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When I was in college, we didn't have Facebook, we had the phone book. And we did not use Twitter. We used good old-fashioned gossip. If you wanted to talk about someone, you could do it face to face, right behind their back. Have we forgotten the beauty of a handwritten letter, lovingly delivered three to six weeks later? Do we no longer need the encyclopedia? Almost pounds of readily accessible knowledge? We have lost touch with our simpler selves, and by "we" I mean you.

Could we, for just a moment, embrace our analog past? Is it possible to escape the constant barrage of electronic information? Wouldn't it be nice to not receive 17 emails a day from Michael Yaroshefsky? A few years ago, I bought a tiny, year-old general store in Massachusetts. A Norman Rockwell study.

Here, kids buy penny candy and ice cream, their parents drop by for a cup of coffee, and to say hello to their neighbors. It is a place of community. A place of true human connection and kinship. When it came up for sale, there was a real danger that this wonderful piece of history would cease to exist, so I bought it. But I didn't buy it for financial gain. God knows, there's not a lot of money in penny candy. And I didn't buy it to preserve it as a local landmark. I bought this quaint little anachronism because I wanted people to think I was a really nice guy.

A kind, generous, giving man, who cares about history, and about the people in this little Massachusetts town. I am not that man, but fortunately, people think that I am. Heroism is not about doing heroic things, heroism is about how heroic other people believe you to be. I could go visit some sick children in the hospital Who would I really be helping aside from those in need? If a tree falls in the woods, and no one is there, does the tree get credit?

What does it do for the tree? Doug Davis is a hero. He scored a buzzer-beating shot to defeat Harvard and win the Ivy League. Do we need to examine Doug Davis' motivations in winning that game? Does Doug Davis strive for excellence selflessly? Or, does he do great things for the recognition, the accolades and the reverence, like a normal human being?

I can't answer that, because I don't know Doug Davis. Doug Davis doesn't even sound like a real name. But I would venture to guess that Doug Davis seeks the love of others, because he has not yet learned to love himself. When I was about to graduate from college, I was preparing to enter law school. I remember that I was filling out my application to Stanford, and I came to the essay question, which was: My parents had worked extraordinarily hard to give me a great education, and I felt that I owed them some sort of valid career choice.

So I sat down with my folks, and asked them what they thought, and they proceeded to give me the best advice that I had ever received, or would ever receive. Their words were profound, wise, and they completely altered the rest of my life. Ultimately that was the right choice for me. I wouldn't have been happy as an attorney, and they knew it. They also understood that it was my future, my life. They very wisely advised me to do what I knew I already wanted to do.

As Harry Truman once said, "The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want, and then advise them to do it. In conclusion, I would like to leave you with a few random thoughts. Not advice per se, but some helpful hints. June 4, 2: I don't aspire to change the world with my words this morning. What do we learn from this exercise? We learn that nobody looks each other in the eyes anymore. My point is, I suffered. You should have to suffer, too. What is her problem? And that's what we need more of these days: But that, of course, is purely conjecture.

Show up on time. Because to be late is to show disrespect. Remember that the words "regime" and "regimen" are not interchangeable. Get a dog, because cats are lame. That year, Wilson College was established to cap a series of alternatives to the eating clubs. Fierce debates raged before the present residential college system emerged.

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The plan was first attempted at Yale, but the administration was initially uninterested; an exasperated alum, Edward Harkness , finally paid to have the college system implemented at Harvard in the s, leading to the oft-quoted aphorism that the college system is a Princeton idea that was executed at Harvard with funding from Yale.

Princeton has one graduate residential college, known simply as the Graduate College, located beyond Forbes College at the outskirts of campus. Wilson preferred a central location for the College; West wanted the graduate students as far as possible from the campus. The attached New Graduate College departs in its design from Collegiate Gothic; it is reminiscent of the former dormitories of Butler College, the newest of the five pre-Whitman residential colleges.

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Today, the Triangle Club performs its annual freshmen revue, fall show, and Reunions performances in McCarter. McCarter is also recognized as one of the leading regional theaters in the United States. The Princeton University Art Museum was established in to give students direct, intimate, and sustained access to original works of art that complement and enrich instruction and research at the university. This continues to be a primary function, along with serving as a community resource and a destination for national and international visitors.

Numbering over 92, objects, the collections range from ancient to contemporary art and concentrate geographically on the Mediterranean regions, Western Europe, China, the United States, and Latin America. There is a collection of Greek and Roman antiquities , including ceramics , marbles, bronzes, and Roman mosaics from faculty excavations in Antioch. Medieval Europe is represented by sculpture, metalwork, and stained glass. One of the best features of the museums is its collection of Chinese art, with important holdings in bronzes, tomb figurines, painting, and calligraphy.

Its collection of pre-Columbian art includes examples of Mayan art, and is commonly considered to be the most important collection of pre-Columbian art outside of Latin America. The museum has collections of old master prints and drawings and a comprehensive collection of over 27, original photographs.

