FOUND in the Harvard Graduate’s Magazine of 1917:
James Hibben, Princeton’s 14th President, was in Cambridge to receive an honorary degree from our rival up north. During his acceptance speech he tells this awful story…
“In the year 1802, Nassau Hall, the oldest of our college buildings, and at the time the only college building, was burned, and there was a loss not only of the building, but of the library and all of the philosophical apparatus, as it was then called. The Board of Trustees made an appeal to the friends of Princeton that in the hour of her distress they would come to relief. The first response to that appeal, and the first contribution to our necessity, came from Harvard University. Not only that, but the then President of Harvard, President Willard, appointed a committee to collect funds in Boston for Princeton.”
That’s right: NASSAU HALL – Old Nassau, our Nassau, the building we give praise to, sing to, salute to – WAS REBUILT WITH HARVARD MONEY. Will you ever be able to look at it the same way again?
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You know those afternoons when you’re feeling bored, and lazy, and vaguely regretful that you didn’t go to Yale? And you decide to kill time / seek reassurance by reading 
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The CIA’s on campus this week searching for new recruits. While I won’t be signing up for an interview (OR WILL I? ESPIONAGE!), their arrival did make me think of my favorite Princeton spook, Jim Thompson, whose life – and death – reads like something straight out of a spy novel.
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Lewis Library — The cavalcade of chairs continues!
John Nash gets a lot of the “Eccentric Princeton Genius” attention nowadays, but he was by no means the first world-famous superbrain to grace our campus. Albert Einstein, the Walter Matthau to Nash’s Russell Crowe, ably held down that position until his death in 1955.