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This Week in Princeton History for December 3-9
In this week’s installment of our recurring series bringing you the history of Princeton University and its faculty, students, and alumni, construction of the Halstead Observatory is underway, Gloria Steinem urges Princetonians to do something outrageous daily, and more. December 3, 1867—The New York Tribune reports that Princeton’s Halsted Observatory is almost ready to have…
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Ivy Hall Library and Higher Education for Princeton Women in the 1870s
As Princeton University celebrates 50 years of undergraduate women, it is worth looking back a bit farther to examine how women pursued higher education in town prior to the mid-twentieth century. A variety of options have been available to Princeton’s women over the century that preceded the first female undergraduate admission in 1969. Some of…
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This Week in Princeton History for November 26-December 2
In this week’s installment of our recurring series bringing you the history of Princeton University and its faculty, students, and alumni, graduates react to the possible admission of female undergraduates, a dean’s comments in a local newspaper arouse concern, and more. November 26, 1968—The Princeton Alumni Weekly prints several letters responding to the Patterson Report,…
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Redefining Old Nassau: Women and the Shaping of Modern Princeton
By Michelle Peralta This academic year marks the 50th anniversary of the decision of the Board of Trustees to admit women to Princeton as undergraduates. To celebrate this landmark, the Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library is pleased to present “Redefining Old Nassau: Women and the Shaping of Modern Princeton.” Maria Katzenbach ‘76 gave an account…
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This Week in Princeton History for November 19-25
In this week’s installment of our recurring series bringing you the history of Princeton University and its faculty, students, and alumni, confusion arises over the date Thanksgiving should be celebrated, a plagiarized editorial weighs in on Anita Hill’s testimony, and more. November 20, 1807—The faculty appoint a committee “to arrange the library and to draw…
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This Week in Princeton History for November 12-18
In this week’s installment of our recurring series bringing you the history of Princeton University and its faculty, students, and alumni, the first formal exercises open in Nassau Hall, an alum announces a donation in honor of a former roommate, and more. November 13, 1762—The first formal exercises to be held there open in the completed…
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This Week in Princeton History for November 5-11
In this week’s installment of our recurring series bringing you the history of Princeton University and its faculty, students, and alumni, college football gets its start, town and gown celebrate the end of World War I, and more. November 5, 2001—A hazmat team comes to the Woodrow Wilson School to remove a suspicious letter mailed…
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This Week in Princeton History for October 29-November 4
In this week’s installment of our recurring series bringing you the history of Princeton University and its faculty, students, and alumni, the Art Museum reopens in a modernized environment, the football team’s stunning victory over Penn sparks a riot, and more. October 29, 1966—The Princeton University Art Museum reopens in its new home in a…
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This Week in Princeton History for October 22-28
In this week’s installment of our recurring series bringing you the history of Princeton University and its faculty, students, and alumni, police arrest 31 protesters, Woodrow Wilson is inaugurated Princeton’s president, and more. October 22, 1945—At a brief ceremony in the Faculty Room of Nassau Hall, Princeton’s president, Harold W. Dodds, confers 20 undergraduate degrees,…
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Selections from Women’s World Banking Records Now Available Online
By Amanda Ferrara Mudd Manuscript Library is pleased to announce the completion of the Women’s World Banking records digitization project. Women’s World Banking (WWB), founded in 1979, is a not-for-profit international financial institution, committed to facilitating the participation of low-income women entrepreneurs in the modern economy at the local level. The WWB’s records document the…
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