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Menu Monday: The Daily Princetonian 84th anniversary banquet, January 15, 1960, at the Nassau Inn. Emmet Hughes ‘41, a former advisor to President Eisenhower and chief foreign correspondent for Time-Life, spoke at the event.
Daily Princetonian General Records (AC285), Box 2
The entire Menu Monday series
Throwback Thursday: For April Fool’s Day in 1927, the Daily Princetonian ran a story about Princeton University becoming coeducational. It was a bit too convincing and it got picked up by other news outlets. They may have missed the clue in the way the story ended: “She was a great admirer of P. T. Barnum and on the occasions of her greatest coups over her masculine rivals was often known to remark that 'there's no fool like an old fool'.”
An entire Girl Scout troop, accompanied by several adults, stared and snapped photos of the frantic students, as Grayson pointed out particular features of pre-med students.
The Daily Princetonian, describing one of a series of pranks pulled on students in their organic chemistry final on May 20, 1977
Bulletin Elm, ca. 1885. Princeton’s preferred method of communicating announcements prior to the 1880s was to tack them to this tree near Nassau Hall. When the tree began to die, efforts were made to try to keep it standing, but it was ultimately removed in 1888. Though posters would still be put up around campus, the main outlet for passing along information became the Princetonian newspaper, which began running a section called “Bulletin Elm” in 1885.
There is a famous face in this photo: James Johnson, who escaped slavery in the 1830s and stood trial in Princeton under the Fugitive Slave Act in the 1840s, stands behind a wheelbarrow toward the right.
Historical Photograph Collection, Grounds and Buildings Series (AC111), Box MP07, Image No. 159.
Tiger Tuesday: This tiger disguised as a turkey wished a “Happy Tiger Thanksgiving” to readers of the Daily Princetonian on November 24, 2015. (Not everything archival is from another century or even another decade; we’re always collecting.)
The entire Tiger Tuesday series
Menu Monday: The Daily Princetonian annual banquet, March 8, 1965. At the banquet, Wall Street Journal editor Bernard Kilgore noted a surge in local newspapers and predicted, “I don’t think we’re going to see such a thing as a real national daily newspaper.”
Daily Princetonian General Records (AC285), Box 2
The entire Menu Monday series
Menu Monday: The Daily Princetonian annual banquet at the Princeton Inn, May 8, 1930. Compared to the menus of a few decades before, this fare, as generous as it was for the Great Depression era, looks a bit sparse.
Daily Princetonian General Records (AC285), Box 2
The entire Menu Monday series
Though Princeton University’s current grading system is more or less on par with most educational institutions in the United States now, this is only one of many systems we’ve used. In the 1870s, class averages were capped at 85, which was not a percentage--100 simply meant the student was the best in the course, and 85 meant an exact middle ranking. (To make matters a little more confusing, the red numbers circled in this sample page from the Registrar’s grade book for 1877 appear to refer to overall ranking within ones graduating class, not a specific course average; for the overall ranking, a lower number meant a higher ranking.) The Princetonian called for a more objective standard on January 11, 1877.
