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  Princeton University - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Princeton is among the wealthiest universities in the world, with an endowment just under 10 billion US dollars (#4th largest in the United States) sustained through the continued donations of its alumni and maintained by investment advisors.
Princeton University was named by the Princeton Review (which is, despite the name, unaffiliated with the university) as one of the most affordable colleges in the nation.
The undergraduate residential colleges are the residential-dining complexes that house freshmen, sophomores, and a handful of junior and senior resident advisers.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Princeton_University   (6572 words)

  
 Princeton University   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Princeton University, located in Princeton, New Jersey, is one of the eight Ivy League universities.
Princeton is among the wealthiest universities in the world, with an endowment of over eight billion US dollars sustained through the continued donations of its alumni and maintained by expert investment advisors.
Princeton has a "need-blind" admission policy, in which students are accepted into the incoming class on merit, regardless of their ability to pay the high tutition fees.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/princeton_university   (2140 words)

  
 Princeton College Democrats   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The College Democrats are now producing a one-page publication called "Popping the Princeton Bubble" which summarizes some of the key news stories of the week.
New Jersey 101 is co-sponsored by the Princeton College Democrats and Republicans, the Undergraduate Student Government, and the Princeton Office of State and Community Affairs.
Princeton Votes 2005 is a bipartisan campaign to foster civic engagement among Princeton students through voter registration drives, voter education projects, a get-out-the-vote campaign and a fall break campaign week.
www.princeton.edu /~pudems   (478 words)

  
 Princeton University | Admissions Facts and Statistics
Princeton University is located out of the big city limelight, in a small, pleasant New Jersey town about an hour's train ride from either New York City or Philadelphia.
Princeton graduates did much to shape the internationalist outlook of the American statesmen and diplomats who led the United States into its post-World War II era of leadership.
Princeton students enjoy the benefits of an extremely low student-to-faculty ratio (approximately 5 to 1) and access to remarkable libraries and art collections.
www.admissionsconsultants.com /college/princeton.asp   (413 words)

  
 Early American Presbyterian Institutions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The college is governed [1884] by a Board of thirty-six trustees, one third of whom are appointed annually by the Synod of Tennessee.
Princeton College and the College of New Jersey
Edwards came to Princeton in January, 1758, and was regularly constituted President, at a meeting of the Trustees, on the 16th of Febrary, when he was also invested with the care of the Grammar School, its masters and ushers, and with a right to the profits accruing from it.
sdss4.physics.lsa.umich.edu:8080 /~mckay/amckay/presinst.htm   (8603 words)

  
 Princeton Inn College   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Princeton Inn College was founded in 1970 in response to a need and an idea.
The old Princeton Inn, built in 1924-25, was a gracious, rambling hotel.* On the rear terrace, overlooking the pond of Springdale golf course, where the British had made a temporary stand during the Battle of Princeton, guests could sip a cocktail and listen to the music of the carillon float down from the Cleveland Tower.
The new Inn was planned as a residential college, a community to join what Princeton has traditionally put asunder: academic and social life; different classes; undergraduates, graduate students, townspeople, and faculty; men and women.
etc.princeton.edu /CampusWWW/Companion/princeton_inn_college.html   (496 words)

  
 Princeton Hosts Boston College In NCAA Women's Soccer Sweet 16 :: Tigers, Eagle play for spot in quarterfinals
Princeton's Julie Shackford gave birth to her twins Cameron and Keegan in December 2002, while BC coach Alison Foley gave birth to her daughter Sidnie in early 2003.
Princeton had scored a total of six goals in its nine NCAA tournament games in seven NCAA tournaments prior to this season.
Princeton scored 57 goals in 1980, the first season of varsity women's soccer at the school.
www.cstv.com /sports/w-soccer/stories/111804aad.html   (1592 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Princeton tops college list   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Princeton University in New Jersey is the best national doctorate-granting institution of higher education for the second straight year, says U.S. News & World Report in its latest rankings.
Most critics argue that the criteria used by U.S. News to assess colleges are inappropriate, misleading and counterproductive to the already stressful college admissions process.
For example, one method attempts to measure student-faculty interaction; another tries to identify potential college choices based on a student's goals and values.
www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2001/09/07/top-colleges-usat.htm   (353 words)

