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Princeton University

2009-12-03T05:07:35Z

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'''Princeton University''' is a small private world-class (ref) research university in central New Jersey. It ranked #2 in US News's 2009 "National [[University|Universities]]: Top Schools" list<ref>http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/college/national-search</ref>. It has the highest endowment per student of any school in the world, and competes with Harvard and Yale in the Ivy League, and Stanford as well.

Princeton is extraordinarily difficult to get into, but it offers financial aid to those students who can prove that their parents have sufficiently low income and assets.(ref) Home schooled applicants are welcome; in 2002 one of them became valedictorian, and in 2009 they admitted eleven homeschooled applicants. Princeton is built around its undergraduate college and its small graduate school. [[James Madison]] was the first graduate student. [[Woodrow Wilson]], as president of the school in 1910, tried and failed to bring the two together.(ref) Princeton does not have schools of medicine, law, business or divinity, but does have a schools of engineering and architecture as well as the Woodrow Wilson School for Public Affairs.<ref> [[Princeton Theological Seminary]] nearby is totally separate, as is the Institute for Advanced Study.</ref> The Firestone Library is world famous.

Princeton, in its own words, "simultaneously strives to be one of the leading research universities and the most outstanding undergraduate college in the world."<ref>[http://www.princeton.edu/main/about/ About Princeton], university website: "Princeton simultaneously strives to be one of the leading research universities and the most outstanding undergraduate college in the world. As a research university, it seeks to achieve the highest levels of distinction in the discovery and transmission of knowledge and understanding, and in the education of graduate students. At the same time, Princeton is distinctive among research universities in its commitment to undergraduate teaching."</ref>

==History==
Princeton is old<ref>
Princeton considers itself to be the fourth oldest university in British North America.[http://www.princeton.edu/main/about/history/] Princeton, Penn, Brown, Columbia, Rutgers, and Dartmouth are all roughly the same age, originating within about a two-decade period from 1750 to 1770. Because institutional age is a point of pride, and because there is no firm definition of what constitutes "founding," colleges have a tendency to interpret history in such a way as to yield the earliest possible founding date. Until 1895, Princeton would generally have been considered the fourth oldest, Penn then stating its founding date as 1749, but in 1895 Penn alumni found an interpretation for a founding year of 1740, the date Penn now uses. Thus, Princeton and Penn both claim to be the fourth oldest.
</ref> and famous, founded in 1746 as the "College of New Jersey." It is one of the nine Colonial Colleges (founded before 1776) and one of eight members of the [[Ivy League]].

Princeton was founded to train men who would become "ornaments of the State as well as the Church." It was chartered to trustees representing the New Light (evangelical) wing of the Presbyterian church, but was open to men of any denomination, and had no legal connection with the Church.<ref>[http://www.princeton.edu/pr/facts/revolution.html Princeton in the American Revolution], Princeton website: "The charter was issued to a self-perpetuating board of trustees who were acting in behalf of the evangelical or New Light wing of the Presbyterian Church, but the College had no legal or constitutional identification with that denomination. Its doors were to be open to all students, 'any different sentiments in religion notwithstanding.' The announced purpose of the founders was to train men who would become 'ornaments of the State as well as the Church.'"</ref>

Princeton's original building, Nassau Hall, was the first important college building in the Middle Atlantic colonies. Construction began in 1754 and it was first used in 1756.<ref name=nps>[http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/colonials-patriots/sitec24.htm Nassau Hall], National Park Service</ref> It was named in honor of King William III,<ref name=princetoniana>[http://tigernet.princeton.edu/~ptoniana/nassauhall.asp Nassua Hall], Princeton alumni association website</ref>, King of England from 1689 to 1702, and a Dutch-born member of the house of Orange-Nassau. It was pressed into service in the American Revolution, changed hands several times during the [[Battle of Princeton]], and briefly served as the capital of the United States in 1783<ref name=princetoniana/>. The building, and by extension Princeton itself, are affectionately referred to by Princeton alums as "Old Nassau." ''Old Nassau'' is also the title of Princeton's [[alma mater]], written in 1859<ref>[http://tigernet.princeton.edu/~ptoniana/oldnassau2.asp Old Nassau], history and words, Princeton alumni association website.</ref> John O'Hara once observed that if Harvard men go to heaven, "Princeton men go back to Old Nassau."<ref>O'Hara, John, ''My Turn,'' Newsday, May 8, 1965, as collected in his 1966 book ''My Turn''</ref>

[[Image:Nassau hall princeton u.jpg|thumb|right]]

In the 1900s, prior to the rise of professional football, college football received national attention and Princeton was an important team, with Princeton and Penn being traditional rivals.

