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This Week in Princeton History for November 28-December 4
In this week’s installment of our recurring series, tensions over the American flag are escalating on campus, Princeton’s president indicates the need to plan to educate women, and more. November 29, 1824—Micah Hawkins’s The Saw Mill or a Yankee Trick, the first American opera on American themes, is performed for the first time in New…
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This Week in Princeton History for November 21-27
In this week’s installment of our recurring series, an unusual Thanksgiving storm brings heavy snow to the area, a Scottish newspaper remarks on the racial composition of the town, and more. November 22, 1967—Joshua Rifkin *70 is at work on two projects: a thesis on an early 16th-century Flemish manuscript, and arranging and conducting the…
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This Week in Princeton History for November 14-20
In this week’s installment of our recurring series, students are setting fashion trends in nearby New York, alumni are memorialized, and more. November 16, 1928—Lynn Carrick, Class of 1920, observes that current students are now setting fashion trends in New York. Suffice it to point to such obvious departures from tradition as that black socks…
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This Week in Princeton History for November 7-13
In this week’s installment of our recurring series, a senior visits the U.S. President, a junior achieves football fame, and more. November 7, 1878—Students “respectfully protest against having recitations and lectures on election day.” November 9, 1937—Fumitaka Konoye ’38 visits U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to deliver a goodwill message from his father, Prince Fumimaro…
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This Week in Princeton History for October 31-November 6
In this week’s installment of our recurring series, a professor urges locals to vote for Abraham Lincoln, a woman attending a football game feels unsettled, and more. October 31, 1864—Mathematics professor John Thomas Duffield, Class of 1841, speaks at a Union meeting in the town’s Mercer Hall. He says he voted against Abraham Lincoln in…
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This Week in Princeton History for October 24-30
In this week’s installment of our recurring series, Cherokee students draw attention, answering machines are becoming popular, and more. October 25, 1838—A letter to the editor of the New York Commercial Advertiser praises the Cherokee Nation’s Ross brothers (John McDonald Ross, Class of 1841; William Potter Ross, Class of 1842; and Robert Daniel Ross, Class…
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This Week in Princeton History for October 17-23
In this week’s installment of our recurring series, a U.S. president visits his student son, a building gets a name, and more. October 17, 1882—Sitting U.S. president Chester Arthur visits his son at Princeton (Chester Alan Arthur II, Class of 1885) and gives a brief address from the steps of James McCosh’s home expressing his…
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This Week in Princeton History for October 10-16
In this week’s installment of our recurring series, Princeton has begun actively seeking Black applicants, a soldier reflects on the American Revolution, and more. October 10, 1964—The Chicago Defender expresses curiosity about what made Princeton University suddenly change course and begin actively recruiting Black students, noting its most recent report to secondary schools includes a…
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This Week in Princeton History for October 3-9
In this week’s installment of our recurring series, posting bills in Trenton gets four students arrested, F. Scott Fitzgerald is not doing well, and more. October 3, 1970—A dozen state and local feminist groups, in their first general convention, join to discuss the basic issues of the women’s rights movement in the Princeton Inn. The…
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This Week in Princeton History for September 26-October 2
In this week’s installment of our recurring series, Jewish students set aside a day for volunteering, an alum causes a stir with a political speech, and more. September 27, 1998—The Center for Jewish Life hosts “Mitzvah Day,” sending four groups of students out on local volunteer projects. There is high participation among students, organizers believe,…
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