Princeton University
Princeton University is a private university in Princeton, New Jersey in the United States. It opened in 1746 with the name "The College of New Jersey". It was eventually named "Princeton University" in 1896. In conversation, it is simply called, "Princeton".[1]
Princeton is one of the 8 Ivy League colleges. It was the fourth official college in the United States.[2]
Princeton's main library, Firestone Library, is one of the biggest university libraries in the world.
In 2013 Forbes put Princeton at number three in their list of "America's Top Colleges".[3]
Princeton works with Coursera.
Princeton University Media
The Original Log College Building (a 19th-century representation)
This copperplate engraving is the earliest known engraving of Nassau Hall at Princeton University in Princeton, NJ. Illustration opposite p. 104 of New American Magazine, No. XXVII (March 1760) . *3.75 x 6.25 inches.
John Witherspoon, President of the college (1768–94) and signer of the Declaration of Independence
James McCosh, President of the college (1868–88)
Woodrow Wilson, President of Princeton University (1902–10) and 28th president of the United States
Center of Forrestal Campus
One of the first interwar dormitories constructed, Pyne Hall would come to serve as the home of first female students on campus.
Washington Road Elm Allée (east side)
Nassau Hall, the university's oldest building and former capitol of the United States. Pictured in front is Cannon Green.
Princeton University Art Museum (McCormick Hall) Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
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References
- ↑ http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pub/ph/05/03.htm Archived 2006-09-04 at the Wayback Machine "Princeton's History" — Parent's Handbook, 2005-06
- ↑ Princeton, Rutgers, and Columbia were founded within a few years of each other. Princeton was the fourth recognized "degree granting institution" to conduct classes. Several other colleges and universities are considered colonial-era "schools", but not considered Colonial Colleges, because they were not formally chartered as colleges with degree-granting powers, until after the formation of the United States of America in 1776
- ↑ "America's Top Colleges 2018". Forbes.
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