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'''Princeton University''' is a small private world-class research university in central New Jersey. It tied for #1 in US News's 2010 "National [[University|Universities]]: Top Schools" list<ref>http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/national-universities-rankings</ref>. It has the highest endowment per student of any school in the world and competes with [[Harvard]], [[MIT]], [[Stanford]], and [[Yale]].  

'''Princeton University''' is a small private world-class research university in central New Jersey. It tied for #1 in US News's 2010 "National [[University|Universities]]: Top Schools" list.<ref>http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/national-universities-rankings</ref>  It has the highest endowment per student of any school in the world and competes with [[Harvard]], [[MIT]], [[Stanford]], and [[Yale]].  

Princeton is extraordinarily difficult to get into, but it offers financial aid to those students who can prove that their parents have sufficiently low income and assets. Home schooled applicants are welcome; in 2002 one of them became valedictorian, and in 2009 they admitted eleven homeschooled applicants.  Princeton is built around its undergraduate college and its small graduate school. [[James Madison]] was the first graduate student. [[Woodrow Wilson]], as president of the school in 1910, tried and failed to bring the two together. Princeton does not have schools of medicine, law, business or divinity, but does have a schools of engineering and architecture as well as the Woodrow Wilson School for Public Affairs.<ref> [[Princeton Theological Seminary]] nearby is totally separate, as is the Institute for Advanced Study.</ref>  The Firestone Library is world famous.  

Princeton is extraordinarily difficult to get into, but it offers financial aid to those students who can prove that their parents have sufficiently low income and assets. Home schooled applicants are welcome; in 2002 one of them became valedictorian, and in 2009 they admitted eleven homeschooled applicants.  Princeton is built around its undergraduate college and its small graduate school. [[James Madison]] was the first graduate student. [[Woodrow Wilson]], as president of the school in 1910, tried and failed to bring the two together. Princeton does not have schools of medicine, law, business or divinity, but does have a schools of engineering and architecture as well as the Woodrow Wilson School for Public Affairs.<ref>[[Princeton Theological Seminary]] nearby is totally separate, as is the Institute for Advanced Study.</ref>  The Firestone Library is world famous.  

Princeton, in its own words, "simultaneously strives to be one of the leading research universities and the most outstanding undergraduate college in the world."<ref>[http://www.princeton.edu/main/about/ About Princeton], university website: "Princeton simultaneously strives to be one of the leading research universities and the most outstanding undergraduate college in the world. As a research university, it seeks to achieve the highest levels of distinction in the discovery and transmission of knowledge and understanding, and in the education of graduate students. At the same time, Princeton is distinctive among research universities in its commitment to undergraduate teaching."</ref>

Princeton, in its own words, "simultaneously strives to be one of the leading research universities and the most outstanding undergraduate college in the world."<ref>[http://www.princeton.edu/main/about/ About Princeton], university website: "Princeton simultaneously strives to be one of the leading research universities and the most outstanding undergraduate college in the world. As a research university, it seeks to achieve the highest levels of distinction in the discovery and transmission of knowledge and understanding, and in the education of graduate students. At the same time, Princeton is distinctive among research universities in its commitment to undergraduate teaching."</ref>

Princeton was founded to train men who would become "ornaments of the State as well as the Church." It was chartered to trustees representing the New Light (evangelical) wing of the Presbyterian church, but was open to men of any denomination, and had no legal connection with the Church.<ref>[http://www.princeton.edu/pr/facts/revolution.html Princeton in the American Revolution], Princeton website: "The charter was issued to a self-perpetuating board of trustees who were acting in behalf of the evangelical or New Light wing of the Presbyterian Church, but the College had no legal or constitutional identification with that denomination. Its doors were to be open to all students, 'any different sentiments in religion notwithstanding.' The announced purpose of the founders was to train men who would become 'ornaments of the State as well as the Church.'"</ref>

Princeton was founded to train men who would become "ornaments of the State as well as the Church." It was chartered to trustees representing the New Light (evangelical) wing of the Presbyterian church, but was open to men of any denomination, and had no legal connection with the Church.<ref>[http://www.princeton.edu/pr/facts/revolution.html Princeton in the American Revolution], Princeton website: "The charter was issued to a self-perpetuating board of trustees who were acting in behalf of the evangelical or New Light wing of the Presbyterian Church, but the College had no legal or constitutional identification with that denomination. Its doors were to be open to all students, 'any different sentiments in religion notwithstanding.' The announced purpose of the founders was to train men who would become 'ornaments of the State as well as the Church.'"</ref>

Princeton's original building, Nassau Hall, was the first important college building in the Middle Atlantic colonies. Construction began in 1754 and it was first used in 1756.<ref name=nps>[http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/colonials-patriots/sitec24.htm Nassau Hall], National Park Service</ref> It was named in honor of King William III,<ref name=princetoniana>[http://tigernet.princeton.edu/~ptoniana/nassauhall.asp Nassua Hall], Princeton alumni association website</ref>, King of England from 1689 to 1702, and a Dutch-born member of the house of Orange-Nassau. It was pressed into service in the American Revolution, changed hands several times during the [[Battle of Princeton]], and briefly served as the capital of the United States in 1783<ref name=princetoniana/>. The building, and by extension Princeton itself, are affectionately referred to by Princeton alums as "Old Nassau." ''Old Nassau'' is also the title of Princeton's [[alma mater]], written in 1859<ref>[http://tigernet.princeton.edu/~ptoniana/oldnassau2.asp Old Nassau], history and words, Princeton alumni association website.</ref> John O'Hara once observed that if Harvard men go to heaven, "Princeton men go back to Old Nassau."<ref>O'Hara, John, ''My Turn,'' Newsday, May 8, 1965, as collected in his 1966 book ''My Turn''</ref>

