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Tag: Jadwin Gym

  • This Week in Princeton History for January 30-February 5

    In this week’s installment of our ongoing series bringing you the history of Princeton University and its faculty, students, and alumni, an investigation of a masked swordsman begins, a graduate carries the Olympic torch, and more. January 30, 1805—The faculty of the College of New Jersey meet “to make inquiry concerning a mask & sword…

  • This Week in Princeton History for February 29-March 6

    In this week’s installment of our ongoing series bringing you the history of Princeton University and its faculty, students, and alumni, Ethel Barrymore is on campus, undergraduates head to Washington to celebrate a presidential inauguration, and more. March 1, 1969—The new Jadwin Gym is dedicated at a Harvard-Yale-Princeton track meet. March 2, 1931—Ethel Barrymore appears…