Princeton Reflections [antikvár]

Introduction The face of Princeton is ever changing. It grows older, with character and with grace; and it grows younger, as newfeatures rise to dot its landscape. As the home of one of the world's great universities, the campus has no choice but to change.And yet there is something unchanging about Princeton. The words and pictures of earlier times may seem quaint, but they strike a responsive chord. While any effort to freeze the image forever is doomed to failure, there is something enduring that can be captured.This book endeavors to capture that something for this generation. It is designed for those who know Princeton now and those who shall come to know her, including those of posterity who will turn to these pages in their time to assuage their curiosities about what has come before them.For nearly half a century, Nassau Hall housed the entire College of New Jersey. But over the next two hundred years, through its evolution into a university of world renown, Princeton expanded in many ways. It now covers more than two thousand acres, of which roughly two hundred comprise the main campus. A wealth of architectural styles is displayed, ranging from theOpposite: stone vaulting on the eastern en- oldest colonial buildings to the predominantly Gothic dormitories,