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True Life circa 1880: I am a Princeton student & need quarters for my servant!
Friday, 29 January 2010
by Brian No
Wouldn’t it be nice, especially during exams, if someone would just take care of life’s little things? Apparently, Princetonians of yore had just that: private servants. The Princeton Alumni Weekly recently posted on its blog a University tuition bill from 1910 (you can see it here), and one of the expense lines reads “Private Servant”–though