African art and Northwest Coast Indian art are also represented. The Museum also oversees the outdoor Putnam Collection of Sculpture. Ralph Adams Cram, the University's supervising architect, designed the Chapel, which he viewed as the crown jewel for the Collegiate Gothic motif he had championed for the campus. The design evokes an English church of the Middle Ages. The Chapel seats almost 2, Princeton university has several apartment facilities for graduate students and their dependents. Published in , Princeton's Sustainability Plan highlights three priority areas for the University's Office of Sustainability: Energy without the purchase of offsets.

Food The student organization "Greening Princeton" seeks to encourage the University administration to adopt environmentally friendly policies on campus. This decline prompted The Princetonian to write a series of articles on the decline and its reasons. Pam of The New York Observer wrote that Princeton was "long dogged by a reputation for anti-Semitism " and that this history as well as Princeton's elite status caused the university and its community to feel sensitivity towards the decrease of Jewish students. The Trustees of Princeton University, a member board, is responsible for the overall direction of the University.

It approves the operating and capital budgets, supervises the investment of the University's endowment and oversees campus real estate and long-range physical planning. The trustees also exercise prior review and approval concerning changes in major policies, such as those in instructional programs and admission, as well as tuition and fees and the hiring of faculty members. Undergraduates fulfill general education requirements, choose among a wide variety of elective courses, and pursue departmental concentrations and interdisciplinary certificate programs. Required independent work is a hallmark of undergraduate education at Princeton.

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Students graduate with either the Bachelor of Arts A. The graduate school offers advanced degrees spanning the humanities , social sciences , natural sciences , and engineering. Doctoral education is available in most disciplines. Undergraduate courses in the humanities are traditionally either seminars or lectures held 2 or 3 times a week with an additional discussion seminar that is called a "precept. Nonetheless, in the spirit of a liberal arts education, both enjoy a comparatively high degree of latitude in creating a self-structured curriculum.

Undergraduates agree to adhere to an academic integrity policy called the Honor Code, established in Under the Honor Code, faculty do not proctor examinations; instead, the students proctor one another and must report any suspected violation to an Honor Committee made up of undergraduates. The Committee investigates reported violations and holds a hearing if it is warranted.

An acquittal at such a hearing results in the destruction of all records of the hearing; a conviction results in the student's suspension or expulsion. Princeton's undergraduate program is highly selective, admitting 6. In September , the university announced that all applicants for the Class of would be considered in a single pool, effectively ending the school's early decision program. In , expanding on earlier reforms, Princeton became the first university to eliminate loans for all students who qualify for financial aid.

In addition, all admissions are need-blind. In , Nancy Weiss Malkiel, the Dean of the College, implemented a grade deflation policy to curb the number of A-range grades undergraduates received. They argue further that as other schools purposefully inflate their grades, [] Princeton students' GPAs will look low by comparison. Further, studies have shown that employers prefer high grades even when they are inflated. The policy deflates grades only relative to their previous levels; indeed, as of , or five years after the policy was instituted, the average graduating GPA saw a marginal decrease, from 3.

The Graduate School has about 2, students in 42 academic departments and programs in social sciences, engineering, natural sciences, and humanities. In , it received nearly 11, applications for admission and accepted around 1, applicants. Princeton has no medical school , law school , business school , or school of education. A short-lived Princeton Law School folded in It offers professional graduate degrees in architecture, engineering, finance, and public policy, the last through the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs , founded in as the School of Public and International Affairs and renamed in after university president and U.

The Princeton University Library system houses over eleven million holdings [] including seven million bound volumes. Its collections include the autographed manuscript of F. Kennan 's Long Telegram. In addition to Firestone library, specialized libraries exist for architecture, art and archaeology, East Asian studies, engineering, music, public and international affairs, public policy and university archives, and the sciences.

In an effort to expand access, these libraries also subscribe to thousands of electronic resources. In February , Princeton became the 12th major library system to join Google's ambitious project to scan the world's great literary works and make them searchable over the Web. USNWR graduate school rankings []. USNWR departmental rankings []. From through the current edition, Princeton University was ranked either first or second among national universities by U.

Princeton was ranked first in the most recent U. News rankings, in which the four-point gap between Princeton's raw score of and second-ranked Harvard's raw score of 96 represented the largest gap between the first- and second-ranked national universities in the history of the U.

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Princeton also was ranked 1 in the , , , and rankings for "best undergraduate teaching. In the "America's Top Colleges" rankings by Forbes in , Princeton University was ranked third among all national colleges and universities, after holding the number one position for a number of years. In the U. In Princeton Review' s rankings of "softer" aspects of students' college experience, Princeton University was ranked first in "Students Happy with Financial Aid" and third in "Happiest Students", behind Clemson and Brown.

