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ON BLOOMSDAY, june 16, 2021, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY’S UBER COOL PROFESSOR, Paul Muldoon WILL BE ZOOMING A 1 HOUR READING OF favorite passages and FORBIDDEN TEXTS FROM BLOOMSDAY BY James Joyce!!
June 1, 2021
Today in Princeton History ….. the signature Princeton Orange color was officially recognized!!!!
On April 8, 1960, The Board of Trustees of Princeton University selected the color that would hereby be the official “Princeton orange.” (Insiders know in 1866, George Ward, a member of the Class of 1869, proposed the color orange in reference to the Prince of Orange, William III of the House of Nassau. The first…
April 8, 2021
Did you know when Bob Dylan accepted an Honorary Degree, campus became flooded with flying insects? TRUE!
Well, that’s kind of how it happened ……
March 31, 2021
Today, Nevada legalized gambling …… Princeton University was an early investor in sin city? (TRUE!)
This article is too fascinating to paraphrase so read all about it here! (If it’s too long for you to read, just get to paragraph seven: “During the 1950s and 1960s, mobsters helped build the Sahara, the Sands, the New Frontier and the Riviera. Money from organized crime combined with funds from more respectable investors—Wall Street banks, union pension funds, the Mormon Church and the Princeton University endowment.”) Did you know Princeton University Investment Company (PRINCO) now oversees the largest per student endowment of any college in the United States …. today it’s about $26.1B AND it’s money managers are among the most diversified in any college campus? TRUE!
March 19, 2021
My Take On Why Jeff Bezos Is Constantly Changing His Day Job ……
I think he’s just livin’ the mission of his alma mater, Princeton University …. in the nation’s service and the service of all humanity. (I really do. If you study this guy, he’s about a lot more than a silly bottom line.) GO JEFF! (Not convinced? Check out his Commencement speech to the Great Class…
March 3, 2021
Private Club Headed to Princeton – 45 Spring Street
In 1903, over 100 explorers, artists, authors, academics, and business adventurers came together at the Savoy Hotel in New York City to meet and exchange stories about travel, adventures, politics, and other significant topics of the day … The Ends of the Earth private club of smartypants continued to meet annually in NYC for thirty years! Over one hundred years later, a similar Ends Of The Earth club is headed to Princeton! (Did you know the Ends of the Earth Brands founders are comprised of Imagineers from Disney and builders of Nike and Marriott? TRUE!)
March 2, 2021
There’s a MONSTER IN LAKE CARNEGIE??!!
On February 18th, 1934, two tigers reported seeing a “sea serpent” thrashing in the icy waters of Princeton University’s Lake Carnegie …… The legend of the “Carnegie Monster” was born! This will become campus lore on and off for a couple decades – y’all know we love the facts as much as the folklore and…
February 18, 2021
Abraham Lincoln Has a Degree from Princeton? TRUE!
On December 27, 1864, President Lincoln wrote to the College of New Jersey in thanks for the honorary degree. Most historians agree the decision to honor President Lincoln was to definitively state the College’s support of the President during the Civil War. Just prior to the outbreak of the war, many students were from the…
December 27, 2020