By April C. Armstrong *14
In this week’s installment of our recurring series, locals suggest fencing, students are skeptical of a lecturer, and more.
November 25, 1892—A Princeton student is fined $10 in New Haven, the New Haven Register will report, for leading other Princeton students “in aiding the Yale boys in making the night hideous.”
November 28, 1856—Locals are proposing that an iron fence be erected surrounding the plot for the College presidents’ graves in Princeton Cemetery, “which have been sadly encroached upon.”
November 29, 1925—The General Education Board, a philanthropic organization supported by the Rockefeller family, pledges $1 million (roughly $18 million in 2025 dollars) to support equipment and facilities for research in the physical and biological sciences at Princeton University.
November 30, 1872—The new Lecture Association has taken in a reported $20 from attendance at a lecture, “My Rough and Tumble Experiences in California,” by Thomas De Witt Talmage, the celebrity pastor of the Brooklyn Tabernacle. Talmage’s talk seems to have been received with skepticism, as students write:
The appropriateness of the subject was not so manifest as we would have wished it to be, for according to his own account his California experience was chiefly in connection with palace cars and first class hotels.
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