PEI was started in The Princeton Environmental Institute has the following research centers: University housing is guaranteed to all undergraduates for all four years. More than 98 percent of students live on campus in dormitories. The actual dormitories are comparable, but only residential colleges have dining halls. Nonetheless, any undergraduate may purchase a meal plan and eat in a residential college dining hall. Recently, upperclassmen have been given the option of remaining in their college for all four years.

Juniors and seniors also have the option of living off-campus, but high rent in the Princeton area encourages almost all students to live in university housing. Undergraduate social life revolves around the residential colleges and a number of coeducational eating clubs , which students may choose to join in the spring of their sophomore year.

Eating clubs, which are not officially affiliated with the university, serve as dining halls and communal spaces for their members and also host social events throughout the academic year. Princeton's six residential colleges host a variety of social events and activities, guest speakers, and trips. The residential colleges also sponsor trips to New York for undergraduates to see ballets, operas, Broadway shows, sports events, and other activities.

The eating clubs, located on Prospect Avenue, are co-ed organizations for upperclassmen. Most upperclassmen eat their meals at one of the eleven eating clubs. Additionally, the clubs serve as evening and weekend social venues for members and guests. It also hosts the Princeton Invitational Speech and Debate tournament each year at the end of November. Princeton also runs Princeton Model Congress, an event that is held once a year in mid-November. The 4-day conference has high school students from around the country as participants.

Although the school's admissions policy is need blind , Princeton, based on the proportion of students who receive Pell Grants, was ranked as a school with little economic diversity among all national universities ranked by U. Princeton supports organized athletics at three levels: It also provides "a variety of physical education and recreational programs" for members of the Princeton community.

According to the athletics program's mission statement, Princeton aims for its students who participate in athletics to be "'student athletes' in the fullest sense of the phrase. Princeton's colors are orange and black. The school's athletes are known as Tigers , and the mascot is a tiger. The Princeton administration considered naming the mascot in , but the effort was dropped in the face of alumni opposition. Its athletic conference is the Ivy League.

Princeton hosts 38 men's and women's varsity sports. Princeton's football team has a long and storied history.

Princeton played against Rutgers University in the first intercollegiate football game in the U. By a score of 6—4, Rutgers won the game, which was played by rules similar to modern rugby. The men's basketball program is noted for its success under Pete Carril , the head coach from to The men's water polo team is currently a dominant force in the Collegiate Water Polo Association, having reached the Final Four in two of the last three years.

Similarly, the men's lacrosse program enjoyed a period of dominance —, during which time it won six national championships. In addition to varsity sports, Princeton hosts about 35 club sports teams.

Each year, nearly teams participate in intramural sports at Princeton. Several leagues with differing levels of competitiveness are available. Notable among a number of songs commonly played and sung at various events such as commencement , convocation , and athletic games is Princeton Cannon Song , the Princeton University fight song. Bob Dylan wrote "Day of The Locusts" for his album New Morning about his experience of receiving an honorary doctorate from the University. It is a reference to the negative experience he had and it mentions the Brood X cicada infestation Princeton experienced that June Its words were written that year by a freshman, Harlan Page Peck, and published in the March issue of the Nassau Literary Review the oldest student publication at Princeton and also the second oldest undergraduate literary magazine in the country.

The words and music appeared together for the first time in Songs of Old Nassau , published in April Before the Langlotz tune was written, the song was sung to Auld Lang Syne ' s melody, which also fits. However, Old Nassau does not only refer to the university's anthem.

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When built, it was the largest college building in North America. It served briefly as the capitol of the United States when the Continental Congress convened there in the summer of By metonymy , the term can refer to the university as a whole. Finally, it can also refer to a chemical reaction that is dubbed " Old Nassau reaction " because the solution turns orange and then black. Alumnus Jerome Powell was appointed as Chair of the U. Federal Reserve Board in Princeton graduates played a major role in the American Revolution , including the first and last Colonels on the Patriot side Philip Johnston and Nathaniel Scudder , as well as the highest ranking civilian leader on the British side David Mathews.

Jackson , former Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. Soccer-player alumna, Diana Matheson , scored the game-winning goal that earned Canada their Olympic bronze medal in Writers Booth Tarkington , F. Scott Fitzgerald , and Eugene O'Neill attended but did not graduate. Selden Edwards and Will Stanton graduated with English degrees.

American novelist Jodi Picoult graduated in Notable faculty members include P. George , and Andrew Wiles. Lewis , and alumnus Woodrow Wilson , who also served as president of the University — Albert Einstein , though on the faculty at the Institute for Advanced Study rather than at Princeton, came to be associated with the university through frequent lectures and visits on the campus.

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This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. List of Princeton University people. Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania both claim the fourth oldest founding date and the University of Pennsylvania once claimed as its founding date, making it fifth oldest, but in its trustees adopted a resolution which asserted as the founding date.

However, Princeton has never done so and a Princeton historian says that the facts "do not warrant" such an interpretation.

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