Princeton's original building, Nassau Hall, was the first important college building in the Middle Atlantic colonies. Construction began in 1754 and it was first used in 1756.<ref name=nps>[http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/colonials-patriots/sitec24.htm Nassau Hall], National Park Service</ref> It was named in honor of King William III,<ref name=princetoniana>[http://tigernet.princeton.edu/~ptoniana/nassauhall.asp Nassua Hall], Princeton alumni association website</ref> King of England from 1689 to 1702, and a Dutch-born member of the house of Orange-Nassau. It was pressed into service in the American Revolution, changed hands several times during the [[Battle of Princeton]], and briefly served as the capital of the United States in 1783.<ref name=princetoniana/> The building, and by extension Princeton itself, are affectionately referred to by Princeton alums as "Old Nassau." ''Old Nassau'' is also the title of Princeton's [[alma mater]], written in 1859<ref>[http://tigernet.princeton.edu/~ptoniana/oldnassau2.asp Old Nassau], history and words, Princeton alumni association website.</ref> John O'Hara once observed that if Harvard men go to heaven, "Princeton men go back to Old Nassau."<ref>O'Hara, John, ''My Turn,'' Newsday, May 8, 1965, as collected in his 1966 book ''My Turn''</ref>

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:A college was founded here [in Princeton] in the year 1738[sic], which gradually attained to a highly respectable rank as a literary institution... Academical institutions, like those of other kinds, are subject to many vicissitudes of fortune; and Princeton College, from the limited number of its Faculty, is more so than some others. In the sister establishments of Yale and Harvard, where the Professors are so much more numerous, a casual mediocrity of talent in one or two, is generally compensated by eminence in the rest; but here where a President, two Professors, and two Tutors, form the whole corporation, much more depends upon their individual abilities.

:A college was founded here [in Princeton] in the year 1738[sic], which gradually attained to a highly respectable rank as a literary institution... Academical institutions, like those of other kinds, are subject to many vicissitudes of fortune; and Princeton College, from the limited number of its Faculty, is more so than some others. In the sister establishments of Yale and Harvard, where the Professors are so much more numerous, a casual mediocrity of talent in one or two, is generally compensated by eminence in the rest; but here where a President, two Professors, and two Tutors, form the whole corporation, much more depends upon their individual abilities.

:Upon the President, besides the general superintendence, devolves the instruction of the Students, in Theology, Moral Philosophy, Belles Lettres, and Logic; one of the Professors teaches the Greek and Latin languages, the other Mathematics, Natural Philosophy, and Chemistry....

:Upon the President, besides the general superintendence, devolves the instruction of the Students, in Theology, Moral Philosophy, Belles Lettres, and Logic; one of the Professors teaches the Greek and Latin languages, the other Mathematics, Natural Philosophy, and Chemistry....

:There are at present in this college 150 students; but were the institution established upon a more liberal scale... it is probably from its local advantages, that its students would soon outnumber those of any other American college. Situate[sic] midway between New York and Philadelphia, its proximity to both gives it a decided advantage over both Harvard and Yale. To the immense territory south and west of Philadelphia, it is yet the nearest academical institution of any considerable reputation and will certainly, if other things are equal, obtain a preference to those that are two or three hundred miles farther off. The wealthiest families in the Union, and those who scatter money most lavishly, belong to the southern part of it, and if a University can be supported any where, on a liberal scale, they are able to do it. A young man from Georgia, a student at Princeton, informs me that he spent during the first year upwards of &pound;350 sterling<ref>Roughly equivalent to US $21,000 in 2007</ref>, and probably he was not singular in so profuse an expenditure.<ref>Duncan, John Morison (1923), ''Travels Through Part of the United States and Canada in 1818 and 1819,'' [http://books.google.com/books?vid=0yDcQs6WfPHLapsWNXH&id=xSKgCv18VDEC&pg=PA169&lpg=PA169&dq=%22princeton+college%22&as_brr=1#PPA169,M1 p. 169]</ref>

:There are at present in this college 150 students; but were the institution established upon a more liberal scale... it is probably from its local advantages, that its students would soon outnumber those of any other American college. Situate[sic] midway between New York and Philadelphia, its proximity to both gives it a decided advantage over both Harvard and Yale. To the immense territory south and west of Philadelphia, it is yet the nearest academical institution of any considerable reputation and will certainly, if other things are equal, obtain a preference to those that are two or three hundred miles farther off. The wealthiest families in the Union, and those who scatter money most lavishly, belong to the southern part of it, and if a University can be supported any where, on a liberal scale, they are able to do it. A young man from Georgia, a student at Princeton, informs me that he spent during the first year upwards of &pound;350 sterling,<ref>Roughly equivalent to US $21,000 in 2007</ref> and probably he was not singular in so profuse an expenditure.<ref>Duncan, John Morison (1923), ''Travels Through Part of the United States and Canada in 1818 and 1819,'' [http://books.google.com/books?vid=0yDcQs6WfPHLapsWNXH&id=xSKgCv18VDEC&pg=PA169&lpg=PA169&dq=%22princeton+college%22&as_brr=1#PPA169,M1 p. 169]</ref>

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*[http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7412 DiscoverTheNetworks.org - Princeton University]

*[http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7412 DiscoverTheNetworks.org - Princeton University]

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