It was founded as a Presbyterian institution, and in 1962 became the last of the Ivy League colleges to abolish "compulsory chapel" (required attendance at religious services.)<ref>[http://etcweb.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/mfs/05/Companion/university_chapel.html?15 The University Chapel], Princeton website</ref>

In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Princeton had an historical association with what historian E. Digby Baltzell termed "the WASP establishment." Baltzell noted "the three major upper-class institutions in America have been Harvard, Yale, and Princeton."<ref>Baltzell, E. Digby (1996). Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia. Transaction Publishers. 156000830X. (p. 249, "the three major upper-class institutions...")</ref> Of the three, Princeton was historically the preference of the Southern upper class before the Civil War, and the steel magnates of Pittsburgh during the [[Gilded Age]].<ref>
Encyclopædia Americana, 1833, [http://books.google.com/books?vid=0vOGjiUa56VRRTeq1o4&id=yCCH_BG88JIC&pg=PA1-IA247&lpg=PA1-IA247&dq=princeton&as_brr=1 p. 247]: "The College of New Jersey at Princeton has long and justly maintained a high reputation, and numbers among its alumni many of the most eminent men of the Union, especially in the Southern States."
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Campus life on Princeton during the Roaring Twenties was depicted by [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]] in his novel ''This Side of Paradise.''<ref>[http://www.bartleby.com/115/ This Side of Paradise], online text at Bartleby.com]</ref> A Trenton newspaper columnist wrote that "Fitzgerald described how boozing, social climbing and sex were an accepted part of the college scene. And he refused to draw any moral conclusions... The book would bring flappers, flaming youth and fast living into the American consciousness. In time, Fitzgerald would coin a name for the hectic era—The Jazz Age."<ref>[http://www.capitalcentury.com/1920.html The Capital Century: 1920: Fitzgerald's Own 'Paradise'], Trenton, NJ history website; article by Jon Blackwell</ref>

==Eating clubs==
Princeton has no fraternities; socially, the "eating clubs" fulfill somewhat the same role. They are unusual in that they are truly independent clubs not subject to regulation by the university or any national organization. (While President of Princeton, Woodrow Wilson tried unsuccessfully to abolish the eating clubs.) The eating club tradition became cemented during the years 1899-1910, when the clubs built plush "clubhouses," many on Prospect Avenue, beginning with Ivy Club in 1899.<ref>[http://etcweb.princeton.edu/Campus/chap11.html The Eating Clubs of Prospect Avenue]</ref> Some clubs named by Fitzgerald in ''This Side of Paradise'' include: "Ivy, detached and breathlessly aristocratic; Cottage, an impressive melange of brilliant adventurers and well-dressed philanderers; Tiger Inn, broad-shouldered and athletic, vitalized by an honest elaboration of prep-school standards; Cap and Gown, anti-alcoholic, faintly religious and politically powerful; flamboyant Colonial; [and] literary Quadrangle." The process of selection for eating clubs is known as "bicker." The Daily Princetonian noted that the "time-honored tradition that has been both celebrated and contentious from its beginning." It is contentious because "Bicker has always had an exclusive nature."<ref>[http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2001/02/09/news/2279.shtml Down the 'Street' A history of the Bicker process], Daily Princetonian].</ref> However, today only five of the eleven clubs use bicker to select candidates.