  
 Forbes College   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Forbes College is one of five residential colleges that house all freshmen and sophomores (and many upperclass students) at Princeton.
Princeton Inn, designed by the New York architect Andrew Jackson Thomas and built in 1924-25, served as a gracious, rambling hotel until it was acquired by the University in 1970.
The Forbes College Office includes a Dean, responsible for academic aspects of student life; a Director of Studies, involved with academic advising as well as social and disciplinary aspects of student life; an Administrator, who supervises the programs of the College; and a Secretary.
web.princeton.edu /sites/forbes/generalinfo.htm   (1806 words)

  
 Yale v. Princeton
Princeton is very white and wealthy and the dining clubs tend to dominate social life.
Princeton's yield is in the mid-70's and Yale's is in the 60's (the percentage of admitted students who choose to enroll).
Princeton is currently planning a switch to a 4-year system like Yale's, but at the moment it's still a 2-year system.
www.collegeconfidential.com /discus/messages/4/458.html   (2064 words)

  
 legends.doc
When the College was named Princeton University at its sesquicentennial in 1896, the design of the seal was simplified to include a shield with appropriate iconography set within a circular border along with the new University motto, DEI SUB NUMINE VIGET: Under God's power she flourishes.
The College performed like a dysfunctional family, with the administration unable to cope with the rebelliousness of the students, who in turn thought the faculty was unjust and tyrannical.
Princeton may gradually fail to qualify as an ivy college as the ancient ivy that has been planted by graduating seniors for over a centuries dies away.
etcweb1.princeton.edu /CampusWWW/Communications/legends.html   (10818 words)

  
 Eating clubs
With the banning of Greek-letter fraternities in 1855, the field was left open for the eating clubs to become the dominant social influence among undergraduates.
Although still a distinctive feature of Princeton's non-academic life, they are no longer the center of it, now that the University offers its larger and more diverse student body a wider variety of dining and social alternatives than ever before.
When the college refectory was permanently closed in 1856, all students began taking their meals in village boardinghouses, many of them in ``select associations.'' In 1864, the newly founded Nassau Herald listed twelve such groups, by then called eating clubs.
etcweb1.princeton.edu /CampusWWW/Companion/eating_clubs.html   (1403 words)

  
 The Role of Princeton College Graduates in Founding "Princeton Daughter Colleges"
Union College, New York, owes its existence in a great measure to the persevering exertions of THEODORE DIRCK ROMEYN, a graduate of the class of 1765, and its first President was JOHN BLAIR SMITH, a graduate of the class of 1773, and its second President was JONATHAN EDWARDS of the class of 1765.
Hamilton College, New York, owes its existence to SAMUEL KIRKLAND, a graduate of the class of 1765, through whose influence Hamilton Oneida Academy was incorporated, and to which he conveyed a large landed estate, and which became, under a new charter, Hamilton College.
It was in the halls of this college that the Mecklenburg Convention held its sessions.
www.belcherfoundation.org /princeton_daughter_colleges.htm   (1387 words)

  
 princeton.html
New England first felt her nigh influences, whose sons she inspired with a generous emulation of erecting schools and colleges for the 'instruction of their youth, and instilling into the tender mind the principles of pie and I learning.
Accordingly, in the year 1747, a petition was presented to His Excellency Jonathan Belcher, Esq., governor of that province (a gentleman who has long signalized himself as a patron of religion and learning), praying His Majesty's grant of a charter for the establishment of a public seminary of literature in New Jersey.
They proceed not so much in the method of a dogmatic institution, by prolix discourses on the different branches of the sciences, by burdening the memory and imposing heavy and disagreeable tasks, as in the Socratic way of free dialogue between teacher and pupil, or between the students themselves under the inspection of their tutors.
personal.pitnet.net /primarysources/princeton.html   (1028 words)

