[231:1] In the Middle States the aspect was not more promising.

Princeton College had been closed for three years of the Revolutionary War.

In 1782 there were only two among the students who professed themselves Christians.