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Firestone Library, Princeton Library
Joseph Henry House House
Princeton University Art Museum Museums
Princeton University Chapel Chapel

Objects of Art

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Princeton's Rittenhouse Orrery Orrery

Timeline

Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1746/00/00 Aaron Burr Sr Founder Aaron Burr, Thomas Clap, Jonathan Dickinson and Jonathan Edwards establish the College of New Jersey (Princeton University) in Elizabeth, New Jersey. Creation of Higher Education in the United States
1746/00/00 Jonathan Edwards Founder Jonathan Edwards and three other men establish the College of New Jersey (Princeton University) in Elizabeth, New Jersey. Creation of Higher Education in the United States
1763/00/00 Oliver Ellsworth Education Oliver Ellsworth transferres to the College of New Jersey in Princeton.
1830/00/00 Moses Woodruff Dodd Education Moses Woodruff Dodd attends Princeton.
1902/06/00 Woodrow Wilson Work Woodrow Wilson is elected President of Princeton University. He will raise admission standards, remove the "gentleman's C" tradition and reorganize the school in the Preceptorial System, which provides opportunity for individual instruction.
1907/00/00 Woodrow Wilson Work In the Princeton Alumni Weekly, Wilson introduces the Quad Plan which coordinates social and academic life by establishing residential colleges, or quadrangles, for all undergraduates instead of the current freshman and sophomore system.
1913/09/24 F Scott Fitzgerald Education At his Princeton interview, Scott persuades the admissions committee that it would be cruel for them to deny him entrance on his birthday. FSG wires home: ADMITTED SEND FOOTBALL PADS AND SHOES IMMEDIATELY PLEASE WAIT TRUNK
1923/00/00 Horatio Gates Lloyd Education Horatio Gates Lloyd graduates from Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey.
1928/09/00 James Stewart Education Jimmy Stewart enrolls at Princeton in the fall of 1928. Majoring in architecture, Stewart will become a member of the Princeton Charter Club.

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Particulars for Princeton University:
Education College Campus
Sight Category Historic District
Institution of Higher Education University



Creative Works »

WorkTypeAsNotedInCreatorNote
Head and Shoulders (short story) Short Story F Scott Fitzgerald My father was a young economics professor at Princeton.

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