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|endowment=$17.1 billion<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nacubo.org/Documents/research/2011NCSEPublicTablesEndowmentMarketValues319.pdf|title=2011 NACUBO-Commonfund Study of Endowments|accessdate=November 20, 2012}}</ref>|website=http://www.princeton.edu
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|endowment=$26.1 billion (as of 6/30/19)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nacubo.org/-/media/Nacubo/Documents/EndowmentFiles/2019-Endowment-Market-Values--Final-Feb-10.ashx|title=U.S. and Canadian 2019 NTSE Participating Institutions Listed by Fiscal Year 2019 Endowment Market Value, and Percentage Change in Market Value from FY18 to FY19 (PDF)|accessdate=2020-09-06}}</ref></ref>|website=http://www.princeton.edu
 
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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]].  
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Campus life on Princeton during the Roaring Twenties was depicted by [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]] in his novel ''This Side of Paradise.''<ref>[http://www.bartleby.com/115/ This Side of Paradise], online text at Bartleby.com</ref> A Trenton newspaper columnist wrote that "Fitzgerald described how boozing, social climbing and sex were an accepted part of the college scene. And he refused to draw any moral conclusions... The book would bring flappers, flaming youth and fast living into the American consciousness. In time, Fitzgerald would coin a name for the hectic era&mdash;The Jazz Age."<ref>[http://www.capitalcentury.com/1920.html The Capital Century: 1920: Fitzgerald's Own 'Paradise'], Trenton, NJ history website; article by Jon Blackwell</ref>
 
Campus life on Princeton during the Roaring Twenties was depicted by [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]] in his novel ''This Side of Paradise.''<ref>[http://www.bartleby.com/115/ This Side of Paradise], online text at Bartleby.com</ref> A Trenton newspaper columnist wrote that "Fitzgerald described how boozing, social climbing and sex were an accepted part of the college scene. And he refused to draw any moral conclusions... The book would bring flappers, flaming youth and fast living into the American consciousness. In time, Fitzgerald would coin a name for the hectic era&mdash;The Jazz Age."<ref>[http://www.capitalcentury.com/1920.html The Capital Century: 1920: Fitzgerald's Own 'Paradise'], Trenton, NJ history website; article by Jon Blackwell</ref>
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[[Princeton University]] honored [[Woodrow Wilson]], who served as both President of Princeton and of the United States, by naming its public policy school after him.  In 2020, Princeton removed his name from the school.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/27/nyregion/princeton-university-woodrow-wilson.html|title=Princeton Will Remove Woodrow Wilson’s Name From School|first=Bryan|last=Pietsch
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Princeton University honored [[Woodrow Wilson]], who served as both President of Princeton and of the United States, by naming its public policy school after him.  In 2020, Princeton removed his name from the school.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/27/nyregion/princeton-university-woodrow-wilson.html|title=Princeton Will Remove Woodrow Wilson’s Name From School|first=Bryan|last=Pietsch
 
|date=June 27, 2020|work=New York Times|accesdate=2020-09-11}}</ref>
 
|date=June 27, 2020|work=New York Times|accesdate=2020-09-11}}</ref>
  
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