  
 College Review: Princeton University
Princeton is also relatively close to both Philadelphia and New York City.
Princeton went co-ed only twenty years ago, and two of their eating clubs are still for men only.
She also said she would prefer to have Princeton closer to a city, but when asked if she had college to do over, she said she would definitely go to Princeton.
www.teenink.com /Past/1990/675.html   (282 words)

  
 Princeton University Tigers - College Sports - The Official Athletic Site   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Princeton's soon-to-be past and its present combined to do its part to make sure the Tiger women's soccer team has at least one more game this season.
The Princeton men's soccer team continued a remarkable string of success against one of its biggest rivals Saturday night in Philadelphia, and the Tigers did it in dramatic fashion.
Darren Spicer's goal with 4:25 left in the second half was Princeton's second in less than five minutes and was enough to give the Tigers a 2-1 win over Penn at Rhodes Field, extending Princeton's unbeaten streak against the Quakers to an amazing 20 consecutive seasons.
goprincetontigers.collegesports.com   (443 words)

  
 Wesleyan College: News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Wesleyan College is one of the nation’s best institutions for undergraduate education, according to The Princeton Review, the New York-based company known for its test-prep and education services.
The Princeton Review college guide is unique in offering both two-page profiles on the colleges and college ranking lists based on what students attending the schools report about their college and campus experiences at them.
Wesleyan College was named one of the Best in the Southeast and was ranked 19th for having a faculty that encourages class discussions.
www.wesleyancollege.edu /news/articles/2003/09172003_princeton.html   (580 words)

  
 Davies, Samuel
Davies, Samuel (1723-1761), fourth president of Princeton, was born in New Castle County, Delaware.
His parents could not afford to send him to college but were determined that he should be trained for the ministry.
Among the eleven were a member of the Continental Congress, chaplains in the Continental Army, judges in Maine and Pennsylvania, the founder of a college in North Carolina, a member of the United States House of Representatives, and a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
etc.princeton.edu /CampusWWW/Companion/davies_samuel.html   (494 words)

  
 Meta-Analysis of State Polls - election.princeton.edu
As I said during the campaign, Electoral College mechanisms (essentially because of increased clustering of Bush supporters) gave Kerry an approximately 2% advantage compared with the popular vote.
I suspect that some of the shifts in my data that I could not explain may be explained by campaign moves that were not obvious at the level of national media.
The way to do this calculation is to see how much the Electoral College win probability is changed by incrementing a state's margin by some fraction F, where F is inversely proportional to the state's voting population.
election.princeton.edu   (11833 words)

  
 Fordham Fordham/Princeton Princeton College Football recap on ESPN
PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) _ Cameron Atkinson rushed for 122 yards and became the first Princeton freshman to score an offensive touchdown for the varsity as Tigers defeated winless Fordham 27-0 on Saturday.
Princeton, which played Rutgers in college football's first game in 1869, did not allow freshmen to play varsity football until 1994.
Princeton scored on the opening possession of the game, driving 75 yards in 14 plays.
espn.go.com /ncf/1999/991002/recap/fflpph.html   (425 words)

  
 Biography of President Aaron Burr of Princeton College
In short, he was determined at all [ventures] to support the authority of the college and maintain virtue [morality] and good order among the pupils to the utmost of his power, wherein all must acknowledge he was greatly to be commended.
The stock of which the [college’s] corporation is possessed is greatly owing either to resources of his projecting or schemes which were carried into execution principally by his consummate address [conversation], steadfast perseverance, and unexampled activity.
The sense you had of the large [debts] of gratitude the college lay under to his memory, and the distinguished honors which were due to his name for his extraordinary services [to the college], you have taken the most effectual care to perpetuate the remembrance of, to latest posterity.
www.belcherfoundation.org /burr.htm   (5276 words)

