Editor's Note: Shortly after Khruschev resigned power in the Soviet Union, the 'Prince' interviewed George F.
George F. Kennan '25 was crying. He browsed the pages of F. Scott Fitzgerald '17's "The Great Gatsby," moved by its descriptions of a Midwesterner's life in the Northeast.I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known . . . They were careless people, Tom and Daisy ? they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together.Fitzgerald's "This Side of Paradise" lured Kennan to Princeton ? climbing with clear blue aspiration, the great dreaming spires of Holder and Cleveland towers ? but he found himself ill-suited to the elitism of the eating club system and the rigor of the coursework.As recalled in a biography of the men who created the U.S.
The first time I set out to find George F. Kennan '25, in 1982, I had just turned 21, begun my final semester at Princeton University and noticed with astonishment that the senior thesis deadline had crept to within four months.
The University announced last week that it will increase the size of the student body sooner and more gradually than originally planned by aiming to enroll 28 additional students in the Class of 2009.The increase ? which will bring the class population to 1,226 students ? is part of a plan to increase the student body by 11 percent by 2012.Under the revised expansion plan, approved by the Trustee Executive Committee on Feb.
Almost a decade and a half after the Soviet Union collapsed, George F. Kennan '25, the celebrated diplomat and historian whose ideas became the foundation of American cold war policy, died Thursday in his Princeton home.
Outside Frick Laboratory, a member of the men's track team prepares for a unique race. Dressed as Zorro and wielding a plastic sword, he races a fuse burning its way down a strip of aluminum foil covered in gun powder.This is not the filming of a low-budget remake of the "Mask of Zorro"; it's CHM 215.The gunpowder race is part of the course taught by chemistry professors Robert Cava and Robert Pascal.
Joining hands to dance in circles, students, faculty and community members gathered for an evening of Israeli folk-dancing at the Carl A.
The Rev. Dr. Iain Torrance, a Scotsman who has served as president of the Princeton Theological Seminary for the past nine months, will be officially inaugurated this afternoon.
Brett Dakin '98 tried to leave suits and ties behind when he graduated from Princeton.Now a lawyer in New York City, Dakin was clad in traditional business attire when he read from his book in Robertson Hall on Wednesday.
Recalling childhoods spent on the streets of Newark and Atlantic City and family members lost to drugs and crime, four inmates from state prisons spoke to members of the University community last night in McCosh.
Melting clocks, jousting knights, potato-chip packages, Victoria's Secret. Sound more interesting than a day in Firestone?
Teach for America (TFA), the organization founded by Wendy Kopp '89 to enlist college graduates as teachers in underprivileged schools across the country, received a 29 percent increase in applications this year.Princeton has supplied low numbers of applications to TFA in past years, but this year 94 students ? eight percent of the senior class ? applied.
To bring a modern-day perspective to 19th century modes of residential planning, architecture school graduates Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk '72 and her husband Andres Duany '71 took to the drawing board.Their critique of traditional suburban development took shape as New Urbanism, a movement whose influence is felt in urban planning offices across the nation."[New Urbanism] is based on a pragmatic consideration of what works best in the long-run in terms of the human habitat," Duany said.The movement seeks to promote urban environmental responsibility, social integration and economic stability, Plater-Zyberk said.
A slim, brown-haired model made her way to the front of the studio at 185 Nassau and dropped her bathrobe.
"Somewhere in La Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember, a gentleman lived not long ago, one of those who has a lance and ancient shield on a shelf and keeps a skinny nag and a greyhound for racing." So begins the most famous novel of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, "Don Quijote de la Mancha."Tuesday afternoon, these words echoed through the octagonal sidings and stained-glass windows of the Chancellor Green Rotunda in a language far from home: Arabic.The occasion was the first day of the celebration of Don Quixote's 400th anniversary, "Book Errant: 400 Years Reading Don Quixote," organized by the department of Spanish and Portuguese.
The certificate program known as "Women's Studies" has a naming problem.It's actually the "Program in the Study of Women and Gender," but the "gender" aspect often gets left out, and the abbreviation in the course guide is an intimidating "WOM."This may be one reason why so few male students take these courses.
A senior North Korean envoy to the United Nations (U.N.) cancelled a visit to the University this week following instructions from officials in Pyongyang, the professor coordinating the event said Wednesday.Han Song-Ryol, the deputy permanent representative to the U.N.
Wilson School Dean Anne-Marie Slaughter '80, a member of the Congressionally-backed Task Force on the United Nations (U.N.), has been denied a visa to participate in a fact-finding mission in the Sudanese region of Darfur.Slaughter was scheduled to leave on March 4 to lead a team of foreign policy experts investigating atrocities in the region, where the U.S.
Voluntary contributions to the University totaled $125 million during the 2004 fiscal year, a decline of more than $100 million from the previous year, according to a report released last week by the Council for Aid to Education.Princeton ranked 32nd among all surveyed institutions and 16th among private universities.
As the number of students with cell phones continues to increase, some have wondered if the room phone may become just another part of the University's rich historical tradition.Nearly nine in 10 college students now have cell phones, according to the Student Monitor, a market research firm in Ridgewood.Instead of ignoring this trend, telecommunications at OIT is changing with it."We don't view the use of cell phones as a combative issue," said David Wirth, the technical operations manager of telecommunications at OIT.
