Like other Ivy League institutions and academia at large, Princeton has a long and mixed record on racial diversity.
Nearly two years after the faculty voted to accept a proposal aimed at combatting grade inflation, the 'Prince' examines the plan's implementation and its effects.Click here to see The Daily Princetonian's 2006 Grade Deflation series.
The Daily Princetonian examines the changing trends in the study of languages that students choose to take at the University.Click here to view The Ivory Tower of Babel Series.
Nov. 14, 2006 marked the debut of The Daily Princetonian's series counting down The Top 20 Greatest Athletes in Princeton history.
The Daily Princetonian looks back on the five years since the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States, exploring the lives of Princetonians, from the victims' families to soldiers to Muslim students.
Princeton has produced its share of luminaries in fields outside politics. Take, for example, the world of literature.Pulitzer Prize winner for general nonfiction in 1999 John McPhee '53 writes essays for The New Yorker and teaches a creative nonfiction course for undergraduates.Edmund Wilson '16 authored many celebrated works of criticism.
At some point in their first year of college, all students wish they were somewhere else. Anywhere else.And at that point, some fraction of students decides that even the prestige of the University's seal on that diploma isn't worth the long, rocky road it takes to obtain it.After all, Princeton students have class years tacked on the end of their names until the end of time, whether they complete a triumphant march out FitzRandolph Gate or not.Never fear.
The following is a haphazard collection of Princeton buzzwords that may or may not make up your entire vocabulary by the time midterms roll around.
On the off chance that you aren't assigned enough work to keep you busy here, several organizations would love to take some time off your hands.
Princeton was in the nation's service decades before there was even a nation.The University celebrated its 250th birthday seven years ago.
The following is a haphazard collection of Princeton buzzwords that may or may not make up your entire vocabulary by the time midterms roll around.
Surviving nearly 250 years of fires, wars and rowdy Princeton students, Nassau Hall still stands as a symbol of the history and traditions of the University.Not only does it house administrative offices, its sturdy walls contain numerous stories and legends ? some truths, some myths ? that will never die. In the beginningNassau Hall, which took two years to build, was the largest stone structure in the colonies when it was completed in 1756.Princeton's trustees wanted to name the University's first building in honor of Jonathan Belcher, the governor of New Jersey who obtained community support for the college.
From feminist plays to poetry readings to dance performances to roaring musicals, Princeton has it all for the attentive "culture vulture."Performing arts at Princeton include a wealth of activities, but one of the areas with the widest participation is theater.Two student-run theater groups, Triangle Club and Theatre-Intime (pronounced "onteem"), have long traditions of putting on entertaining and engaging dramatic productions.During Orientation Week, Triangle Club presents a collage of some of its best numbers from recent years in a show that has become a Princeton tradition.
After Maurice Cohill Jr. '51 performed his usual humorous monologue as "Princeton Charlie" at a football game in 1950, Ed Sullivan asked him to appear on his show.
The following is a haphazard collection of Princeton buzzwords that may or may not make up your entire vocabulary by the time midterms roll around.
It was 11 p.m., and the polls had just closed on the West Coast. Thousands gathered at the steps of the statehouse in Little Rock to await the appearance of the man just elected the 42nd President of the United States.The 'Prince' was there.It was late in the evening when the helicopters circling overhead indicated that something was amiss in Princeton.
A fallacy is lurking on the lawn near Spelman Hall."Head of a Woman," which is, rather, the great abstraction of the head of a woman situated on top of a column, is not the manual work or sweat of Pablo Picasso.Have not boasts been made from Scully Hall to the curb of Nassau Street that Princeton owns one of Picasso's masterpieces, though?If "Head of a Woman" was not constructed by the hands of Picasso, then by whose?Students walk past, sit next to and even climb through the outdoor sculptures that are the John B.
Every May, as the days grow warmer and classes end, University undergrads assemble for the annual tradition of Houseparties.