  
 Elsewhere - Hamilton College, Princeton let it all hang out in unusual rivalry - News
Though Hamilton College and Princeton University rarely face each other on the basketball court, a new rivalry is brewing between the two schools in the form of "varsity" streaking.
Members of Princeton's streaking team decided to form the group after learning of Hamilton College's new form of recreation.
But at Hamilton, members still claim their team is "the single greatest varsity streaking team in America and possibly the world," senior Craig Moores said.
www.thehurricaneonline.com /news/2005/03/01/News/Elsewhere.Hamilton.College.Princeton.Let.It.All.Hang.Out.In.Unusual.Rivalry-880795.shtml   (207 words)

  
 Princeton University - Residential Colleges
Each college has a cluster of dormitories, a dining hall, lounges, seminar and study rooms, a library, computing facilities, game and television rooms, and, in some cases, theaters and other spaces for the creative and performing arts.
Many students develop strong loyalties and friendships within their college, and the colleges often interact through social events and intramural sports.
Each college also has a staff that includes a dean and a director of studies responsible for academic advising for A.B. students, and juniors and seniors who serve as resident advisers and minority affairs advisers.
www.princeton.edu /Siteware/ResColleges.shtml   (161 words)

  
 Cornell Cornell/Princeton Princeton College Football recap on ESPN
PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) _ Sophomore Ricky Rahne threw two touchdowns in his first start and Deon Harris rushed for 113 yards as Cornell defeated Princeton 20-3 in the season opener for both Ivy League teams on Saturday.
He gave Cornell breathing room in the fourth with a 31-yard score to a wide open Mike Parris on a play in which the Princeton defense blew a coverage on the tight end.
The play that seemed to ignite Cornell came late in the first quarter when Princeton tailback Kyle Brandt was stopped on a fourth and less than a yard at the Big Red 30, with lineman Tom Crone appearing to make the big stop.
www.espn.go.com /ncf/1999/990918/recap/ccrpph.html   (361 words)

  
 Harvard, Princeton top college rankings
Williams College was the top-ranked liberal arts college.
The rankings are generated by a formula that includes variables such as graduation and retention rates, faculty and financial resources, and the percentage of alumni who donate money to their alma mater.
The rankings are both reviled and breathlessly awaited by college administrators, who insist no formula can capture the value of a college experience but have been forced to acknowledge the enormous role rankings play in the minds of applicants and parents.
www.suntimes.com /output/education/cst-nws-rank20.html   (227 words)

  
 PRINCETON COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL - Curriculum
Princeton College Preparatory School has been dedicated to offering a rich and varied course of study in the best of the grand academic tradition for over twenty years.
A passage in a reading might prompt an historical study, which may introduce a lesson in science, the lesson will lead inevitably to a topic in math.
An important part of the curriculum of all classes in English, mathematics, social studies, sciences and classical languages is devoted to the revelance and application of the subject matter to success on the SAT test.
www.princetoncollegeprep.com /curriculum.html   (836 words)

  
 Philip Vickers Fithian, journal and letters, 1767–1774, student at Princeton college, 1770–72, tutor at ...
Philip Vickers Fithian was born December 29th, 1747; was a student at Princeton College, 1770–'72, at the same time with Henry Lee, Aaron Burr, and James Madison; studied theology 1772–'73; taught in Virginia, 1773–'74; and was sent as a missionary among the pioneer settlers of Western Virginia and Pennsylvania, 1775–'76.
We have had a considerable stir of religion 1 in college since you went away, Lewis Willson 2 is thought to have got religion; and the formerly abandoned Glover is seeking the way to heaven.
Imlay 1 is gone from College and is not expected back 'till near commencement, however I have talked with some of his acquaintances, and they say he expects to go.
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