==A peek at Princeton in 1818==
It is sometimes difficult to appreciate how much American universities changed over the course of the nineteenth century. Writing in 1818, a Scot, one John M. Duncan, in a book about his travels through the still-mildly-exotic North American continent, wrote:
:A college was founded here [in Princeton] in the year 1738[sic], which gradually attained to a highly respectable rank as a literary institution... Academical institutions, like those of other kinds, are subject to many vicissitudes of fortune; and Princeton College, from the limited number of its Faculty, is more so than some others. In the sister establishments of Yale and Harvard, where the Professors are so much more numerous, a casual mediocrity of talent in one or two, is generally compensated by eminence in the rest; but here where a President, two Professors, and two Tutors, form the whole corporation, much more depends upon their individual abilities.
:Upon the President, besides the general superintendence, devolves the instruction of the Students, in Theology, Moral Philosophy, Belles Lettres, and Logic; one of the Professors teaches the Greek and Latin languages, the other Mathematics, Natural Philosophy, and Chemistry....
:There are at present in this college 150 students; but were the institution established upon a more liberal scale... it is probably from its local advantages, that its students would soon outnumber those of any other American college. Situate[sic] midway between New York and Philadelphia, its proximity to both gives it a decided advantage over both Harvard and Yale. To the immense territory south and west of Philadelphia, it is yet the nearest academical institution of any considerable reputation and will certainly, if other things are equal, obtain a preference to those that are two or three hundred miles farther off. The wealthiest families in the Union, and those who scatter money most lavishly, belong to the southern part of it, and if a University can be supported any where, on a liberal scale, they are able to do it. A young man from Georgia, a student at Princeton, informs me that he spent during the first year upwards of £350 sterling<ref>Roughly equivalent to US $21,000 in 2007</ref>, and probably he was not singular in so profuse an expenditure.<ref>Duncan, John Morison (1923), ''Travels Through Part of the United States and Canada in 1818 and 1819,'' [http://books.google.com/books?vid=0yDcQs6WfPHLapsWNXH&id=xSKgCv18VDEC&pg=PA169&lpg=PA169&dq=%22princeton+college%22&as_brr=1#PPA169,M1 p. 169]</ref>

==Novels==
Novels have often used Princeton as a setting. They include the "Undergraduate novel" (F. Scott Fitzgerald's ''This Side of Paradise'' and Henry Smith's ''The Gang's All Here''); the "Faculty novel" especially from the 1960s (e.g., Kingley Amis's ''One Fat Englishman'' and John W. Aldridge's ''The Party at Cranton'') and the "Town novel" (e.g., Julian Moynihan's ''Garden State'' and Thomas Baird's ''Losing People'') typifying the 1970's. Two other major novels are Saul Bellow's ''Humboldt's Gift'' (1975) and Carlos Baker's ''A Friend's Power'' (1958).
==Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR)==
see [[Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research]]
== See also ==
*[[Institute for Advanced Study]], a separate institution in Princeton
*[[Princeton Theological Seminary]], a separate school in Princeton

==Notes and references==
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==External Links==
*[http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7412 DiscoverTheNetworks.org - Princeton University]

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Talk:Phyllis Schlafly

2009-12-03T05:05:35Z

Jbwbizzo: /* Her views vs. the American Left */

== Could a sysop please add DEFAULTSORT to this article?==
Please see [[Conservapedia:Manual_of_Style#Persons]] for information regarding this request.

Please add <nowiki>{{DEFAULTSORT: Schlafly, Phyllis}}</nowiki> near the categories, usually near the end of the article. Thanks. [[User:HeartOfGold|<big>H</big>eart<big>O</big>f<big>G</big>old]][[User_talk:HeartOfGold|talk]] 17:18, 20 May 2007 (EDT)

Done.

