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Miriam Dube


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This Week in History: Grades Lost in Transit

While submitting an essay today often simply involves sending an email or hitting submit on Canvas, this wasn't always the case. This week in history, the ‘Prince’ explores an incident from 1985 in which a German professor lost his students’ final papers, and left University officials scrambling to find a satisfactory way to assign final grades to the students involved.


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Faith, freedom, and film: The legacy of Princeton’s blue laws

In 1947, bound by New Jersey’s “Blue Laws,” Princetonians struggled to fill their long Sundays with secular activities. At the time, Mercer County residents were prohibited from conducting commercial activity during the Christian Sunday Sabbath, unable to engage in nonessential travel and leisure. 

In 1947, bound by New Jersey’s “Blue Laws,” Princetonians struggled to fill their long Sundays with secular activities. At the time, Mercer County residents were prohibited from conducting commercial activity during the Christian Sunday Sabbath, unable to engage in nonessential travel and leisure. 


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