The Ivy League is an American collegiate athletic conference of eight private research universities in the Northeastern United States. The term Ivy League is used more broadly to refer to the eight schools that belong to the league,which are globally-renowned as elite colleges associated with academic excellence,highly selective admissions,and social elitism. The term was used as early as 1933,and it became official in 1954 following the formation of the Ivy League athletic conference.
Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton,New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey,Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. The institution moved to Newark in 1747,and then to its current campus,nine years later. It officially became a university in 1896 and was subsequently renamed Princeton University.
Walter Philip Reuther was an American leader of organized labor and civil rights activist who built the United Automobile Workers (UAW) into one of the most progressive labor unions in American history. He saw labor movements not as narrow special interest groups but as instruments to advance social justice and human rights in democratic societies. He leveraged the UAW's resources and influence to advocate for workers' rights,civil rights,women's rights,universal health care,public education,affordable housing,environmental stewardship and nuclear nonproliferation around the world. He believed in Swedish-style social democracy and societal change through nonviolent civil disobedience. He cofounded the AFL-CIO in 1955 with George Meany. He survived two attempted assassinations,including one at home where he was struck by a 12-gauge shotgun blast fired through his kitchen window. He was the fourth and longest serving president of the UAW,serving from 1946 until his death in 1970.
The American Whig–Cliosophic Society,sometimes abbreviated as Whig-Clio,is a political,literary,and debating society at Princeton University and the oldest debate union in the United States. Its precursors,the American Whig Society and the Cliosophic Society,were founded at Princeton in 1769 and 1765 by James Madison,William Paterson,Oliver Ellsworth,and Aaron Burr.
The Princeton School of Public and International Affairs is a professional public policy school at Princeton University. The school provides an array of comprehensive coursework in the fields of international development,foreign policy,science and technology,and economics and finance through its undergraduate (AB) degrees,graduate Master of Public Affairs (MPA),Master of Public Policy (MPP),and PhD degrees.
Joshua Brewster Bolten is an American lawyer and politician. Bolten served as the White House chief of staff to U.S. president George W. Bush,replacing Andrew Card on April 14,2006. Previously,he served as the director of the Office of Management and Budget from 2003 to 2006.
The Princeton Quadrangle Club,often abbreviated to "Quad",is one of the eleven eating clubs at Princeton University that remain open. Located at 33 Prospect Avenue,the club is currently "sign-in," meaning it permits any second semester sophomore,junior or senior to join. The club's tradition of openness is demonstrated as far back as 1970,when Quadrangle became one of the first coeducational eating clubs.
Princeton Tower Club is one of the eleven eating clubs at Princeton University in Princeton,New Jersey,United States,and one of six clubs to choose its members through a selective process called bicker. Tower is located at 13 Prospect Avenue between the university-run Campus Club and the Cannon Club. It currently has a membership of approximately 220.
The Daily Princetonian,originally known as The Princetonian and nicknamed the 'Prince',is the independent daily student newspaper of Princeton University. The newspaper is owned by The Daily Princetonian Publishing Co. and boasts a circulation of 2,000 in print and around 30,000 daily online hits as of 2021. Managed by approximately 200 undergraduate students,the newspaper covers a range of sections,including news,sports,and opinions.
Princeton Terrace Club is one of eleven current eating clubs at Princeton University in Princeton,New Jersey,United States. Terrace Club was founded in 1904 and is located at 62 Washington Road. It is the sole Princeton eating club located off Prospect Avenue.
George Edward Brown Jr. was an American Democratic politician from California. He represented suburban portions of Los Angeles County in the United States House of Representatives from 1963 to 1971 and parts of the Inland Empire region from 1973 until his death in 1999. He briefly left office after unsuccessfully running for United States Senate in 1970.
Edwin Wendell Pauley Sr. was an American businessman and political leader.
Larry DuPraz (1919–2006) was the long-time production supervisor of The Daily Princetonian and Princeton University's unofficial "professor of journalism." From 1946 until 1987,DuPraz oversaw production of Princeton's independent student daily newspaper. DuPraz supervised publishing using technology ranging from hot lead type to modern desktop publishing. In this position,DuPraz ran what many alumni and journalists refer to as the "Larry DuPraz School of Journalism," an unofficial academy through which he educated and influenced some of the most important names in American journalism,including:
Princeton University was founded in Elizabeth,New Jersey,in 1746 as the College of New Jersey,shortly before moving into the newly built Nassau Hall in Princeton. In 1783,for about four months Nassau Hall hosted the United States Congress,and many of the students went on to become leaders of the young republic.
The James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions,often called simply the James Madison Program or the Madison Program,is a scholarly institute within the Department of Politics at Princeton University espousing a dedication "to exploring enduring questions of American constitutional law and Western political thought." The Madison Program was founded in 2000 and is directed by Robert P. George,the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University.
George Dashiell Bayard was a career soldier in the United States Army and a general in the Union Army in the American Civil War. He was wounded in the Battle of Fredericksburg and died the next day.
The Princeton Christian Fellowship (PCF),formerly the Princeton Evangelical Fellowship (PEF),is a nondenominational Christian ministry at Princeton University whose purpose is "to help undergraduate and graduate students ... grow as believers and followers of Jesus Christ ... [and] to let the rest of the University community know the full message of Christianity so that others can come to believe and have faith in Jesus Christ." Founded in 1931 by Dr. Donald B. Fullerton,a member of the Princeton University Class of 1913,the PCF is one of the oldest campus ministries of its type,predating the founding of Cru and Intervarsity by a decade or more. PCF is one of the largest student organizations at Princeton University,and is currently led by the Rev. Chris Sallade,a member of the Princeton Class of 1994.
Marver Hillel Bernstein (1919-1990) was an American educator,Jewish lay leader,and the 4th President of Brandeis University. He served as a professor of political science at Princeton University and was its first Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. After retiring from Brandeis,Bernstein was a professor of politics and philosophy at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. He was also former president of the National Federation for Jewish Culture and the American Professors for Peace in the Middle East.
Sally Frank sued the three all-male eating clubs at Princeton University in 1978 for denying her on the basis of her gender. Over ten years later,in 1990 the eating clubs were defined as "public accommodation" and court ordered to become co-ed thanks to Sally Frank,her attorney Nadine Taub and the Women's Rights Litigation Clinic of Rutgers Law School. The eating clubs argued that they were completely private and separate from the university,giving them the right to sex discrimination. After many rounds in the courts,this argument eventually failed. The winning argument stated that the clubs were in fact not separate,and instead functioned as an arm of the university itself. This meant that the clubs were in the end covered by New Jersey's anti-discrimination law and forced to admit women.
Joshua Timothy Katz is an American linguist and classicist who was the Cotsen Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University until May 2022. He is a scholar on the languages,literatures,and cultures of ancient and medieval history. Currently,he is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