--[[User:Joaquín Martínez]], [[User talk:Joaquín Martínez|talk]] 17:24, 20 May 2007 (EDT)

==A Choice, Not An Echo==
[[A Choice, Not An Echo]] has an article, which can be linked from this one. [[User:Parrothead|Parrothead]] 19:41, 22 September 2007 (EDT)

== Please unlock this for editing ==

It would be nice if this page was unlocked for editing, as to say the least, it is rather short.--[[User:ElliottRosewater|ElliottRosewater]] 12:34, 17 February 2008 (EST)

: OK, but our [[rules]] will be enforced.--[[User:Aschlafly|Aschlafly]] 12:49, 17 February 2008 (EST)

== "Bunch of losers" ==

It'd be nice if we could also add Mrs. Schlafly's description of the protesters as "a bunch of losers" [http://www.kansascity.com/news/breaking_news/story/620003.html] [[User:Wandering|Wandering]] 22:54, 17 May 2008 (EDT)

: I'm not sure that quote captures the insight and style as well.--[[User:Aschlafly|Aschlafly]] 22:57, 17 May 2008 (EDT)

:: I believe it captures a certain amount of insight into the style of Mrs. Schlafly, so to speak. [[User:Wandering|Wandering]] 23:02, 17 May 2008 (EDT)

==Please unlock==
I found a reference for the first lady designation located [http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-4780636/Conservatives-first-lady-sparked-pro.html here] and would like to add it. Thank you.--[[User:JasonM|JasonM]] 21:53, 5 October 2008 (EDT)

: The references is done. Thank you so much. --[[User:Joaquín Martínez]], [[User talk:Joaquín Martínez|talk]] 07:03, 6 October 2008 (EDT)
==Category Change==
As per the <nowiki>[[Category:Writers]]</nowiki> page, I moved all of the contents to <nowiki>[[Category:Authors]]</nowiki> except for this page. Anyone with unlocking ability wish to take this on? Thanks! [[User:WesleyS|WesleyS]][[User Talk:WesleyS|Hello!]] 20:35, 30 November 2008 (EST)

: Good suggestion. Thanks much and Godspeed.--[[User:Aschlafly|Aschlafly]] 20:38, 30 November 2008 (EST)
::Thanks, Mr. Schlafly. [[User:WesleyS|WesleyS]][[User Talk:WesleyS|Hello!]] 21:00, 30 November 2008 (EST)

==Her views vs. the American Left==

If anyone would like to help me contrast the views of Phyllis Schlafly with the views of the American Left, we can unprotect the article.
*http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/education/story/D00F2F30B4689B3A8625744B00821014?OpenDocument:

People typically just say 'I disagree' or 'Her views are outrageous', but they don't say what they disagree with or why. Maybe they don't even know. --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] [[User talk:Ed Poor|Talk]] 12:50, 10 December 2008 (EST)
:Sure. I know a bit about her views from studying the Goldwater campaign, so perhaps I can be of some use. [[User:RodWeathers|- Rod Weathers]] 12:57, 10 December 2008 (EST)
::I respect her a great deal, but disagree with several of her views and would be willing to contribute to an analysis of them (not as a "representative liberal", but as someone who disagrees on specific issues themselves). The first example that comes to mind is Mrs. Schlafly's view that restraining orders are, in general, unfair to men and a tool of the feminist agenda <ref>http://www.eagleforum.org/column/2008/aug08/08-08-08.html</ref>. Another is her contention that spousal rape is not comparable to rape by a stranger, because when a woman marries she's consented to sex, and as long as no other beatings or violence take place a husband has the right to force a sex act on his wife even when she's unwilling. <ref>http://www.studlife.com/2.3474/1.94406</ref> --[[User:DinsdaleP|DinsdaleP]] 13:17, 10 December 2008 (EST)
:::Dinsdale, we're not here to discuss ''your'' views or disagreements on the matter, but rather her relation to a broad political movement. [[User:RodWeathers|- Rod Weathers]] 13:29, 10 December 2008 (EST)
::::Then I'm happy to stay out of it. The reason I posted here was in response to Ed Poor's statement above that "People typically just say 'I disagree' or 'Her views are outrageous', '''but they don't say what they disagree with or why'''. Maybe they don't even know.". I'm willing to provide some specific examples that are supposedly never provided, but if this is unwelcome then I'll stay out of this. --[[User:DinsdaleP|DinsdaleP]] 13:35, 10 December 2008 (EST)

Are you scared to leave your mom's page editable or something?