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 | | Nassau Hall was, at the time of its completion in 1756, the largest stone building in the colonies. |
 | | The trustees originally voted that ``the College be built of Brick if good Brick can be made at Princeton and if sand can be got reasonably cheap,'' but they later changed their plans and ``the College'' was built of a light brown sandstone from a nearby quarry. |
 | | For many years, the Nassau Hall bell was rung with a rope pulled by a campus policeman or, in the hour-long ringing after a football victory in New Haven or Cambridge, by freshmen and, at least on one occasion, by a dean, whose signature, Christian Gauss, appeared on the wall among the other bell ringers'. |
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